Evolution is the most investigated topic and text-reading the most common intervention type in biology conceptual change research¶

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Subclaims¶

q3 i? Evolution was the most common biological topic in conceptual change interventions, followed by photosynthesis. → Aleknavičiūtė 2023 q3 i? Text-reading interventions were the most common type, and most of the texts used were refutational texts. → Aleknavičiūtė 2023 (2)

Evidence¶

Aleknavičiūtė 2023¶

Aleknavičiūtė, V., Lehtinen, E., & Södervik, I. (2023). Thirty years of conceptual change research in biology – A review and meta-analysis of intervention studies. Educational Research Review. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.edurev.2023.100556

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Qualitative synthesis of the 96 included studies' topics: evolution leads (28 papers in Table 4), and "The second most frequently investigated topic was ‘photosynthesis’" (15 papers), followed by respiration, ecological concepts, genetics and circulatory systems.

"The most common biological topic in conceptual change interventions was ‘evolution’ (Table 4)."

Aleknavičiūtė 2023 (2)¶

Aleknavičiūtė, V., Lehtinen, E., & Södervik, I. (2023). Thirty years of conceptual change research in biology – A review and meta-analysis of intervention studies. Educational Research Review. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.edurev.2023.100556

q3 · i? · quant-synthesis · r3

Intervention-type coding across the 96 studies: "The most common intervention type was a text-reading intervention (25 studies)", of which 19 were refutational or conceptual change texts; other types included hands-on activities, simulations and games, concept maps, analogies and writing.

"The most common intervention type was a text-reading intervention (25 studies). More specifically, most of the texts used were refutational texts (19 studies out of 25)"

Discussion¶

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