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Seventh Grade Students' Misconceptions about Animals' Reproduction, Growth and Development and Their Likely Resources
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Murat, Mehmet Fen, Türk |
| Copyright Year | 2011 |
| Abstract | Students' ideas that do not agree with the current scientific view are called misconceptions (Smith, diSessa & Roschelle, 1993; Munson, 1994), alternative conceptions (Palmer, 1993; Wandersee, Mintzes & Novak, 1994) or preconceptions (Clement, 1982; Gallegos, Jerezona & Flores, 1994). The research on students’ misconceptions about animals’ reproduction, growth and development indicated that students possess various misconceptions, which were summarized as follows: 1. Students do not distinguish between reproduction and the act of copulation in mammals (Okeke & Wood-Robinson, 1980). 2. Students believe that sexual reproduction must involve mating and male animals are always bigger and stronger than females (See. Driver, Squires, Rushworth & WoodRobinson, 1994, p.45). 3. Students believe that sexual reproduction occurs only among animals and asexual reproduction produces weaker offspring than sexual reproduction does (Berthelsen, 1999). 4. Although knowing that whales are mammals, students have difficulty in understanding that young whales suck milk or whales feed on plankton (Kubiatko & Prokop, 2007). |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.tused.org/internet/tused/archive/v8/i1/text/tusedv8i1a10.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
