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ERIC Number: EJ523672
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1996
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0036-8326
Learning the Scientific "Story": A Case Study in the Teaching and Learning of Elementary Thermodynamics.
Arnold, Michael; Millar, Robin
Science Education, v80 n3 p249-81 Jun 1996
Describes and discusses an approach to teaching elementary thermodynamics that focuses on promoting and consolidating conceptual change in the classroom toward the accepted scientific view. Reports that this approach enabled a significant proportion of the student group involved to demonstrate understanding of the key ideas as evidenced in postinstruction interviews and a delayed posttest. Contains 32 references. (JRH)
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Strategies, Models, Scientific Concepts, Teaching Methods, Thermodynamics
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Analogies; Conceptual Change