A Longitudinal Classroom Study of Mechanics Concepts and Conceptual Change.

Autor/inn/en	De Jong, Eddy J.; Gunstone, Richard F.
Titel	A Longitudinal Classroom Study of Mechanics Concepts and Conceptual Change.
Quelle	(1988), (34 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Cognitive Processes; Cognitive Restructuring; Cognitive Structures; Concept Formation; Foreign Countries; Mechanics (Physics); Science Education; Science Instruction; Secondary Education; Secondary School Science; Student Attitudes; Teaching Methods + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Cognitive structure; Kognitive Struktur; Concept learning; Begriffsbildung; Ausland; Mechanik; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Sekundarbereich; Schülerverhalten; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode
Abstract	The broad focus of this study was on the role students' existing conceptions play in the process of constructing and understanding mechanics concepts. The study was a naturalistic one, conducted over a number of years, at all grade levels, in one all-boys secondary school in Australia. In particular it was concerned with identifying and representing students' existing conceptions, and investigating aspects of the process of conceptual change in classroom learning. A restructuring of teaching approach preceded the investigations of conceptual change. Alternative conceptions were found to be common and complex. Subsequent conceptual change was often, but not universally, achieved. At the level of individual students, this change was idiosyncratic, complex, and often unpredictable. Some change resulted in more sophisticated alternative conceptions. Students were also found to have naive views of learning, and perceptions of the content of physics and how it should be learned which would hinder their learning. (Author/TW)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC