Sentence examples for changes in conceptions from inspiring English sources
However, Guskey [ 14] stated that changes in teaching practice preceed changes in conceptions.
It has been suggested previously that developments in the alcohol treatment research literature since 1940 'are caused less by accumulating scientific knowledge than by changes in conceptions and structurings of research and knowledge' (11, p. 193).
Some authors claim that change in conceptions about teaching is a necessary prerequisite to changing instruction (Ho et al., 2001), while others claim the opposite; that is, change in teaching practices occurs before change in beliefs (Guskey, 2000).
Rather than measuring learning outcome as performance, in phenomenographic studies, we are measuring learning outcomes as change in conceptions of or approach to the learning object (Micari et al. 2007).
Change in conceptions can be thought of as learning that enables the learner to experience a phenomenon in a way she or he has not been able to experience it previously (Marton and Booth 1997).
The aesthetic effects of this drastic change in conception of the composer's task and potential were immediate and far reaching.
Our study explored this hypothesis guided by the following questions: Do changes in NOS conceptions correlate with changes in attitudes towards evolution or GCC?
This study also aims to expose the challenges encountered by those teachers and the relationship between their challenges and changes in their conceptions of scientific inquiry.
Changes in NOS conceptions, as measured by the normalized gains of total scores on the TSSI, are significantly positively correlated with changes in attitudes towards evolution, measured by normalized gains of total scores on the MATE tool.
Though many authors suggest that NOS understanding plays a role in the acceptance of evolution, the positive link between changes in NOS conceptions and attitudes towards evolution has, until this study, been poorly understood.
