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  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 2006  > August  >
Research: Science and Education
Prospective Teachers' Misconceptions of Vaporization and Vapor Pressure
Nurtaç Canpolat, Tacettin Pinarbasi, and Mustafa Sözbilir
K. K. Education Faculty, Department of Science and Mathematics Education, Ataturk University, 25240 Erzurum, Turkey
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August 2006
Vol. 83 No. 8
p. 1237
Abstract
This study aimed to determine students' misconceptions related to vaporization and vapor pressure. In order to fulfill this aim, open-ended diagnostic questions and semi-structured interviews were used. The diagnostic questions were administered to 70 third-year students enrolled in the Primary Science Teacher Training Department at Ataturk University in Turkey. In addition, 12 students were interviewed in order to clarify their written responses and to further probe students' conceptual understandings of the questions asked in the test. Seven different misconceptions were identified. The results have implications for tertiary-level teaching, suggesting that a substantial review of teaching strategies is needed.
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*  Citation
 Canpolat, Nurtaç; Pinarbasi, Tacettin; Sözbilir, Mustafa. J. Chem. Educ. 2006 83 1237.
*  Keywords
 Chemical Education Research; Equilibrium; Liquids; Misconceptions / Discrepant Events; Upper-Division Undergraduate
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6/28/2006
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