Learning science: conceptual understanding

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Dear Reader! You are hereby invited to help us build up a bank of European science education abstracts of doctoral theses. You may submit an abstract of your own dissertation, or encourage your colleagues or students to do so. Our editorial policy on this web site is to publish science education dissertation abstracts from European universities. We also publish abstracts from non-European countries if a thesis has been supervised or written by an ESERA member.

Mustafa Sozbilir

A Study of Undergraduates’ Understandings of Key Chemical Ideas in Thermodynamics The university of York, United Kingdom E-mail: sozbilir@atauni.edu.tr

Gülcan Çetin

The effect of conceptual change instruction on understanding of ecology concepts Middle East Technical University, Turkey Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hamide ErtepinarCo-Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Canan Nakiboglu E-mail: gcetin@metu.edu.tr or: gulcan_cetin@hotmail.com

Carl Angell

Students understanding of physics. A study based on selected physics items in TIMSS University of Oslo, Norway E-mail: carl.angell@fys.uio.no

Iztok Devetak

Explaining the latent structure of understanding submicrorepresentations in science University of Ljubljana, Slovenia e-mail: iztok.devetak@pef.uni-lj.si

Mónica Edwards Schachter

The attention paid to the state of the World in science education(La atención a la situación del mundo en la educación científica) Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Supervisor: Vilches Peña, Amparo and Gil Pérez, Daniel E-mail: moed@ingenio.upv.es

Majken Korsager

“Globalizing the science classroom”. Exploring development of students’ conceptual understanding of climate change from international peer collaboration University of Oslo, Norway E-mail: majken.korsager@naturfagsenteret.no

Berit S. Haug

Teaching for conceptual understanding in science within an integrated inquiry-based science and literacy setting University of Oslo, Norway E-mail: berit.haug@naturfagsenteret.no

Cristina Silvia Hansen Ruiz

Concepts related to stars. Corpus linguistics of astronomy Universidad de La Laguna, Spain Supervisor: Dr. Jesús Pérez Ceballos E-mail: chansen@ull.es , cs.hansenruiz@cantab.net

Francesca Bradamante

Field Lines: hinge for the understanding of field concept Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy Supervisors: Prof. Marisa Michelini                    Prof. Laurence Viennot E-mail: fbradamante@hotmail.com

Maria Ausenda Baptista da Costa

Conceptual Change Learning in Biology – a study on the concept of regulation system. University of Minho, Portugal Supervisor: Professor Manuel Sequeira e-mail : rdd39613@mail.telepac.pt

Michal Drechsler

Textbooks’, teachers’, and students’ understanding of models used to explain acid-base reactions (licentiate thesis) Karlstad University, Sweden E-mail: michal.drechsler@kau.se

Olle Eskilsson

A longitudinal study on 10-12-yoear-olds´conceptions of the transformations of matter Göteborg University, Sweden E-mail: olle.eskilsson@staff.hkr.se

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