Sentence examples for conceptions held from inspiring English sources

The questions are: (a) what are the conceptions held by primary school teachers of the concepts of evolutionary theory which they have to teach?

This paper explores the constructions and conceptions held by residents in rural areas regarding the biodiversity of agricultural landscapes.

The first step in helping students recognize their own misconceptions is to identify them as well as the prevalence of any scientifically correct conceptions held by them.

After several rounds of development, the DCI satisfies a number of criteria for a useful CI to assess student understanding and the prevalence of alternative conceptions held by undergraduates concerning dominance and phenotypic expression of alleles.

Belief a proposition or conception held by an individual to be true, regardless of whether that individual has particular empirical causes for doing so; beliefs have less rigid criteria than knowledge or acceptance and can be "extrarational" and "have little correspondence with the outside world" (Southerland et al. 2001).

One of the researchers, AB, had no involvement in the project prior to the analysis, and as a non-clinician with experience in qualitative methods her contribution to the analysis and the discussions concerning the analysis also helped to balance ant pre-conceptions held by PC and SM, both academic GPs.

Concept inventories are multiple-choice (MC) assessment tools in which each response option represents an alternate conception held by students (Garvin-Doxas et al., 2007; D'Avanzo, 2008).

That conception holds that, as in the "Matrix" movies, the universe itself is basically a giant computer, twiddling an array of 1's and 0's in essentially the same way any desktop PC does.

The simplest abundant conception holds that every well-formed predicate expresses a property.

Hooker said that he grew in his opinions and gave up narrow conceptions previously held.

Therefore, the GeDI does not test for understanding of the novice conceptions often held in stage 1.