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《The Journal of educational research》2012,105(6):407-423
ABSTRACT Students often hold misconceptions that conflict with scientific explanations. Research has shown that refutation texts are effective for facilitating conceptual change in these cases (Guzzetti, Snyder, Glass, & Gamas, 1993). The process through which refutation texts have their effect is not clear. The authors replicated and extended previous research investigating cognitive processes involved in the refutation text effect. Undergraduates read either a refutation or an expository text on seasonal change. Individual reading times were recorded. Participants’ conceptions were measured at pretest, posttest, and delayed posttest. Results showed that readers spent less time reading the refutation paragraph compared to the expository paragraph. The refutation text group had fewer misconceptions at posttest. These findings suggest that refutation text processing differences mirror similar findings in the attention literature, which may account for their effectiveness. 相似文献
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《Contemporary educational psychology》2014,39(2):164-174
This study explored how confidence in prior knowledge, self-efficacy, interest, and prior knowledge interact in conceptual change learning. One hundred and sixteen college students completed an assessment of confidence in prior knowledge, self-efficacy, interest, prior scientific understanding, and prior misconceptions before reading a refutation text on seasonal change. Students’ misconceptions and scientific understanding of seasonal change was then assessed before and after reading a refutation text, and again at a two week delayed posttest. Three profiles of students emerged based on their confidence in prior knowledge, self-efficacy, interest, prior scientific understanding, and prior misconceptions. The profiles included: (1) Low (low confidence, self-efficacy, interest, and prior scientific understanding and high prior misconceptions), (2) mixed (high confidence, self-efficacy, and interest, but low prior scientific understanding and high prior misconceptions), and (3) high (high confidence, self-efficacy, interest, and prior scientific understanding and low prior misconceptions). Results indicated that the mixed profile appeared to be most productive for conceptual change and that learner characteristics most productive for conceptual change learning may differ from those most productive in other learning situations. 相似文献
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As people attempt to make sense of the world, they develop personal knowledge structures. These structures often contain misconceptions—inaccurate
or incomplete information—that are highly resistant to change because existing knowledge networks must be restructured to
accommodate counterintuitive information in a process known as conceptual change. Since textbooks are the dominant resource
for science instruction in most classrooms, text-based methods of facilitating conceptual change need to be examined. Since
the mid-1980 s, researchers have investigated the conceptual change potential of refutation text, a text structure that includes
elements of argumentation and that has been described as one of the most effective text-based means for modifying readers’
misconceptions. In this paper, twenty years of refutation text research in science and reading education is reviewed and then
a secondary analysis of those results is conducted to explore developmental aspects of the efficacy of refutation text. Although
a developmental relationship was not revealed, two decades of research indicate that reading refutation text rather than traditional
expository text is more likely to result in conceptual change. 相似文献
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The authors mainly aimed to investigate the following question: Are there any significant effects of the first combined method of a conceptual change approach with refutation text, worksheets, and activities with respect to the second combined method of a conceptual change approach with conceptual texts, presentations, and activities on students' misconceptions and achievement on a 3-tier posttest score measuring Grade 7 basic astronomy concepts when independent variables are controlled? There was a statistically significant effect of the first combined method with respect to the second method at the medium effect size on both misconception scores and achievement scores. This finding clearly demonstrates that use of the first combined method, which included refutation texts with worksheets, eliminated the students' misconceptions and increased their achievement. The second combined method also increased the students' achievement, but almost 40% of their misconceptions remained. 相似文献
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Effective instruction for conceptual change should aim to reduce the interference of irrelevant knowledge structures, as well as to improve sense-making of counterintuitive scientific notions. Refutation texts are designed to support such processes, yet evidence for its effect on individual conceptual change of robust, complex misconceptions has not been equivocal. In the present work, we examine whether effects of refutation text reading on conceptual change in biological evolution can be augmented with subsequent peer argumentation activities. Hundred undergraduates read a refutation text followed by either peer argumentation on erroneous worked-out solutions or by standard, individual problem solving. Control group subjects read an expository text followed by individual problem solving. Results showed strong effects for the refutation text. Surprisingly, subsequent peer argumentation did not further improve learning gains after refutation text reading. Dialogue protocols analyses showed that gaining dyads were more likely to be symmetrical and to discuss core conceptual principles. 相似文献
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Are preservice teachers prepared to teach struggling readers? 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Reading disabilities such as dyslexia, a specific learning disability that affects an individual’s ability to process written
language, are estimated to affect 15–20% of the general population. Consequently, elementary school teachers encounter students
who struggle with inaccurate or slow reading, poor spelling, poor writing, and other language processing difficulties. However,
recent evidence may suggest that teacher preparation programs are not providing preservice teachers with information about
basic language constructs and other components related to scientifically based reading instruction. As a consequence preservice
teachers have not exhibited explicit knowledge of such concepts in previous studies. Few studies have sought to assess preservice
