A pilot application for detecting the patterns of conceptions of Elementary students based on the new Sciences curricula
Abstract
Despite the fact that the new curricula are intended to reflect changes at a social, scientific and technological level, students are placed at the center of every educational intervention. The alternative conceptions they have formed and the possible, relevant reasoning structures, before entering the classroom, own great importance at the planning of an instruction. Therefore, it is necessary for whom is responsible for organizing the learning of the group, i.e. the teacher, to be comprehensively informed about these conceptions. In this paper, the application of two pilot questionnaires is sought. The first one aims at capturing the alternative perceptions and the other the reasoning structures of 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th grade students according to the thematic fields and thematic units of the new curricula of Environmental Studies and Physics of the Elementary School.
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- 2. PERCEPTIONS AND REFLECTIONS OF STUDENTS AND TEACHERS