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Table 1 Topics taught and instruments used to measure conceptual change

From: ‘Even though it might take me a while, in the end, I understand it’: a longitudinal case study of interactions between a conceptual change strategy and student motivation, interest and confidence

Topic (Grade; No of TFA lessons)

Instrument

Source

Thermal Energy (9; 6)

Thermal Concept Evaluation (TCE)

(Yeo & Zadnik, 2001)

Electricity (9; 3)

Evidence Based Practice in Science Education (Set 2) (EPSE-Set2)

(Millar, 2002)

Newton’s Laws (10; 6)

Force Concept Inventory (FCI)

(Hestenes, Wells, & Swackhamer, 1992)

Genetics (10; 7)

Scientific Reasoning in Genetics (SRG)

(Tsui & Treagust, 2010)

Natural Selection (10; 3)

Concept Inventory of Natural Selection (CINS)

(Anderson, Fisher, & Norman, 2002)