scholarly journals Promoting conceptual change of learning sorting algorithm through the diagnosis of mental models: The effects of gender and learning styles

2010 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 275-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilfred W.F. Lau ◽  
Allan H.K. Yuen
Keyword(s):  
Learning Styles ◽  
Conceptual Change ◽  
Mental Models ◽  
Sorting Algorithm

scholarly journals Professionalizing Pre-Service Biology Teachers’ Misconceptions about Learning and the Brain through Conceptual Change

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Finja Grospietsch ◽  
Jürgen Mayer
Keyword(s):  
Learning Styles ◽  
Conceptual Change ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Long Term Potentiation ◽  
University Education ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
Biology Teachers ◽  
University Course ◽  
The University ◽  
The Brain

Scientific concepts of learning and the brain are relevant for biology teachers in two ways: Firstly, the topic is an object of instruction (e.g., long-term potentiation). Secondly, biology teachers must guide their students towards sustainable learning. Consequently, their own understanding of learning and the brain has an especially far-reaching influence on students. Pre-service biology teachers endorse so-called “neuromyths,” misconceptions on the subject of learning and the brain (e.g., the existence of learning styles) even though they cover neuroscientific content during their studies. These misconceptions remain relatively stable throughout university education and practical training. In this paper, we transfer the teaching and learning model of conceptual change to the university context. We investigate whether and to what extent a university course developed in accordance with a professional conceptual change model can reduce pre-service biology teachers’ endorsement of neuromyths. In a pre-post-design, 57 university students were asked about their professional knowledge, beliefs, neuromyths, and perception and utilization of the university course. We found a positive effect of the intervention on all three elements of students’ conceptual understanding. The results show that explicitly refuting misconceptions about learning and the brain (e.g., via conceptual change texts) helps to professionalize neuromyths.

scholarly journals Visual learning style-based chemistry mental model representation through transformative online learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 2104 (1) ◽  
pp. 012023
Author(s):  
A Winarti ◽  
A Almubarak ◽  
P Saadi
Keyword(s):  
Learning Styles ◽  
Mental Models ◽  
Learning Style ◽  
Chemistry Education ◽  
Visual Learning ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Chemistry Learning ◽  
Kinaesthetic Learning ◽  
Learning Concept

Abstract Analysis of learning styles is one of the main things teachers need to do before carrying out teaching. The study of learning styles can provide an overview of how a teacher designs a learning concept by students’ learning styles. The learning process will show students’ mental models with their respective learning styles so that these mental models become the primary material for how teachers develop students’ cognitive. This research aimed to describe students’ mental models in terms of students’ visual learning styles. The method used is descriptive with qualitative and quantitative approaches with transformative-based learning concepts. The research results show that chemistry education students for chemistry learning innovation courses only have visual learning styles of 71.43% and audio by 28.55% and do not have kinaesthetic learning styles. This research focuses on visual learning styles to see students’ mental models. The conclusion is that students still need cognitive strengthening, especially the ability to interpret phenomena at the sub microscopic level. With the visual learning style, students are expected to transform their cognitive so that they have mental structures and models relevant in theory and terminology.

Mental models of the earth: A study of conceptual change in childhood

1992 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 535-585 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stella Vosniadou ◽  
William F Brewer
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Change ◽  
Mental Models ◽  
The Earth
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