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http://dx.doi.org/10.5467/JKESS.2007.28.6.645

Investigation of High School Students' Mental Models about the Earth's Interior  

Jeong, Ku-Song (Yang Jae High School)
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Journal of the Korean earth science society / v.28, no.6, 2007 , pp. 645-654 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate students' mental models and alternative conceptions about the Earth's interior. A total of 126 10th grade students participated in this study. They were requested to draw Earth's interior tasks and were interviewed about their mental models. A coding frame was designed to classify the students' drawings and interview responses, and then a four step cognitive model was established based on the frame of coding. In addition, the relationship of mental models was compared in terms of students' gender, and the type of alternative conceptions was analysed. The research results showed a variety of alternative conceptions on the interior of the Earth. The classified mental models showed naive mental model (11%), unstable mental model (81%), conceptual model (8%), while 69% of all sampled students accounted for the static process. The gender difference in the cognitive model showed no statistical significance.
Keywords
mental model; alternative conception; earth's interior; drawing task;
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