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Concepts of Matter in Science Education

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction: Concepts of Matter – Complex to Teach and Difficult to Learn
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    Chapter 2 Learning Progression Developed to Support Students in Building a Particle Model of Matter
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    Chapter 3 How Students’ Understanding of Particle Theory Develops: A Learning Progression
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    Chapter 4 Implicit Assumptions and Progress Variables in a Learning Progression About Structure and Motion of Matter
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    Chapter 5 At the Beginning Was Amount of Material: A Learning Progression for Matter for Early Elementary Grades
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    Chapter 6 Understanding of Basic Particle Nature of Matter Concepts by Secondary School Students Following an Intervention Programme
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    Chapter 7 The Use of Multiple Perspectives of Conceptual Change to Investigate Students’ Mental Models of Gas Particles
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    Chapter 8 The Atom as a Tiny Solar System: Turkish High School Students’ Understanding of the Atom in Relation to a Common Teaching Analogy
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    Chapter 9 A Study on the Exploratory Use of Microscopic Models as Investigative Tools: The Case of Electrostatic Polarization
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    Chapter 10 Teacher Pathways Through the Particulate Nature of Matter in Lower Secondary School Chemistry: Continuous Switching Between Different Models or a Coherent Conceptual Structure?
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    Chapter 11 What Do We Know About Students’ Beliefs? Changes in Students’ Conceptions of the Particulate Nature of Matter from Pre-instruction to College
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    Chapter 12 Diagnostic Assessment of Student Understanding of the Particulate Nature of Matter: Decades of Research
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    Chapter 13 Dynamic Visualizations: Tools for Understanding the Particulate Nature of Matter
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    Chapter 14 From the Scientific to the Educational: Using Monte Carlo Simulations of the Microkosmos for Science Education by Inquiry
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    Chapter 15 Can Simple Particle Models Support Satisfying Explanations of Chemical Changes for Young Students?
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    Chapter 16 How Do Students Reason About Chemical Substances and Reactions?
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    Chapter 17 Developing Chemical Understanding in the Explanatory Vacuum: Swedish High School Students’ Use of an Anthropomorphic Conceptual Framework to Make Sense of Chemical Phenomena
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    Chapter 18 Teaching and Learning of the Chemical Bonding Concept: Problems and Some Pedagogical Issues and Recommendations
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    Chapter 19 A Common Core to Chemical Conceptions: Learners’ Conceptions of Chemical Stability, Change and Bonding
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    Chapter 20 Macro–Micro Thinking with Structure–Property Relations: Integrating ‘Meso-levels’ in Secondary Education
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    Chapter 21 Learning and Teaching the Basic Quantum Chemical Concepts
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    Chapter 22 Investigating the Historical Development of the Concept of Matter: Controversies About/In Ancient Atomism
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    Chapter 23 Toward a Scientifically Sound Understanding of Concepts of Matter
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Title
Concepts of Matter in Science Education
Published by
Springer Netherlands, January 2013
DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-5914-5
ISBNs
978-9-40-075913-8, 978-9-40-075914-5
Editors

Tsaparlis, Georgios, Sevian, Hannah

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Country Count As %
United States 3 3%
Malaysia 2 2%
Spain 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 112 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 28 24%
Student > Master 22 18%
Student > Bachelor 13 11%
Professor > Associate Professor 10 8%
Lecturer 10 8%
Other 28 24%
Unknown 8 7%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 51 43%
Chemistry 35 29%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 3%
Physics and Astronomy 3 3%
Sports and Recreations 3 3%
Other 13 11%
Unknown 11 9%