teachers’ knowledge about dyslexia in conjunction with knowledge of basic language concepts. The purpose of the present study
was to examine elementary school preservice teachers’ knowledge of basic language constructs and their perceptions and knowledge
about dyslexia. Findings from the present study suggest that preservice teachers, on average, are able to display implicit
skills related to certain basic language constructs (i.e., syllable counting), but fail to demonstrate explicit knowledge
of others (i.e., phonics principles). Also, preservice teachers seem to hold the common misconception that dyslexia is a visual
perception deficit rather than a problem with phonological processing. Implications for future research as well as teacher
preparation are discussed. 相似文献
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The study compared the comprehension processes and outcomes obtained with refutation and expository text and their association with learning outcomes. After a knowledge pretest, undergraduate students read an extended expository text or a corresponding refutation text that addressed three potential misconceptions about the scientific concept of energy. Think-aloud, cued recall, and posttest data indicated that the positive impact of refutation text was more associated with comprehension outcomes than processes. Refutation text did not influence comprehension processes but facilitated valid inference generation in recall and minimized the negative effects of distortions on learning. The findings suggest the timing of the refutation text effect to be later, after reading, and its nature to be that of neutralizing the influence of any misconceptions on learning from text instead of changing them. 相似文献
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This study investigates how the enactment of a climate change curriculum supports students’ development of critical science
agency, which includes students developing deep understandings of science concepts and the ability to take action at the individual
and community levels. We examined the impact of a four to six week urban ecology curriculum on students from three different
urban high schools in the USA. Data collection included pre and posttest written assessments from all students (n = 75) and pre and post interviews from focal students (n = 22) to examine how students’ conceptual understandings, beliefs and environmental actions changed. Our analyses showed
that at the beginning of the curriculum, the majority of students believed that climate change was occurring; yet, they had
limited conceptual understandings about climate change and were engaged in limited environmental actions. By the end of the
curriculum, students had a significant increase in their understanding of climate change and the majority of students reported
they were now engaged in actions to limit their personal impact on climate change. These findings suggest that believing a
scientific theory (e.g. climate change) is not sufficient for critical science agency; rather, conceptual understandings and
understandings of personal actions impact students’ choices. We recommend that future climate change curriculum focus on supporting
students’ development of critical science agency by addressing common student misconceptions and by focusing on how students’
actions can have significant impacts on the environment. 相似文献
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Tolga Gok 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2012,10(2):417-436
The purpose of this study is to assess students’ conceptual learning of electricity and magnetism and examine how these conceptions,
beliefs about physics, and quantitative problem-solving skills would change after peer instruction (PI). The Conceptual Survey
of Electricity and Magnetism (CSEM), Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey (CLASS), multiple-choice test was administered
as a pre- and posttest with Solomon 4 group design to students (N = 138) enrolled on freshman level physics course. The number of chapter taught to the students was 14. Problem-solving
strategy steps were asked to students in the exam. The analyses of CSEM showed that the treatment group (g = 0.62) obtained significantly higher conceptual learning gain than the control group (g = 0.36). The conceptual understanding and problem-solving skills of the students on magnetism considerably enhanced when
PI was conducted (37% and 20%, respectively). CLASS results for 5 subscales (conceptual understanding, applied conceptual
understanding, problem solving general, problem solving confidence, and problem solving sophistication) supported the findings
of CSEM. 相似文献
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Muammer ?alik Ali Kolomu? Zafer Karag?lge 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2010,19(5):422-433
This paper reports on an investigation of the effect of conceptual change pedagogy on students’ conceptions of ‘rate of reaction’
concepts. The study used a pre-test/post-test non-equivalent comparison group design approach and the sample consisted of
72 Turkish grade-11 students (aged 16–18 years) selected from two intact classrooms. The ‘Rate of Reaction’ Concept Test comprising
9 lead and 10 sub-questions (total 19 items) was employed. The results suggest that the teaching intervention helped the students
to overcome their alternative conceptions and to store their newly structured knowledge in their long-term memories. It is
suggested that combining different conceptual change methods such conceptual change text/refutation text, argumentation with
the intervention used here may be more effective in reducing student alternative conceptions. 相似文献
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Menz Cordelia Spinath Birgit Seifried Eva 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》2021,36(2):477-494
Endorsement of educational psychological misconceptions among preservice teachers can be a threat for reaching educational goals. Therefore, it is of societal interest whether preservice teachers hold educational psychological misconceptions and, if they do, whether these misconceptions can be reduced through confrontation with empirical evidence. Prevalence and refutability of misconceptions were analyzed among N = 937 German preservice teachers who participated in an online survey. Results indicated a high prevalence of educational psychological misconceptions but also the possibility of a reduction through refutation-style texts. However, only few preservice teachers shifted their opinions from (rather) endorsing a misconception to (rather) not endorsing it after reading the text. We conclude that educational psychological misconceptions are common among German preservice teachers and that merely presenting empirical evidence is insufficient to effectively counteract misconceptions. Future research should deepen the understanding of why and wherefrom these misconceptions occur and develop efficient interventions to counteract misconceptions among preservice teachers.
