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Peer reviewedJones, M. Gail; Carter, Glenda; Rua, Melissa J. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2000
Examines the relationships and development of communities of concepts related to heat and convection among fifth grade students. Discusses the influence of familial and cultural experiences on conceptual development as well as the extent to which competing phenomena affect the development of new conceptual understandings. (Contains 49 references.)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Concept Mapping, Discourse Analysis
Download full textJones, M. Gail; Vesilind, Elizabeth – 1994
This study was conducted to examine how the organization of preservice teachers' (N=23) knowledge about teaching changed during the last year of their undergraduate program which included a teaching methods course and student teaching. In order to explore cognitive organization three tools were combined: multidimensional scaling, concept mapping,…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Cognitive Mapping, Concept Formation, Concept Mapping
