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Challenging Student Alternative Frameworks Of Electrical Circuits, Lauril Jones
Challenging Student Alternative Frameworks Of Electrical Circuits, Lauril Jones
Theses : Honours
Student alternative frameworks were found by the researcher to be a problem when teaching the topic of electricity to Year 9 science students. It was recognised that the alternative frameworks had to be identified and a constructivist teaching strategy that would facilitate conceptual change within these students needed to be adopted. A pre-test-post-test, control group-treatment group study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of a constructivist approach to instruction. The treatment group in the study received instruction based on the 'four phase model for teaching for conceptual change', a constructivist approach to teaching suggested by Cosgrove and Osborne (1985) as …
Integrating Mathematics In The Primary Classroom, Nancy Jean Baker
Integrating Mathematics In The Primary Classroom, Nancy Jean Baker
Theses Digitization Project
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