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The aim of this study was to investigate the theory that visual magnocellular deficits seen in groups with dyslexia are linked
to reading via the mechanisms of visual attention. Visual attention was measured with a serial search task and magnocellular
function with a coherent motion task. A large group of children with dyslexia (n = 70) had slower serial search times than a control group of typical readers. However, the effect size was small (η
p2 = 0.05) indicating considerable overlap between the groups. When the dyslexia sample was split into those with or without
a magnocellular deficit, there was no difference in visual search reaction time between either group and controls. The data
suggest that magnocellular sensitivity and visual spatial attention weaknesses are independent of one another. They also provide
more evidence of heterogeneity in response to psychophysical tasks in groups with dyslexia. Alternative explanations for poor
performance on visual attention tasks are proposed along with avenues for future research. 相似文献
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Refutation text is potentially more effective than standard text for conceptual change. Learning from text and graphic is also potentially superior to learning from text alone. In two studies, we investigated the effectiveness of both a refutation text and a refutation graphic for promoting high school students’ conceptual change learning about season change, as well as their metacognitive awareness of conceptual conflict and knowledge revision. In both studies, participants were randomly assigned to one of four conditions: (1) standard text with standard graphic, (2) standard text with refutation graphic, (3) refutation text with standard graphic, or (4) refutation text with refutation graphic. Both studies had a pretest, immediate post-test, and delayed post-test design and involved students with an initial common misconception about the causes of season change. In Study 2, explicit relevance instructions to observe the important illustration were given to the participants. In both studies, refutation text with refutation graphic was not more beneficial than other instructional materials, either at immediate or delayed post-test. In Study 1, more stable conceptual change learning emerged in readers of the refutation text with standard graphic compared to readers in the control condition. In Study 2, readers of the standard text with refutation graphic performed as well as readers of the refutation text with standard graphic. In addition, more readers of the refutation text with either graphic showed metacognitive awareness of their knowledge change compared to readers in the control condition. Educational implications underline the importance of relevance instructions for guiding readers toward the graphic and of the design of text-graphic pairing to sustain knowledge revision. 相似文献
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Guylaine Le Jan Régine Le Bouquin-Jeannès Nathalie Costet Nolwenn Trolès Pascal Scalart Dominique Pichancourt Gérard Faucon Jean-Emile Gombert 《Annals of dyslexia》2011,61(1):1-20
Dyslexia is a specific disorder of language development that mainly affects reading. Etiological researches have led to multiple
hypotheses which induced various diagnosis methods and rehabilitation treatments so that many different tests are used by
practitioners to identify dyslexia symptoms. Our purpose is to determine a subset of the most efficient ones by integrating
them into a multivariate predictive model. A set of screening tasks that are the most commonly used and representative of
the different cognitive aspects of dyslexia was proposed to 78 children from elementary school (mean age = 9 years ± 7 months)
exempt from identified reading difficulties and to 35 dyslexic children attending a specialized consultation for dyslexia.
