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Peer reviewedTsai, Chin-Chung – International Journal of Science Education, 2001
Explores students' worldviews as revealed by their ideas about the causality of earthquakes after experiencing the natural disaster. Finds that students accept scientific ideas and abandon their original worldviews, accept scientific ideas and retain their original worldviews, or retain their original worldviews and ignore the scientific…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Elementary Education, Misconceptions, Science Education
