Sentence examples for scientific conceptions from inspiring English sources

We show that those teachers have principally non scientific conceptions about the astronomical notions they will have to teach.

We analyse their responses with regard to the elementary school programs and to the expected scientific conceptions.

In the approach we describe here, three instructional strategies are useful for helping students replace misconceptions with scientific conceptions: (1) eliciting students' naive conceptions, (2) challenging non-scientific conceptions, and (3) emphasizing conceptual frameworks (Posner et al. 1982; Vosniadou 2008).

Regression results indicated that hold of scientific conceptions is the best predicator for students' conceptual change, followed by argumentation ability.

[Instructors must help students reflect on their prior "scientific" conceptions or procedures, not on their prior religious conceptions or procedures.

This is to privilege vision merely for terminological convenience, and differs from scientific conceptions of observability, which generally extend to things that are detectable using instruments (Shapere 1982).

Like Hume, he tried to reconcile a scientific conception of the world with how it actually appears to us.

Relativity changed the scientific conception of the universe, which began in efforts to grasp the dynamic behaviour of matter.

A barrier to an integrated view exists due to a disagreement with an accepted scientific conception.

It is an interesting question to what extent Xunzi held a scientific conception of nature.

The four elements come closest to a scientific conception of matter.