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Beyond Explanations: What Else Do Students Need to Understand Science?
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Hamza, Karim M.; Wickman, Per-Olof – Science Education, 2009
Students' difficulties with learning science have generally been framed in terms of their generalized conceptual knowledge of a science topic as elicited through their explanations of natural phenomena. In this paper, we empirically explore what more goes into giving a scientific account of a natural phenomenon than giving such generalized…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Scientific Concepts, Chemistry
Describing and Analyzing Learning in Action: An Empirical Study of the Importance of Misconceptions in Learning Science
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Hamza, Karim M.; Wickman, Per-Olof – Science Education, 2008
Although misconceptions in science have been established in interview studies, their role during the learning process is poorly examined. In this paper, we use results from a classroom study to analyze to what extent nonscientific ideas in electrochemistry that students report in interviews enter into their learning in a more authentic setting. We…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Learning Experience, Misconceptions, Science Instruction