This thesis investigated how instructional environments might be optimally designed for all students to restructure prior knowledge and learn counter-intuitive science concepts, referred to as conceptual change. Three independent variables were examined in relation to real-time cognitive processes and subsequent learning outcomes: a learner characteristic (students' beliefs about knowledge and knowing, or epistemic beliefs), a property of instructional texts (refutational text structures), and a variable of instructional contexts (reading goals). Fifty-one university students with misconceptions in biological evolution were classified as espousing either absolutistic or evaluativist epistemic beliefs. Participants were randomly assigned to ...
This paper draws attention to the literature in the areas of learning, specifically, cons-tructivism...
This paper explores how work in the philosophy of science can be used when teaching scientific conte...
Science misconceptions can be deeply held and difficult to change. Conceptual change learning theory...
This study focuses on a personal and an instructional variable that may affect conceptual change, wh...
Fundamental concepts in biology are often challenging to understand. More strikingly, studies also r...
A high school Biology II classroom was observed daily in order to study students\u27 conceptual chan...
This study investigated high school students’ conceptions of genes during a two-week study on inheri...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of epistemic beliefs and knowledge representat...
For more than thirty years, research on conceptual change has provided detailed descriptions and exp...
It is well established in higher education that students arrive at university with existing schema (...
This study examined how individuals and peers process scientific information that contradicts what t...
Learning can be difficult for students due to incorrect prior knowledge, or misconceptions, interfer...
We explored the role that epistemic emotions play in conceptual change, specifically whether task va...
The aim of this study was to identify the type of conceptual change (assimilation or accommodation) ...
Scientific concepts of learning and the brain are relevant for biology teachers in two ways: Firstly...
This paper draws attention to the literature in the areas of learning, specifically, cons-tructivism...
This paper explores how work in the philosophy of science can be used when teaching scientific conte...
Science misconceptions can be deeply held and difficult to change. Conceptual change learning theory...
This study focuses on a personal and an instructional variable that may affect conceptual change, wh...
Fundamental concepts in biology are often challenging to understand. More strikingly, studies also r...
A high school Biology II classroom was observed daily in order to study students\u27 conceptual chan...
This study investigated high school students’ conceptions of genes during a two-week study on inheri...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of epistemic beliefs and knowledge representat...
For more than thirty years, research on conceptual change has provided detailed descriptions and exp...
It is well established in higher education that students arrive at university with existing schema (...
This study examined how individuals and peers process scientific information that contradicts what t...
Learning can be difficult for students due to incorrect prior knowledge, or misconceptions, interfer...
We explored the role that epistemic emotions play in conceptual change, specifically whether task va...
The aim of this study was to identify the type of conceptual change (assimilation or accommodation) ...
Scientific concepts of learning and the brain are relevant for biology teachers in two ways: Firstly...
This paper draws attention to the literature in the areas of learning, specifically, cons-tructivism...
This paper explores how work in the philosophy of science can be used when teaching scientific conte...
Science misconceptions can be deeply held and difficult to change. Conceptual change learning theory...