Categories: Alternative conceptions
An example of how a learner understood the status of theories:
"[a theory is] sort of like a myth…like a story, that you don't know the answer to, it's just what you think what would happen"
'Christine', 13-14 year old reported in Taber, K. S., Billingsley, B., Riga, F., & Newdick, H. (2015). English secondary students' thinking about the status of scientific theories: consistent, comprehensive, coherent and extensively evidenced explanations of aspects of the natural world – or just 'an idea someone has'. The Curriculum Journal, 1-34. doi: 10.1080/09585176.2015.1043926
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