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The Effects of Writing-to-Learn Activities on Elementary Students' Conceptual Understanding: Learning about Force and Motion through Writing to Older Peers
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Chen, Ying-Chih; Hand, Brian; McDowell, Leah – Science Education, 2013
This quasi-experimental and pre/posttest study was designed to examine whether fourth-grade students who engaged in collaboratively writing letters to 11th-grade students performed better on tests of conceptual understanding of a unit on force and motion than students who did not. The participants included 835 fourth-grade students and 416…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Pretests Posttests, Grade 4, Grade 11
Sequencing Embedded Multimodal Representations in a Writing to Learn Approach to the Teaching of Electricity
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Hand, Brian; Gunel, Murat; Ulu, Cuneyt – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2009
In the study of science topics especially in physics students are expected to move between different modes of representation when dealing with a particular concept as any science concept can be represented in several different modes. The difficulty for students is that they are often unable to move between these multi-modal representations and…
Descriptors: Physics, Test Construction, Science Education, Visual Aids
Comparing Student Understanding of Quantum Physics when Embedding Multimodal Representations into Two Different Writing Formats: Presentation Format versus Summary Report Format
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Gunel, Murat; Hand, Brian; Gunduz, Sevket – Science Education, 2006
Physics as a subject for school students requires an understanding and ability to move between different modes of representation for the concepts under review. However, the inability of students to have a multimodal understanding of the concepts is seen as restricting their understandings of the concepts. The aim of this study was to explore the…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Quantum Mechanics, Physics, Science Instruction