ONE HUNDRED CORE CONCEPTS IN CHEMISTRY AND UPPER-SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS’ AND STUDENTS’ CHEMISTRY CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURES

IF 1.1 4区 教育学 Q3 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH Journal of Baltic Science Education Pub Date : 2023-06-20 DOI:10.33225/jbse/23.22.493
Yangyi Qian, Yangqian Wang, Jinju Wen, Simin Wu, Jijia Zhang
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A solid grasp of basic concepts and their relationships can stimulate learning motivation, improve teaching quality, and help students to build a body of knowledge in a discipline. Most of the previous studies have considered one chemistry topic amongst many others. To date, no studies have been conducted to explore the conceptual structures of teachers and students based on chemical concepts. Experts, teachers, and students (N=2348) from three public universities and ten upper-secondary schools in China participated in the studies. In Study 1, personal interviews, material evaluation, and importance rating questionnaires were conducted to determine the core concepts. In Study 2, the multidimensional scaling (MDS) and cluster analysis (CA) were conducted to explore the conceptual structures of upper-secondary school teachers and students. Then the structural differences between high- and low-achieving students were compared. The results showed that the three-dimensional solutions were appropriate for the conceptual structures of teachers and students, respectively. The high-achieving students have a more scientific and organized conceptual structure than those of low-achieving students. This study is the first to explore core concepts and their structure with a large sample size, and the reliable results help students understand abstract chemical concepts and improve their interest in scientific disciplines in the future. Keywords: conceptual structure, core concepts in chemistry, multidimensional scaling, cluster analysis, upper-secondary school students
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化学100个核心概念与高中师生化学概念结构
扎实掌握基本概念及其相互关系,可以激发学习动机,提高教学质量,帮助学生建立学科知识体系。以前的大多数研究都考虑了一个化学主题和许多其他主题。到目前为止,还没有进行任何研究来探索基于化学概念的教师和学生的概念结构。来自中国三所公立大学和十所高中的专家、教师和学生(N=2348)参与了研究。在研究1中,进行了个人访谈、材料评估和重要性评级问卷,以确定核心概念。在研究2中,采用多维量表(MDS)和聚类分析(CA)对高中师生的概念结构进行了探索。然后比较了成绩高和成绩低的学生之间的结构差异。结果表明,三维解分别适用于教师和学生的概念结构。成绩好的学生比成绩差的学生有更科学、更有条理的概念结构。这项研究首次以大样本量探索核心概念及其结构,可靠的结果有助于学生理解抽象的化学概念,提高他们未来对科学学科的兴趣。关键词:概念结构,化学核心概念,多维标度,聚类分析,高中生
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