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http://dx.doi.org/10.5467/JKESS.2007.28.4.415

Characteristics of High School Students 'Conceptual Understanding about Minerals and Rocks  

Wee, Soo-Meen (Department of Earth Science Education, Korea National University of Education)
Cho, Hyun-Jun (Department of Earth Science Education, Korea National University of Education)
Kim, Jun-Suk (Bucheon Jung-Heung High School)
Kim, Yun-Ji (Department of Earth Science Education, Korea National University of Education)
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Journal of the Korean earth science society / v.28, no.4, 2007 , pp. 415-430 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the characteristics of high school students' conceptual understanding about minerals and rocks. A questionnaire was developed to examine students' conceptions of minerals and rocks. The data were collected from 93 students in 10th and 119 students in 11th grades in a high school. The result showed that students' understanding of minerals and rock was on the moderate level. The 10th grade students showed a relatively lower level of understanding about igneous rocks while the degree of the 11th graders' understanding about certain concepts related with melting point in the rock domain was a little bit lower than the average. Although the understanding levels between the two grade levels were similar, there were some items for which students understanding seemed to be more sophisticated with the grade. In the questions about the characteristic of basalt surface, however, the frequencies of non-scientific conceptions were not decreased, rather increased along with the grade. It was also found that the conceptions students acquired from other science lessons as well as earth science classrooms did rather interfere with students' construction of the scientific concepts of minerals and rocks even though sometimes they were helpful for learning. It was suggested that the teachers should understand that some specific terms in earth science have different meanings as they were used in other subjects.
Keywords
minerals; rocks; high school students; scientific concept;
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