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http://dx.doi.org/10.15523/JKSESE.2017.10.2.161

Elementary School Students' Arguments on Causes of Phases of the Moon and Concept Analysis  

Kim, Youngdae (Korea National University of Education)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Earth Science Education / v.10, no.2, 2017 , pp. 161-172 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to characterize students' conceptions on causes of the phases of the moon. For this purpose, students were given a worksheet for argumentative writing activity where in they need to choose the right answer between five statements and provide reasonable evidences about causes of the phases of the moon. Written arguments collected were used as analysis data and TAP(Toulmin's argument pattern) including conceptual analysis of TAP elements were utilized to figure out logical structures and subordinate conceptions. The result showed that students had various alternative concepts about causes of the phases of the moon and associated with celestial. Also 70.5% of subjects had incomplete argument structures, and error types of concepts had difference according to types of alternative concepts as well as TAP. These results mean that importance of checking students' preconceptions, need of scientific argumentation, and appropriate instructional strategies considering alternative conception types and fallacy types that students had.
Keywords
phases of the moon; alternative conception; misconception; scientific argument;
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