Mapping Conceptual Change in Matter and Molecules [microform] / Nancy Fellows
- Bib ID:
- 5557403
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Fellows, Nancy
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED357077
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- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1993
- 36 p.
- Summary:
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To analyze a student's conceptual changes, analyzing transcriptions of writing and verbal statements may not provide enough information. In a study of 25 sixth graders learning about matter and molecules, concept mapping of students' stated ideas was used to analyze the kinds of organizational changes the students made to use new science information. Mapping student statements across time should provide insight into the ways they restructure knowledge. Methodology used and findings are reported for 2 of the 25 students as they studied matter and molecules. Interviews, student writings, transcripts of their remarks, and observations of classroom instruction were used to make the concept maps. Maps were constructed by placing each concept in a circle and connecting the circles as concepts were mentioned. Comparing the maps over time reflected changes in student thinking. With the aid of instruction, students organized their information more usefully and their maps became more organized, with more hierarchical levels. Implications for teaching and learning are discussed. Eight figures of concept maps are included. (Contains 24 references.) (SLD)
- Notes:
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- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (Atlanta, GA, April 12-16, 1993).
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- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
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- Classroom Observation Techniques
- Comparative Analysis
- Concept Formation
- Concept Mapping
- Elementary School Students
- Grade 6
- Information Utilization
- Intermediate Grades
- Interviews
- Knowledge Level
- Matter
- Middle School Students
- Middle Schools
- Molecular Structure
- Organization
- Science Instruction
- Student Evaluation
- Teaching Methods
- Thinking Skills
- Writing Evaluation
- Concept Maps Conceptual Change
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- ERIC
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
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- Published
- Publication date:
- 1993
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