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Elementary Students' Cognitive Conflict Through Discussion and Physical Experience in Learning of Electric Circuit  

Seo, Sang-Oh (Korea National University of Education)
Jin, Sun-Hee (Kuro Elementary School)
Jung, Sung-An (Korea National University of Education)
Kwon, Jae-Sool (Korea National University of Education)
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Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education / v.22, no.4, 2002 , pp. 862-871 More about this Journal
Abstract
We investigated elementary students' conceptions of the simple electric circuit using a battery, a bulb and a wire, and made comparison between the cognitive conflict through peer discussion and the cognitive conflict through physical experience. Two hundred and sixty-four sixth grade students who already had learned about the electric circuit were participated. The questionnaire to investigate the student's conceptions about simple electric circuit consisted of 5 items drawing the wire connections between a battery and a bulb to light the bulb. The students in the discussion group paired randomly with student who had different conceptions, and then each pairs discussed about their ideas freely with each other. After discussion they conducted CCLT(Cognitive Conflict Level Test) which consisted of 4 factors; recognition, interest, anxiety, reappraisal. The physical experience group conducted a task in which they connected a battery and a bulb with a wire, then conducted CCLT. The sixth graders had various misconceptions. Most students were not aware of the scope of negative battery terminal and two electric terminals of a bulb. Many students emphasized the tip of a bulb and positive battery terminal. The score of CCLT in the discussion group was higher than in the physical experience group. This results showed that discussion with peers was more effective than physical experience to arouse cognitive conflict.
Keywords
cognitive conflict; peer discussion; physical experience; electric circuit;
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