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Griffiths, Alan K.; Barman, Charles R. – 1992
The substantial interest exhibited in the last decade in the identification of students' misconceptions of a wide range of scientific concepts has not extended to identification of students' misconceptions of the nature of science itself. This study examined the attitudes of 32 secondary school students, each from Canada, the United States, and…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Foreign Countries