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Title: | Pre-Service Primary Teachers' Models of Kinetic Theory: An Examination of Three Different Cultural Groups | Contributor(s): | Taylor, Neil (author) ; Coll, Richard K (author) | Publication Date: | 2002 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/10329 | Abstract: | In this paper we describe research involving an investigation into Australian and Fiji pre-service primary teachers- mental models for Kinetic Theory. The study revealed that the teachers held a variety of mental models, some that were in agreement with the scientific models, and some that were incomplete, while a number appeared to hold no clear mental model. A constructivist-based pedagogy that was used to develop the Fiji teachers' understanding of Kinetic Theory appears to have been effective in model development. Participants reported that the most beneficial of techniques employed instruction based on the use of physical and analogical models. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Chemistry Education: Research and Practice in Europe, 3(3), p. 293-315 | Publisher: | University of Ioannina | Place of Publication: | Greece | ISSN: | 1109-4028 | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 130302 Comparative and Cross-Cultural Education | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 930299 Teaching and Instruction not elsewhere classified | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal | Publisher/associated links: | http://www.uoi.gr/cerp/2002_October/03.html |
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