小学生朴素热概念的发展

概念转变是认知发展与教育领域的热点话题之一，但关于小学生对于热概念的转变研究仍处于萌芽阶段。本研究抽取了某小学一、三、六年级学生共104名，采用三种任务情境考察了他们在热概念方面的认识水平。研究发现：一年级学生主要将热看作是一种物质，用物质模型理解热作为一个过程概念具有的速度属性。三年级学生热的物质概念和过程概念的认识并存，能够正确认识过程概念的速度和方向两个重要属性。六年级学生对于热作为一个过程概念所应具有属性的认知较为稳固，但未发生进一步的转变，他们还不能将热作为一个自发过程概念来理解。此研究结果部分

Development of Pupils' Naive Heat Concept

Currently,conceptual change is a hot topic in cognitive development and education,but there are few studies on pupils’ heat conceptual change.In the present study,three context-sensitive tasks were employed in a sample of 104 students from first,third and sixth grade,in an effort to explore their understanding about heat concept.The results indicated that first grade students mainly saw heat as a matter and used the motion of a matter to explain the speed attribute of process concept.Attributes of matter and processes coexisted in third grade students’ minds of heat.They developed the understanding of both speed and direction attributes of heat concept.Sixth grade students were able to establish a stable belief about attributes of a process concept of heat.However,lacking branch jumping,they had not seen heat as an emergent process yet.This study partly tested Chi’s theory of conceptual change for learning process concepts.