The purpose of this study is to explore the impact of problem solving instruction on 126
middle school students' learning of physical science in terms of their scientific knowledge …

In the present study, we have applied a word association procedure for assessing
conceptual change in science education, leaning on the presuppositions of the theory of …

This study is an investigation into the ability of pre-assessment measures of formal thought
ability and general achievement to predict students at-risk of poor performance in college …

This study reports an adaptive digital learning project, Scientific Concept Construction and
Reconstruction (SCCR), and examines its effects on 108 8th grade students' scientific …

This study investigates three aspects—university major, year, and institution type—in
relation to student scientific reasoning. Students from three majors (science, engineering …

Background Studies on the effectiveness of block‐based environments continue to produce
inconsistent results. A strong reason for this is that most studies compare environments that …

The purpose of this study was to compare different conceptual change methods within a
topic on 'sound propagation'. The study was conducted with 80 grade 5 students (aged 11 …

Sociocultural and cognitive perspectives hold to epistemically different views on knowledge
acquisition and change. While sociocultural perspectives point to social experience as the …

This article reports research from a 3 year digital learning project to unite conceptual change
and scientific reasoning in the learning unit of combustion. One group of students had …

The purpose of the study was to diagnose students' misconceptions of a number of basic
astronomy concepts, namely, the Universe, the Sun, Comets and Constellations. The study …