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Peer reviewedLiew, Chong Wah; Treagust, David F. – Australian Science Teachers Journal, 1995
Eighteen year-11 physics students were taught heat and expansion of liquids using a predict-observe-explain sequence. Argues that the data demonstrate how students' prior knowledge and beliefs can affect their observations and interpretations of new learning. (Author/MKR)
Descriptors: Heat, High School Students, Physics, Science Activities
Peer reviewedHarrison, Allan G.; Treagust, David F. – Australian Science Teachers Journal, 1994
Describes an approach for teaching with analogies in secondary science classes and gives an example using the three states of matter. (14 references) (Author/MKR)
Descriptors: Physics, Science Activities, Science Education, Science Instruction
Treagust, David F.; Kam, Goh Ah – Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast Asia, 1985
Discusses the need for including noise pollution in the science curriculum and describes 10 activities for improving students' awareness and understanding of and concern for noise and its effects. (Author/JN)
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Noise (Sound), Pollution, Science Activities
Peer reviewedHarrison, Allan G.; Treagust, David F. – Science Teacher, 1994
Presents information on using analogies in science instruction. Describes the Teaching-with-Analogies Model. Presents an example for homeostasis. (PR)
Descriptors: High Schools, Learning Activities, Misconceptions, Science Education
Peer reviewedTreagust, David F.; Smith, Clifton L. – School Science and Mathematics, 1989
Examined are tenth-grade Western Australian students' conceptual knowledge of gravity and the motion of the planets. Students were interviewed with seven cards, and a four-item diagnostic test based on the interview data on the first four cards was developed. A total of 113 students' responses to the test are summarized. (YP)
Descriptors: Astronomy, Cognitive Structures, Foreign Countries, Grade 10
Download full textThiele, Rodney B.; Treagust, David F. – 1991
Recent research literature has highlighted the interest of both teachers and researchers in using analogies to aid students' conceptual understanding. This appears to be especially relevant in secondary chemistry education due to the many abstract concepts that are included in the curricula. This paper reviews recent literature and considers…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Analogy, Chemistry, Cognitive Development
Peer reviewedVlahov, Stephen J.; Treagust, David F. – School Science and Mathematics, 1988
Data were collected by pencil-and-paper instruments from 33 students in grade 10 in Perth, Western Australia. Data indicated that students were only slightly knowledgeable about energy and energy conservation; they had slightly positive attitudes toward energy conservation. (MNS)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Energy, Energy Conservation, Environmental Education
Peer reviewedPeterson, Raymond F.; Treagust, David F. – Journal of Chemical Education, 1989
Describes a multiple choice, pencil and paper, diagnostic instrument used to measure student understanding of covalent bonding and structure concepts. Reports evidence of seven commonly held misconceptions. (MVL)
Descriptors: Chemical Bonding, Chemical Nomenclature, Chemical Reactions, Chemistry
Peer reviewedGarnett, Pamela J.; Treagust, David F. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1992
Interview data exemplify students' attempts to integrate the concepts of electrochemistry with related knowledge that they had previously constructed or acquired in other classes. The implications for minimizing potential misconceptions center on the difficulties students experience when using more than one model for explaining scientific…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, High School Students
