Learning conceptual knowledge in engineering science is a critical element in the
development of competence and expertise in engineering. To date, however, research on …

Conceptual change research investigates the processes through which learners
substantially revise prior knowledge and acquire new concepts. Tracing its heritage to …

Perkins reveals the common misguided strategies students use and offers teachers and
parents advice on how they can help their children. Although there has been a great deal of …

The term conceptual change was introduced by Thomas Kuhn (1962) to indicate that the
concepts embedded in a scientifi c theory change their meaning when the theory (paradigm) …

In this book, Gregory Feist reviews and consolidates the scattered literatures on the
psychology of science, then calls for the establishment of the field as a unique discipline. He …

El primer capítulo, de carácter introductorio, tiene el propósito de favorecer la evocación de
las experiencias propias y saberes previos del lector, a los efectos de que los enlace y …

The aims of this study were considered under three headings. The first was to elicit
misconception that science and physics student teachers (pre-service teachers) had about …

In one view of macrocognition (Klein et al., 2003), the “primary functions” are things that
domain practitioners say they need to accomplish: replanning, sensemaking, decision …

A complex dynamic system can be thought of as a collection of interrelated variables whose
structure determines the behavior of the system over time. The more variables that are …

Health education can offer a valuable window onto conceptual and behavioral change. In
Study 1, we mapped out 3rd-grade Chinese children's beliefs about causes of colds and flu …