The study of basic everyday chemical knowledge...
of undergraduate students of non-chemical branches
of natural sciences
The study of basic everyday chemical knowledge...
of undergraduate students of non-chemical branches
of natural sciences
Author(s): Paweł Cieśla, Małgorzata NodzyńskaSubject(s): Health and medicine and law
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie
Keywords: scientific knowledge; colloquial knowledge; negative transfer
Summary/Abstract: As colloquial knowledge may have significant impact on understanding and learning newcontent it was decided to investigate how the functioning of chemical concepts in everydaylife and using them without proper defining in the lessons (e.g. during natural science lessons)interferes with the process of their proper functioning in further science education.The research was carried out among students of biology, geography, physics, and pedagogyusing Kahoot tests. The results revealed that colloquial knowledge is much stronger thanscientific one at the examined area and negative transfer took place.
Journal: Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia ad Didacticam Biologiae Pertinentia
- Issue Year: VIII/2018
- Issue No: I
- Page Range: 128-137
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English
