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    An exploration of secondary students' mental states when learning about acids and bases

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    Authors
    Liu, C.
    Hou, I.
    Chiu, H.
    Treagust, David
    Date
    2013
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Liu, Chia-Ju and Hou, I-Lin and Chiu, Houn-Lin and Treagust, David F. 2013. An exploration of secondary students' mental states when learning about acids and bases. Research in Science Education. 44 (1): pp. 133-154.
    Source Title
    Research in Science Education
    DOI
    10.1007/s11165-013-9373-y
    ISSN
    0157244X
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    The final publication is available at Springer via http://doi.org/10.1007/s11165-013-9373-y

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/32217
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    This study explored factors of students’ mental states, including emotion, intention, internal mental representation, and external mental representation, which can affect their learning performance. In evaluating students’ mental states during the science learning process and the relationship between mental states and learning achievement, valid, reliable, and scalable measures of students’ mental states and learning achievement are needed. This paper presents the development of the Mental State Conceptual Learning Inventory (MSCLI) to identify students’ mental states before and after learning about acids and bases. This instrument is time efficient and convenient and can be administered to large student samples so that teachers and researchers can gain profound insights into their students’ learning of acids and bases in science class. The results of this study indicate that students’ mental states are highly correlated with their achievement. As a whole, low-achieving students tended to have negative emotions and low intentions, were not good at internal visualization, and were unable to interpret graphics and draw pictures. In contrast, high-achieving students had positive emotions and intentions when learning life-related topics about acids and bases, and were good at internal visualization and drawing and interpreting graphics.

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