We proposed a multi-step procedure: within each category, we first selected the most representative tasks using principal
component analysis and then we implemented logistic regression models on the preselected variables. Spelling and reading tasks
were considered separately. The model with the best predictive performance includes eight variables from four categories of
tasks and classifies correctly 94% of the children. The sensitivity (91%) and the specificity (95%) are both high. Forty minutes
are necessary to complete the test. 相似文献
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In this study, we examined the conditions under which readers are able to transfer revised knowledge as a result of reading refutation texts (i.e. texts that explicitly state and refute a misconception). Across three experiments, participants read refutation texts that addressed socioscientific and nonsocioscientific issues as well as transfer texts that were designed to reactivate the misconceptions addressed in refutation texts. In Experiments 1 and 2, the results indicate that reading a refutation text reduces interference from the misconception as participants read the transfer texts in close temporal distance, even when the misconception is reactivated. In Experiment 3, the results indicate that participants reading refutation texts could not transfer revised knowledge when the temporal distance between refutation texts and transfer texts increased. Students’ performance on pretest and posttest questionnaires also suggest that reading the refutation texts facilitated knowledge revision prior to transfer. We discuss the findings in the context of the Knowledge Revision Components Framework. 相似文献
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The effects of epistemic beliefs and text structure on cognitive processes during comprehension of scientific texts were investigated. On‐line processes were measured using think‐aloud (Experiment 1) and reading time (Experiment 2) methodologies. Measures of off‐line comprehension, prior knowledge and epistemic beliefs were obtained. Results indicated that readers adjust their processing as a function of the interaction between epistemic beliefs and text structure. Readers with misconceptions and more sophisticated epistemic beliefs engage in conceptual change processes, but only when reading refutation texts. Results also showed that memory for text is not affected by differences in epistemic beliefs or text structure. These findings contribute to our understanding of the relations among factors associated with text comprehension and have implications for theories of conceptual change. 相似文献
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Inquiry-based Instruction with Archived, Online Data: An Intervention Study with Preservice Teachers 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
This mixed methods study described preservice teachers’ conceptions of tides and explored the efficacy of integrating online
data into inquiry-based instruction. Data sources included a multiple-choice assessment and in-depth interviews. A total of
79 participants in secondary, middle, and early childhood teacher education programs completed the multiple-choice assessment
of their baseline knowledge of tides-related concepts. A sub-group of 29 participants also was interviewed to explore their
understanding of tides in more detail before instruction. Eighteen of those 29 teachers participated in the instruction, were
interviewed again after the instruction, and completed the multiple-choice assessment as a posttest. The interview data sets
were analyzed via a constant comparative method in order to produce profiles of each participant’s pre- and post-instruction
conceptual understandings of tides. Additional quantitative analysis consisted of a paired-sample t-test, which investigated the changes in scores before and after the instructional intervention. Before instruction, all participants
held alternative or alternative fragments as their conceptual understandings of tides. After completing the inquiry-based
instruction that integrated online tidal data, participants were more likely to hold a scientific conceptual understanding.
After instruction, some preservice teachers continued to hold on to the conception that the rotation of the moon around the
Earth during one 24-hour period causes the tides to move with the moon. The quantitative results, however, indicated that
pre- to post-instruction gains were significant. The findings of this study provide evidence that integrating Web-based archived
data into inquiry-based instruction can be used to effectively promote conceptual change among preservice teachers. 相似文献
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The purpose of this study was to investigate whether conceptual change texts and laboratory experiments are effective in overcoming
misconceptions and whether the concepts were acquired permanently when these methods were utilized. In this study, we addressed
some topics from the “Matter and Change” unit in science and technology class of elementary 4th grade. Students from three
classes of an elementary school participated in the study (N = 104). Students’ misconceptions were determined by administering the “Matter Concept Test” before, immediately after and
13 weeks after the instructional period. The results of the study showed that both conceptual change texts and experiment
method were more successful than traditional instruction in overcoming the misconceptions and acquiring permanent knowledge.
However, there was not a significant difference between these two alternative approaches in terms of reducing the misconceptions. 相似文献
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We extend previous theoretical and empirical work by examining the role that emotions and epistemic judgments play when learning from different refutation plus persuasive and expository plus persuasive texts. We examined how variations in messages designed to change misconceptions and attitudes about genetically modified foods (GMFs) might differentially impact the extent to which individuals engage in epistemic judgments; the emotions individuals experience during learning; and, how epistemic judgments and emotions might facilitate or constrain conceptual and attitudinal change. One hundred twenty-five undergraduate university students were randomly assigned to one of four text conditions: refutation plus positive persuasive text, refutation plus negative persuasive text, expository plus positive persuasive text, or expository plus negative persuasive text. Students were asked to think and emote out loud during learning to capture epistemic judgments and emotions as they occurred in real time. After the learning session, students also self-reported the emotions they experienced during learning. Results revealed that students who were given positive persuasive texts experienced more positive emotions (both intensity and frequency) during learning, whereas those who were given negative persuasive texts experienced more negative emotions (frequency) during learning. Students who were given positive persuasive texts engaged in more epistemic judgments and changed more misconceptions about GMFs compared to students in the other three text conditions. Finally, epistemic judgments were significant positive predictors of conceptual and attitudinal change, and both positive emotions and negative emotions predicted attitudinal change. Implications for theories of conceptual and attitudinal change are discussed. 相似文献
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National and international reform documents have forged blueprints for advancing science education. Coursework for preservice
teachers needs to correspond to these documents by providing learning experiences that develop preservice teachers’ capabilities
to plan and implement reform measures. Using a pretest–posttest design, responses from 59 2nd-year preservice teachers from
the same university were compared after involvement in an elementary science pedagogy coursework. The survey, which was linked
to the course outcomes (constructs) and multiple indicators, measured the preservice teachers’ perceptions of their development
towards becoming elementary science teachers. A pretest–posttest survey linked to course outcomes can be employed to assess
perceived pedagogical development of preservice teachers, which can inform further teaching practices for implementing science
education reform agendas. 相似文献