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Yilmaz Soysal – Science & Education, 2025
The objective of this descriptive study is to provide a detailed examination of science teachers' perspectives regarding scientific knowledge, science learning, science concepts, and science teaching. A total of 304 science teachers created metaphors to express their cognitions about the epistemological aspects of their work. A specifically…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Epistemology, Teacher Attitudes, Science Instruction
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Sara J. Wahlberg; Jesper Haglund; Niklas M. Gericke – Research in Science Education, 2025
This study provides insights into the use of metaphors in protein synthesis descriptions in upper secondary chemistry and biology textbooks. Data were collected from seven Swedish textbooks and analyzed with the Metaphor Identification Protocol and categorized within the framework of Conceptual Metaphor Theory. The results reveal two main parallel…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Textbooks, Science Instruction, Secondary School Science
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Luiza Vilarta Rodriguez; Jan T. van der Veen; Ton de Jong – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
In this study, we explore the use of analogies with classical physics in introductory quantum physics (QP) teaching. This work is part of a larger project in which a learning sequence covering three introductory QP topics was designed, tested, and evaluated in collaboration with high school teachers and physics education researchers. Based on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Multimedia Materials, Physics
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Halil Yilmaz – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2025
The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of narrative anatomy education and traditional anatomy education on academic achievement. The study included 64 students who were randomly divided into two groups. The two groups were (n = 32) control (Group 1) and (n = 32) experimental (Group 2). The pretest scores of the two groups were 36.40…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Science Instruction, Undergraduate Students, Teaching Methods