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Aspects of Secondary Students’ Understanding of Heat
The report from the Children’s Learning in Science Project (CLIS) gives an account of a number of aspects of students’ ideas about heat including:
*Do students differentiate between heat and temperature?
*Do students appreciate that heat is needed to produce a change of state, and that temperature remains constant during a change of state?
*Do they understand change of state in terms of the particulate model of matter?
*How do students conceptualise the conduction of heat through materials?
Contents of the summary report
*Meanings of the word heat
*Issues investigated in this study
*How were the students’ understandings investigated?
*What were the findings?
*Main findings of the heat study
*What do these findings suggest for science teaching?
*Suggestions for teaching and learning
*Implications for curriculum planning
*Aspects of students’ ideas to watch for
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