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Hadjilouca, Rodothea; Constantinou, Costas – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2019
Background: Helping upper elementary and lower secondary school students develop an awareness of various aspects of the nature of science (NOS) and nature of technology (NOT) is a widely recognized goal of science teaching. In this study, we focus on the connections between science and technology (S&T). Purpose: We report on the design,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 6, Foreign Countries, Scientific Principles
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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