Psychology of subject matter refers to the scientific study of learning and instruction within
school subjects. The growing research literature on teaching and learning of school subjects …

This article describes a research study concerning students' conceptions and reasonings
about fluids and pressure in static situations. After a preliminary survey involving interviews …

Performance in 2 versions of a computer-animated task was compared. Participants either
indicated the time of arrival of a target that rolled off a horizontal surface and fell—hidden …

This study aimed to explore the effectiveness one of the interactive engagement method
which is peer instruction enriched by concept test on students' achievement and attitudes …

Myearly fascination with geometry and physics and, later, with perception and imagination
inspired a hope that fundamental phenomena of psychology, like those of physics, might …

This dissertation offers an integrated, systematic account of the qualitative, symmetrical
patterns that are shared by all thought experimental activities, which include the wide range …

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of conceptual change oriented
instruction accompanied by demonstrations and gender on tenth grade students̕ …

In her paper “Classification for Information Retrieval and Classification for Knowledge
Discovery: Relationships between 'Professional'and 'Naïve'Classifications”(KO v. 30, no. 2 …

In this article, Baillargeon has presented a forceful case for her theory on the cognitive
development of physical knowledge but I do not think that the violation of expectancy …

The aim of this paper is to explore the hypothesis that mental concepts are natural kind
concepts. By 'mental concepts' I mean the ordinary words belonging to our everyday …