Knowledge Structure Coherence in Turkish Students' Understanding of Force

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dc.authorid0000-0002-4757-8446
dc.contributor.authorOzdemir, Gokhan
dc.contributor.authorClark, Douglas
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-01T13:38:39Z
dc.date.available2019-08-01T13:38:39Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.departmentNiğde ÖHÜ
dc.description.abstractThis study investigates Turkish students' knowledge structure coherence in physics. In particular, this study investigates the conflicting findings reported in loannides and Vosniadou's [loannides and Vosniadou [2002] Cognitive Science Quarterly, 2, 5-61] and diSessa, Gillespie, and Esterly's [diSessa et al. [2004] Cognitive Science, 28, 843-900] studies about students' understandings of force. loannides and Vosniadou's study of four different age levels of students in Greece demonstrated broad consistency in students' understandings of force. diSessa and colleagues' quasi-replication in the United States demonstrated conflicting results supporting a more fragmented elemental perspective on students' knowledge structure coherence. The current study investigates these conflicting findings by studying students in a third country using the analytic methods from both studies to clarify the debate over knowledge structure coherence. The levels of consistency demonstrated by students in the Current study are somewhat higher than the levels reported by diSessa. Gillespie, and Esterly according to both coding schemes, but are closer overall to the levels reported by diSessa, Gillespie, and Esterly than to the levels reported by loannides and Vosniadou. In addition, closer inspection of students' explanations suggests that students' explanations may code as consistent according to the coding schemes for a particular force meaning category but not actually represent a coherent understanding of that force meaning. These results therefore more closely support fragmented elemental perspectives on knowledge structure coherence. The results, however, demonstrate important systematicities in students' thinking and support the possibility that differences between the student populations in the countries of the original studies contributed to the differences in findings of the original studies. (C) 2009 Wiley Periodicals. Inc. J Res Sci Teach 46: 570-596, 2009
dc.identifier.doi10.1002/tea.20290
dc.identifier.endpage596
dc.identifier.issn0022-4308
dc.identifier.issue5
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-67049159392
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.startpage570
dc.identifier.urihttps://dx.doi.org/10.1002/tea.20290
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11480/5064
dc.identifier.volume46
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000265658000006
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ1
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
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dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherJOHN WILEY & SONS INC
dc.relation.ispartofJOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN SCIENCE TEACHING
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.subjectconceptual change
dc.subjectmisconceptions
dc.subjectcognitive science
dc.subjectscience education
dc.titleKnowledge Structure Coherence in Turkish Students' Understanding of Force
dc.typeArticle

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