- Quotation from Tyson et al. (1997, p.397)
Until 1993, empirical research had focused primarily on the cognitive aspects of conceptual change (Smith, Blakesbee, & Anderson, 1993).
Venville and Treagust (1996) utilized four different perspectives of conceptual change to analyse different classroom teaching situations in which analogies were used to teach biology concepts. The perspectives they used include
- Posner et al.’s (1982) conceptual change model,
- Vosniadou’s (1994) framework theory and mental model perspective,
- Chi et al.’s (1994) ontological category perspective, and
- Pintrich et al.’s (1993) motivational perspective.
They found that each of the perspectives of conceptual change had explanatory value and contributed a different theoretical perspective to interpreting the role that analogies plaued in each of the classroom situations.
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