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Ageitos, Noa; Puig, Blanca; Colucci-Gray, Laura – Science & Education, 2019
This article focuses on students' discursive moves and reasoning practices while engaged in a task that requires making explanatory links between sickle cell disease and malaria. Both diseases pertain to key areas of the biology curriculum, namely, genetic variability and natural selection, and are connected to the theory of evolution of living…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Evolution, Thinking Skills, Diseases
van Dijk, Esther M.; Reydon, Thomas A. C. – Science & Education, 2010
In this paper we present a schematic overview of the central concepts in evolutionary theory, setting them off against the background of widespread misconceptions about them. Our aim is to provide high school teachers with (1) an overview of those particular concepts that they can expect students to have difficulties with, (2) a comparison of…
Descriptors: Evolution, Scientific Concepts, Secondary School Teachers, Science Teachers
Kampourakis, Kostas; Zogza, Vasso – Science & Education, 2007
In this paper, the main points of Lamarck's and Darwin's theoretical conceptual schemes about evolution are compared to those derived from 15 years old students' explanations of evolutionary episodes. We suggest that secondary students' preconceptions should not be characterized as "Lamarckian", because they are essentially different from the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Misconceptions, Evolution, Science Education