Determination and Removal of 8th Grade Students’ Misconceptions About The Unit of “Cell Division and Inheritance” by Using Analogy with Conceptual Change Texts

dc.creator	Erkan AKYÜREK
dc.creator	Özlem AFACAN
dc.date	2013-04-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:17:19Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:17:19Z
dc.identifier	1302-5007
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/c35f35d66fb34a258a710f63f045fda9
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/18956
dc.description	The aim of this study is to determine 8th grade students’ misconceptions about the unit of “Cell Division” by using roundhouse diagramming, detected misconceptions eliminate by an analogy and conceptional change texts. The research single group pre-test and post test were used. The sample of study was 26 eighth grade students (Boy – 12/Girl –14) from “A Primary School” in Kırsehir/Turkey. Three roundhouse diagrams were drawn about unit of cell division’s seven basic concepts to determine their misconceptions. The results of this research show that the vast majority of students had misconceptions about “DNA, chromosome, gene”, “mutation, modification” and “mitosis, meiosis”. Given to remove misconceptions identified by analogy to investigate the effect of conceptual change texts. As a result, by analogy, the conceptual change texts were found to be effective in remedying students' misconceptions were identified.
dc.language	Turkish
dc.publisher	Ahi Evran University
dc.relation	http://kefad.ahievran.edu.tr/archieve/pdfler/Cilt14Sayi1/JKEF_14_1_2013_175-193.pdf
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1302-5007
dc.source	Journal of Kirsehir Education Faculty, Vol 14, Iss 1, Pp 175-193 (2013)
dc.subject	Concept
dc.subject	Misconception
dc.subject	Roundhouse diagramming
dc.subject	Conceptual change
dc.subject	Analogy.
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Determination and Removal of 8th Grade Students’ Misconceptions About The Unit of “Cell Division and Inheritance” by Using Analogy with Conceptual Change Texts
dc.type	article