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Kendeou, Panayiota; Braasch, Jason L. G.; Bråten, Ivar – Journal of Experimental Education, 2016
A refutation text is designed to promote conceptual change by explicitly acknowledging commonly held misconceptions about a topic, directly refuting them, and providing an accurate explanation. In this study, we determined the impact of different types of refutation texts on adolescent readers' conceptual change learning in science. Specifically,…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Concept Formation, Change, Learning