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1	Dear New Listmembers, Let me take this opportunity to mention the journal Foundations of Chemistry devoted to Interdisciplinary areas of chemistry including ...	Eric Scerri scerri@...	Feb 25, 2001 7:46 am
2	Greetings. I have developed an inorganic chemistry qualitative analysis diagnostic test for GCE 'O' level (Grade 10) chemistry. It is a 19-item 2-tier MCQ...	kcdtan@...	Feb 26, 2001 6:56 am
3	Dear Colleagues: contents: (1) Welcome (2) Membership (3) Exchanging files (1) Welcome. Thank you for joining the discussion list. We are only 2 days old, and...	Dr. Keith Taber kst24@...	Feb 26, 2001 8:03 am
4	short admin message Dear learning-science-concepts list member As e-mail lists can be set up in different ways (and I'm already detecting some confusion)...	Dr. Keith Taber kst24@...	Feb 27, 2001 9:19 am
5	... -- please reply to kst24@... Dr. Keith S. Taber Senior Lecturer in Science Education Homerton College, University of Cambridge Royal Society of...	Dr. Keith Taber kst24@...	Feb 28, 2001 7:33 am
6	I would like to thank Tony for his posting - I am pleased that the list is attracting teachers in primary education as they clearly have a very important role...	Dr. Keith Taber kst24@...	Feb 28, 2001 8:19 am
7	Greetings. We also need to consider that one cannot be certain of what the students actually meant by their oral or written statements. When we try to make ...	TAN Kim Chwee Daniel ... kcdtan@...	Feb 28, 2001 8:38 am
8	Daniel is absolutely correct in pointing about the messy nature of this area of research. When we read about a student's alternative conception in an article,...	Keith Taber kst24@...	Feb 28, 2001 9:27 am
9	Dear colleagues, The learning-science-concepts list is now in operation. This list has a particular flavour: it is for those interested in the exploring and ...	Keith Taber kst24@...	Feb 28, 2001 12:32 pm
10	... We should aks why we wish to focus on chemical and physical change. At Key Stage 2, the focus is on reversible and irreversible change. At Key Stage 4, the...	John Oversby j.p.oversby@...	Feb 28, 2001 4:24 pm
11	Having recently marked a set of KS2 [Key Stage 2 - this is 'junior' age group, ie c.7-11 year olds: KST] SATs [these are standard assessment tests that are...	Jacob Noel-Storr jake@...	Feb 28, 2001 5:27 pm
12	I think Jake is right to be concerned about this. I would just like to 'throw a spanner in the works' regardng his example of baking a cake. Of course I know...	Keith Taber kst24@...	Feb 28, 2001 5:28 pm
13	I like Keith Taber's analysis of 'where misconceptions come from' and I think he does a good job of highlighting the multiple sources. I might phrase the...	Philip Adey philip.adey@...	Feb 28, 2001 5:30 pm
14	I had hoped someone would respond to that point - and am honoured that it should be Prof. Adey. Philip's work in cognitive acceleration is very important, and...	Keith Taber kst24@...	Feb 28, 2001 5:35 pm
15	I entirely agree! Perhaps our concept of irreversible just comes from how much effort one is prepared to put in :-) ... A KS2 pupil is expected to try less...	Jacob Noel-Storr jake@...	Feb 28, 2001 7:25 pm
16	I don't consider myself "a chemist", but when I was teaching science at KS3 and 4 I never really like the idea of the difference between a chemical and a...	Andrew Raw andrew.raw@...	Feb 28, 2001 7:25 pm
17	... It would be helpful if some evidence were made available to help resolve this point. Surely the point is not how many people believe something, but...	Rod Watson rod.watson@...	Feb 28, 2001 7:27 pm
18	My understanding of Piaget's stage theory is along the lines that all individuals pass through the same developmental stages in their thinking, and that 1. a...	Keith Taber kst24@...	Feb 28, 2001 7:38 pm
19	HI Keith, please post if it seems relevant/useful. Not a proof here, but a personal story of observing a stage transition in my own daughter. Katey is now in...	Mike Bell mike@...	Mar 1, 2001 8:33 am
20	Hi Keith I have found that there does not seem to be a smooth development from simple scientific models to complex depending on the age of the children. ...	Tony Cuthbert tony.cuthbert@...	Mar 1, 2001 8:37 am
21	I am not sure what we can conclude from anecdote - but it is certainly interesting to read how colleagues interpret their family-based and classroom-based...	Dr. Keith Taber kst24@...	Mar 1, 2001 9:12 am
22	The great problem with the use of formation of a new substance is the difficulty of deciding when a new substance is formed. As an example, if I take some...	John Oversby j.p.oversby@...	Mar 1, 2001 9:13 am
23	Dear Colleagues 1. option of 1 composite message per day 2. repetition 3. acronyms 4. text styles 1. Please note that if you prefer not to get lots of separate...	Dr. Keith Taber kst24@...	Mar 1, 2001 10:41 am
24	Firstly, on the issue of physical/chemical and reversible/irreversible, whatever the academic quibbles, we have to live in the real world of the NC as it is,...	steve_gray@...	Mar 1, 2001 10:43 am
25	I agree. Especially about solutions. I've worked on the notion of purity and what people think about it. For many it means natural and untreated. Including...	C.Ryan C.Ryan@...	Mar 1, 2001 10:48 am
26	Is there a natural human tendency to look for stage theories? In response to the posting about the origins of alternative conceptions I suggested that there is...	Dr. Keith Taber kst24@...	Mar 1, 2001 10:54 am
27	Oh dear! ... The term academic quibbles is not defensible in such a list as this. I am sure you are an academic, too, just as I am a teacher, but the issue is...	John Oversby j.p.oversby@...	Mar 1, 2001 11:49 am
28	... From: steve_gray@... [mailto:steve_gray@...] Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 09:33 To: learning-science-concepts@... Cc:...	Rick Marshall richard.marshall@...	Mar 1, 2001 11:50 am
29	I am not an academic educationalist, but whether one regards Piagetian stages to be right or wrong does not seem to me - in my everyday classroom practice - to...	sc sc@...	Mar 2, 2001 7:56 am
30	Whether or not there is natural tendency to look for stages or not, I am intrigued by the stage at which one simply has to accept that something just is. It's...	sc sc@...	Mar 2, 2001 7:58 am

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