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Lowell, Benjamin R.; Cherbow, Kevin; McNeill, Katherine L. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2022
A key goal of recent reforms in science education has been to support students' collective sensemaking, in which they work together to understand a natural phenomenon. This work is often done during class discussions, but facilitating those discussions is challenging. In this study, we used a framework of three discussion types to investigate how…
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), Science Instruction, Middle School Teachers, Comprehension
Soares, Sara; Gonçalves, Matilde; Jerónimo, Rita; Kolinsky, Régine – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2023
Narrative texts have been advocated as tools to tackle science learning challenges, and there is even the proposal of a "narrative effect" on learning. We believe it is necessary to examine previous evidence on this effect, as well as to characterize the process of learning through science narrative texts more broadly. In this article,…
Descriptors: Narration, Science Education, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
Sage Andersen; María González-Howard; Karina Méndez Pérez – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
This study explored a middle school science teacher's curricular sensemaking in interaction with their use of an educative storyline curriculum, aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards, that was intentionally designed for more opportunities for students' scientific sensemaking. Using a phenomenological case study methodology, we examined…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Curriculum Implementation, Science Curriculum
Vosniadou, Stella; Skopeliti, Irini – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2019
Research has shown that differences in the prior knowledge of the participants and in the learning indexes adopted can explain why some studies show positive learning effects of analogy enriched text while others do not. In the present studies, these two factors were combined into one through the construction of a learning index that measured…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, College Students, Science Education, Reading Comprehension
Gogolin, Sarah; Krüger, Dirk – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2018
The process of thinking in and about models as a scientific practice should be integrated into science teaching and learning. Empirical studies show that students see models primarily in their role as media to facilitate content learning while rarely appreciating models as instruments of scientists which allow the deduction and the testing of…
Descriptors: Models, Teaching Methods, Knowledge Level, Biology
Watkins, Jessica; Hammer, David; Radoff, Jennifer; Jaber, Lama Z.; Phillips, Anna M. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2018
Not understanding is central to scientific work: what scientists do is learn about the natural world, which involves seeking out what they do not know. In classrooms, however, the position of not-understanding is generally a liability; confusion is an unfortunate condition to resolve as quickly as possible, or to conceal. In this article, we argue…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Process Skills, Comprehension, Ambiguity (Context)
Apanasionok, Magdalena M.; Hastings, Richard P.; Grindle, Corinna F.; Watkins, Richard C.; Paris, Andreas – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2019
A comprehensive review of the literature was conducted to identify current practice on teaching science to students with intellectual disability (ID) and/or Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in relation to two review questions--students' science outcomes and students' and teachers' experiences of the interventions. Six databases related to education,…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Outcomes of Education, Intellectual Disability
Talanquer, Vicente; Bolger, Molly; Tomanek, Debra – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2015
The goal of this exploratory study was to analyze how beginning prospective secondary school teachers approached the analysis of student written responses to formative assessment probes. We sought to identify what elements of students' written work were noticed, what types of inferences of student understanding were built, and what these noticed…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, Responses
Yang, Fang-Ying – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2017
The main goal of this study was to investigate how readers' visual attention distribution during reading of conflicting science information is related to their scientific reasoning behavior. A total of 25 university students voluntarily participated in the study. They were given conflicting science information about earthquake predictions to read…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Scientific and Technical Information, Thinking Skills, Seismology
Jensen, Eric Allen – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2016
This article addresses some of the challenges faced when attempting to evaluate the long-term impact of informal science learning interventions. To contribute to the methodological development of informal science learning research, we critically examine (Falk and Needham (2011) "Journal of Research in Science Teaching," 48: 1-12.) study…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Science Education, Science Teaching Centers, Urban Population
Hufnagel, Elizabeth – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2015
Due to emotions' evaluative nature, they provide a lens for understanding personal and urgent engagement with events and experiences. Grounding this work in ethnography and sociolinguistics, I utilized discourse analysis to study the emotions of 30 preservice elementary teachers expressed about climate change in a science course. I describe the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Emotional Response, Psychological Patterns
Wang, Jing-Ru; Chen, Shin-Feng – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2014
This study used a Chinese-language version of the Index of Science Reading Awareness (ISRA) to investigate metacognitive awareness and the Reading Comprehension of Science Test (RCST) to explore comprehension of science text by Taiwanese students. Structural equation modeling (SEM) results confirmed the validity of the underlying models of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Metacognition, Reading Comprehension, Validity
Kloser, Matthew – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2013
Texts play an integral role in science research and science classrooms yet biology textbooks have traditionally failed to reflect the epistemic elements of the discipline such as justification of claims and visual representations of empirical data. This study investigates high school biology students' reading experiences when engaging more…
Descriptors: Secondary School Science, High School Students, Textbooks, Protocol Analysis
Yadav, Aman; Vinh, Megan; Shaver, Gregory M.; Meckl, Peter; Firebaugh, Stephanie – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2014
Recently, there has been a push within engineering curricula to adopt more learner-centered pedagogies, such as case-based instruction. Case-based instruction has been hypothesized to make the curriculum more relevant and motivating for students by pushing them to integrate the concepts they have learned with other experiences. The current study…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Conventional Instruction, Comparative Analysis
Neumann, Knut; Viering, Tobias; Boone, William J.; Fischer, Hans E. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2013
This article presents an empirical study on an initial learning progression of energy, a concept of central importance to the understanding of science. Learning progressions have been suggested as one vehicle to support the systematic and successful teaching of core science concepts. Ideally, a learning progression will provide teachers with a…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Energy, Learning Processes, Science Curriculum