Pre-service science teachers’ conceptual and procedural difficulties in solving mathematical problems in physical science
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Date
2014
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University of the Western Cape
Abstract
Students frequently leave first-year physical science classes with a dual set of
physical laws in mind- the equations to be applied to qualitative problems and the
entrenched set of concepts, many erroneous, to be applied to qualitative, descriptive,
or explanatory problems. It is in this sense that the emphasis of this study is on
‘change’ rather than acquisition. Thus, a blend of theoretical framework was
considered according to the aim of the study. Of immediate relevance in this regard
within the “constructivist paradigm” are: Posner, Strike, Hewson and Gertzog’s
(1982) conceptual change theory and the revised Bloom’s Taxonomy.
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Magister Educationis - MEd
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Physical sciences, Mathematics, Teaching and learning, Undergraduate, Higher education