Development and Application of a Two-Tier Diagnostic Test for High School Students’ Understanding of Flowering Plant Growth and Development

Lin, Sheau-Wen

doi:10.1007/s10763-004-6484-y

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“…Other misconceptions are that photosynthesis is the process whereby the plants breathe, or that only green plants can carry out photosynthesis. Some students think that soil provides energy for plants or that seeds do not need nutrition for germination (Lin 2004). In Barmann and co-workers' (2006) study, students thought that plants, like animals, are provided with sunlight, water and food externally and that sunlight may warm up plants or helps to produce food by giving energy and heat.…”

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Children’s ideas about the internal structure of trees: cross-age studies

Rybska

Tunnicliffe

Sajkowska

2016

Journal of Biological Education

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Trees are important to the environment owing to their ecological services. However, many aspects of their form and function are poorly understood by the public. From their earliest years, children have an elementary knowledge about plants which they gain from their everyday observations, their parents and other people and from their kindergarten and primary schooling. However, studies carried out in Brazil and England have shown that many children hold a number of alternative conceptions about the internal structure of trees. The goal of this research was to investigate Polish children's understanding of trees' internal structure. This cross-age study involved 5-year-old children from kindergarten (n=57, 26 boys and 31 girls) and 7-year-old children (n=105, 57 boys and 48 girls) and 10-year-old children (83 children, 36 boys and 47 girls) from primary school. Participants were asked to draw the internal structure of a tree. The results of the study showed that there were some significant differences in the responses between age groups and between the genders. Nevertheless, there were some ideas that were shared among all age groups indicating that they might be resistant to change. The study also identified some alternative conceptions about the internal structure of plants and the influence of the media on children's ideas. These ideas, which to some extent replicate findings from England and Brazil, might be crucial for shaping proenvironmental attitudes of pupils in central European farmland countries where plants are important organisms not only for environmental but also for economic perspectives.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Children’s ideas about the internal structure of trees: cross-age studies

Rybska

Tunnicliffe

Sajkowska

2016

Journal of Biological Education

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“…However, the considerable effort and time required makes the technique unsuitable for a large-scale study. To overcome this limitation, a two-tiered multiple-choice diagnostic instrument (e.g., Lin, 2004), based on the results of this study is recommended to investigate the distributions of misconceptions about correlation in a large-scale study.…”

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Identifying Senior High School Students’ Misconceptions About Statistical Correlation, and Their Possible Causes: An Exploratory Study Using Concept Mapping With Interviews

Liu

Lin

Tsai

2008

Int J of Sci and Math Educ

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Correlation is an essential concept in statistics; however, students may hold misconceptions about correlation, even after receiving instruction. This study aimed to elucidate (1) the misconceptions held by senior high school students about correlation, using the tool of concept mapping along with interviewing, (2) the possible causes of these misconceptions, and (3) the effectiveness, advantages, and limitations of the adopted concept mapping using an interviewing technique for identifying student misconceptions. Twenty-five grade-12 students who had received tuition on correlation were the subjects of this study. Concept mapping through interviewing was used to collect and analyze data in order to identify the subjects' misconceptions, and their possible causes. The major study results are as follows.(1) Seven misconceptions about correlation were detected. Of these seven misconceptions, five were newly discovered by this study, while the other two are similar to those found by previous studies. Each of the seven misconceptions was held by 20-68% of the subjects, showing their prevalence and significance. (2) Four major factors related to the development of misconceptions about correlation were identified: learning materials, language, daily-life experiences, and existing mathematical concepts.(3) The concept mapping through the interviewing technique adopted in this study was effective in detecting misconceptions about statistics, especially in revealing new misconceptions, and it was also helpful in exploring their possible causes. However, tremendous effort and the time consumed are the major limitations of this technique. (4) The paper concluded by providing some recommendations for researchers and educators.

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“…Öğrencilerin alternatif kavramlarının ve anlama düzeylerinin incelendiği çalışmalarda, öğrencilerin fen sınıflarına konularla ilgili çeşitli ön fikirler ve açıklamalar getirdikleri, ancak bu ön bilgilerin genellikle bilimsel doğrularla uyuşmadığı sonuçlarına ulaşılmıştır (Beeth, 1993;Çetin, Ertepınar ve Geban, 2004;Griffard ve Wandersee, 2001;Lin, 2004;Tan, Taber, Goh ve Chia, 2005). Yürütülen çok sayıda araştırma sonucunda, çocukların fen sınıflarına getirdikleri bu ön bilgiler veya kavramsal yapıların, öğrenme sürecini önemli ölçüde etkilediği ve değişmeye karşı dirençli olduğu da görülmüştür (Beeth, 1995;Duit ve Treagust 2003).…”

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Di̇füzyon Ve Osmoz Kavramlarina Yöneli̇k Tani Testi̇ Geli̇şti̇ri̇lmesi̇ Ve Uygulanmasi

Çinici¹

2013

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In the study, it was described the process of development and application a diagnostic test identifying and documenting students' alternative conceptions related to diffusion and osmosis. The test development procedure had three general steps: defining the content boundaries of the test, identifying students' alternative conceptions, and instrument development. Alternative conceptions were derived from a multiplechoice test which also required free responses in addition to literature. This first draft of the test was applied to 119 ninth graders from three different high schools. The alternative conceptions gathered from this administration and literature was used for developing second tiers of the items. In this way, the final version of the test was clarified and applied to 90 ninth and 73 tenth graders at Erzurum Anatolian High School. The reliability coefficient for the whole test is 0.62, average difficulty index is 0.55, and average discrimination power is 0.41. According to the results revealed from application of the test, high school students had many alternative conceptions on diffusion and osmosis.

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Development and Application of a Two-Tier Diagnostic Test for High School Students’ Understanding of Flowering Plant Growth and Development

Cited by 80 publications

References 19 publications

Children’s ideas about the internal structure of trees: cross-age studies

Children’s ideas about the internal structure of trees: cross-age studies

Identifying Senior High School Students’ Misconceptions About Statistical Correlation, and Their Possible Causes: An Exploratory Study Using Concept Mapping With Interviews

Di̇füzyon Ve Osmoz Kavramlarina Yöneli̇k Tani Testi̇ Geli̇şti̇ri̇lmesi̇ Ve Uygulanmasi

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