Teaching about Water Relations in Plant Cells: An Uneasy Struggle.

ABSTRACT: University students often struggle to understand the role of water in plant cells. In particular, osmosis and plasmolysis appear to be challenging topics. This study attempted to identify student difficulties (including misconceptions) concerning osmosis and plasmolysis and examined to what extent the difficulties could be revised during a plant physiology course. A questionnaire was developed to monitor university students' conceptual knowledge before and after a course, and both qualitative and quantitative data were obtained. The data were analyzed using the constant comparison technique and descriptive statistics. Students were found to come to university with many misconceptions that had accumulated during their education. These misconceptions are extremely difficult to change during

SUBMITTER: Malinska L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5132375 | biostudies-literature | Winter 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature