And also, the EG students are better in remediating their alternative conceptions related to the PNM and transformations during the phase changes.
Participants' conceptions related to the nature of evolution, including the roles of randomness, the environment in evolutionary processes, and adaptation, were addressed in statements 11 through 14. Figure 3 illustrates the responses to each of these statements.
Interview protocols were developed based on known student alternate conceptions related to these concepts and on expert understanding of these concepts received from six participants in the interdisciplinary life sciences workshop (see the Supplemental Material).
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We identified a number of alternative conceptions relating to population genetics, Mendelian genetics, and specifically phenotypic expression of allelic pairs, in the literature and interviews.
The second aspect (ii), involves conceptions related to external factors described as the absence of resources and cooperation, a deficient management organisation related to the handling of childhood overweight in CHC and a lack of uniform guidelines.
Additionally, the DCI focuses on a subset of potential concepts and alternative conceptions related to Mendelian and population genetics, and therefore should not be used as the sole summative assessment instrument in courses.
To summarise, CHC-nurses conceptions were related to perceived obstacles to their work with childhood overweight which are divided into two main aspects; (i) conceptions related to internal factors described as the way nurses make priorities, take responsibility and their lack of knowledge.
Howard et al. (2013, p. 51) noted that college students have "several naive conceptions related to chemistry and greenhouse gases" that prevent them from correctly conceptualizing the related scientific processes and phenomena.
Hence, students often form alternative or incomplete scientific conceptions related to thermal physics well before they begin learning it in the science classroom.
