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ERIC Number: EJ509083
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1995
Pages: N/A
Abstractor: N/A
Reference Count: 0
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0045-0855
A Predict-Observe-Explain Teaching Sequence for Learning about Students' Understanding of Heat and Expansion Liquids.
Liew, Chong Wah; Treagust, David F.
Australian Science Teachers Journal, v41 n1 p68-71 Mar 1995
Eighteen year-11 physics students were taught heat and expansion of liquids using a predict-observe-explain sequence. Argues that the data demonstrate how students' prior knowledge and beliefs can affect their observations and interpretations of new learning. (Author/MKR)
Descriptors: Heat, High School Students, Physics, Science Activities, Science Education, Science Instruction, Science Process Skills, Science Teachers, Secondary Education, Secondary School Science, Teaching Methods
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers: Science Education Research