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Alex H. Johnstone
Researcher at University of Glasgow
Publications - 72
Citations - 4973
Alex H. Johnstone is an academic researcher from University of Glasgow. The author has contributed to research in topics: Science education & Higher education. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 71 publications receiving 4657 citations.
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Why is science difficult to learn? Things are seldom what they seem
TL;DR: In this paper, the difficulties of learning science are related to the nature of science itself and to the methods by which science is customarily taught without regard to what is known about children's learning.
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Teaching of chemistry - logical or psychological?
TL;DR: For example, the authors explores the possibilities, for the curriculum, of a psychological approach in terms of curricular order, the gradual development of concepts, the function of laboratory work and the place of quantitative ideas.
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Revisiting learning difficulties in biology
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors tried to locate the root causes of this by interviewing students and teachers, and by consulting examiners' reports, and found that the water transport problems are largely disappeared, but the genetics difficulties have remained.
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Investigation of students' cognitive structure in elementary genetics through word association tests
TL;DR: In this paper, a word association test was used to map the cognitive structure of areas of elementary genetics in first-year biology students and the results showed that the students generated many ideas related to given key words, but they did not appear to see the overall picture as a network of related ideas.