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Direct linkBriley L. Lewis; Abygail R. Waggoner; Emma Clarke; Alison L. Crisp; Mark Dodici; Graham M. Doskoch; Michael M. Foley; Ryan Golant; Skylar Grayson; Sahil Hegde; Nathalie Korhonen Cuestas; Charles J. Law; R. R. Lefever; Ishan Mishra; Mark Popinchalk; Sabina Sagynbayeva; Samantha L. Wong; Wei Yan; Kaitlyn L. Ingraham Dixie; K. Supriya – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
Undergraduate physics and astronomy students are expected to engage with scientific literature as they begin their research careers, yet reading comprehension skills are rarely explicitly taught in major courses. We seek to determine the efficacy of a reading assignment designed to improve undergraduate astronomy (or related) majors' perceived…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Science, Science Process Skills, Astronomy
Download full textKörhasan, Nilüfer Didis – Science Education International, 2021
Peer instruction (PI) involves interaction between students and provides opportunities for students to reveal their own ideas, articulate their thinking, and facilitate construction of their knowledge with social interaction. Since the classroom environment of PI provides a rich information for students to discuss scientific phenomena, this…
Descriptors: Correlation, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Schemata (Cognition)
Dowd, Jason E.; Araujo, Ives; Mazur, Eric – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2015
Although confusion is generally perceived to be negative, educators dating as far back as Socrates, who asked students to question assumptions and wrestle with ideas, have challenged this notion. Can confusion be productive? How should instructors interpret student expressions of confusion? During two semesters of introductory physics that…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Introductory Courses, Physics, Teaching Methods
Sadaghiani, Homeyra R. – Physics Teacher, 2012
To engage students in a more meaningful discussion of course material and prompt their higher thinking skills, most instructors expect students to read the course textbook for initial exposure to the course content before class. However, as many instructors are aware, most students do not read their textbook throughout the quarter. At California…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, College Science, Web Based Instruction
Marušic, Mirko; Sliško, Josip – European Journal of Physics Education, 2014
This study is based on two exploratory questions with the aim of determining the relative effectiveness of two different student activities, called "Reading, Presenting and Questioning" (RPQ) and "Experimenting and Discussing" (ED), in changing students' perceptions and attitudes about the impact of physics learning on the…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Learning Activities
Sandifer, Cody – Science and Children, 2011
Pairing an inquiry lesson with a traditional reading activity creates a jarring philosophical mismatch between the interaction, deep thinking, and scientific reasoning that drives meaningful inquiry instruction and the "scan the text, copy the answers" response often obtained from elementary nonfiction readers. Realizing that there must be a…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Interdisciplinary Approach, Grade 5, Inquiry
Henderson, Charles; Rosenthal, Alvin – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2006
College science teachers know that students get the most out of class if they have completed the assigned reading. To reinforce this expectation, we ask our introductory physics students to submit a question they had about the reading. In this paper we describe the rationale and logistics of this assignment. (Contains 2 tables and 2 figures.)
Descriptors: College Science, Physics, Reading Assignments, Introductory Courses
