Undergraduate Biology Students' Teleological and Essentialist Misconceptions

• Main Authors: Florian Stern (Author), Kostas Kampourakis (Author), Catherine Huneault (Author), Patricia Silveira (Author), Andreas Müller (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2018-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Research in developmental psychology has shown that deeply-rooted, intuitive ways of thinking, such as design teleology and psychological essentialism, impact children’s scientific explanations about natural phenomena. Similarly, biology education researchers have found that students often hold inac...