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Combining different conceptual change methods within four-step constructivist teaching model: a sample teaching of series and parallel circuits

Hava İpek¹* and Muammer Çalık¹

¹Karadeniz Technical University, Turkey

Email: havaipek@hotmail.com

*Correspondence to Faculty of Education, Karadeniz Technical Universitty, Trabzon, Turkey

Abstract

Based on students’ alternative conceptions of the topics ‘electric circuits’, ‘electric charge flows within an electric circuit’, ‘how the brightness of bulbs and the resistance changes in series and parallel circuits’, the current study aims to present a combination of different conceptual change methods within four-step constructivist teaching model. Therefore, the author assumes that such a design may give a chance to eliminate students’ alternative conceptions fully. Also, some suggestions were made for further research.

Received 20 February 2008; Accepted 28 May 2008

Reference

Ipek, H. & Çalık, M. (2008). Combining different conceptual change methods within four-step constructivist teaching model: a sample teaching of series and parallel circuits, International Journal of Environmental & Science Education, 3(3), 143-153.