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ScottP. Buzzolani; Matthew J. Mistretta; Aleksandra E. Bugajczyk; Arun J. Sam; Samantha R. Elezi; Daniel L. Silverio – Journal of Chemical Education, 2025
The ability to extract structural information from a drawing of a molecule is key to being successful in organic chemistry. One source of difficulty for novices in interpreting structures is that hydrogens bound to carbon are represented implicitly in the often-used line-angle structures. Other representations that explicitly show hydrogens, such…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Science Instruction, Chemistry, Organic Chemistry
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Kennedy Kam Ho Chan; David Siu Pan Lau; Jan van Driel – Science Education, 2025
Cultivating in preservice science teachers (PSTs) the competence required to teach scientific models and modeling is a valued outcome of teacher preparation programs. However, science teacher educators face inherent tensions when designing and implementing teacher preparation experiences to achieve this outcome. In this systematic review, we first…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education, Teacher Educators, Science Teachers
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Shi-Huan Guo; Yixuan Zhu; Junlong Zhao – Journal of Chemical Education, 2025
Teaching the three-dimensional structure of saccharides has consistently been a challenging aspect of organic chemistry courses, impeding students' ability to grasp more advanced topics in biochemistry and food chemistry. In this article, we designed and developed a novel d-glucopyranose model using 3D printing technology for the first time. This…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Organic Chemistry
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Yidnekachew Awraris Kebede; Firew Kebede Zema; Girma Moti Geletu; Samuel Assefa Zinabu – SAGE Open, 2025
The jigsaw model is a dynamic cooperative learning approach where students become experts on different segments of the material and teach their peers, thereby enhancing engagement accountability, team work, and ultimately improving academic achievement. This study investigated the effectiveness of a cooperative learning strategy on secondary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cooperative Learning, Science Achievement, Biology
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Kimberly Carroll Steward; David Gosselin; Devarati Bhattacharya; Mark Chandler; Cory T. Forbes – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2025
Foregrounding climate education in formal science learning environments provides students with opportunities to develop critical climate-related knowledge and skills. However, research has shown many challenges to teaching and learning about Earth's climate and global climate change (GCC). This longitudinal study aims to establish how secondary…
Descriptors: Climate, Ecology, Environmental Education, Longitudinal Studies
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Vanessa Cappelle; Luiz Gustavo Franco; Danusa Munford – Science & Education, 2025
The paper reports how a teacher and her students use drawings as a resource for observations and how such observations are connected to different epistemic practices in science lessons. Interactional data in a 1st grade classroom were analyzed based on Ethnography in Education. Results show that the use of drawings materialized children's…
Descriptors: Freehand Drawing, Epistemology, Grade 1, Elementary School Science
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Tamar Fuhrmann; Leah Rosenbaum; Aditi Wagh; Adelmo Eloy; Jacob Wolf; Paulo Blikstein; Michelle Wilkerson – Science Education, 2025
When learning about scientific phenomena, students are expected to "mechanistically" explain how underlying interactions produce the observable phenomenon and "conceptually" connect the observed phenomenon to canonical scientific knowledge. This paper investigates how the integration of the complementary processes of designing…
Descriptors: Mechanics (Physics), Thinking Skills, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation
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Salvatore G. Garofalo – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2025
The initial learning experience is a critical opportunity to support conceptual understanding of abstract STEM concepts. Although hands-on activities and physical three-dimensional models are beneficial, they are seldom utilized and are replaced increasingly by digital simulations and laboratory exercises presented on touchscreen tablet computers.…
Descriptors: High School Freshmen, Science Instruction, Chemistry, Molecular Structure
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Stela-Marina Kostaki; Michalis Linardakis – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
The current study explores the preferences of primary school teachers on the characteristics of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)-based teaching via Discrete Choice Models (DCM). These models analyze the preferences of teachers towards alternatives that are formed by different characteristics. In this study we examined the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Preferences, Teaching Methods
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Lyrica Lucas; Anum Khushal; Robert Mayes; Brian A. Couch; Joseph Dauer – International Journal of Science Education, 2025
Educational reform priorities such as emphasis on quantitative modelling (QM) have positioned undergraduate biology instructors as designers of QM experiences to engage students in authentic science practices that support the development of data-driven and evidence-based reasoning. Yet, little is known about how biology instructors adapt to the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Science, Biology, Classroom Observation Techniques
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Amal Ibourk; Lauren Wagner; Khadija Zogheib – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2025
Elementary teachers require support through professional learning activities to enhance their climate change literacy and bolster their self-efficacy for teaching climate change. This study explores methods for supporting in-service elementary teachers' self-efficacy in climate change teaching by examining the impact of professional learning…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Climate, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Self Efficacy
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Sangwoo Ha – Science & Education, 2025
The importance of the philosophy of science in science teacher education has long been argued for by science educators. In particular, understanding how scientific knowledge is generated, negotiated, and developed is a key area of the philosophy of science that is relevant to science teaching. However, research on the nature of scientific…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Teacher Education Programs, Preservice Teachers
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Elijah St. Germain – Journal of Chemical Education, 2025
Many approaches to teaching Newman projections and conformational manipulation rely on lecturing using only two-dimensional representations. While molecular models are recognized as useful learning tools, students are often left to figure out how to use them during the initial learning process. The availability of basic online molecular models…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Science Instruction, Competency Based Education, Teaching Methods
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Alexis Buzzell; Timothy J. Atherton; Ramón Barthelemy – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
Quantum mechanics is an integral course for physics students. An understanding of quantum concepts is imperative for enrollment in physics graduate programs, participating in research within physics fields, and employment with companies developing quantum technologies. This study analyzes 188 U.S. research-intensive institutions' course catalogs…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Undergraduate Students, College Faculty, Physics