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Mads Paludan Goddiksen – Science & Education, 2025
Developing an adequate understanding of the nature of science includes developing an understanding of the uses and importance of models in science. General accounts of science aimed at university students, however, tend to neglect this aspect. A noticeable exception is the simple model of the key elements of a scientific result presented by Giere,…
Descriptors: College Students, Models, Comprehension, Scientific Principles
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Valeria Edelsztein; Claudio Cormick – Science & Education, 2025
In this article, we tackle the phenomenon of what seems to be a misunderstanding between science education theory and philosophy of science--one which does not seem to have received any attention in the literature. While there seems to be a consensus within the realm of science education on limiting or altogether denying the explanatory role of…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Scientific Concepts, Science Education, Epistemology
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Phil Seok Oh; Heesoo Ha – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2025
Current science education reform efforts have identified sensemaking as an important goal of science education, and science education researchers have studied what constitutes the sensemaking process in the science classroom. Because the studies of sensemaking are loosely linked to those of scientific reasoning, however, they have provided little…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Science Education, Scientific Concepts, Scientific Literacy
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Wenyuan Yang; Sihang Chen; Cheng Liu – American Biology Teacher, 2024
Modeling is a core practice in science and is a meaningful way to learn the subject. This article introduces a modeling-based approach that highlights the idea that modeling is an iterative process and integrates the fundamental parts of scientists' work and key suggestions for teaching through modeling. The lesson "The Structure and Function…
Descriptors: Models, Middle School Students, Biology, Science Instruction
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Ying-Chih Chen; Michelle Jordan; Jongchan Park; Emily Starrett – Science Education, 2024
An essential aspect of scientific practice involves grappling with the generation of predictions, representations, interpretations, investigations, and communications related to scientific phenomena, all of which are inherently permeated with uncertainty. Transferring this practice from expert settings to the classroom is invaluable yet…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Science Process Skills, Ambiguity (Context)
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Lindsay Ruhter; Thai Williams; Meagan Karvonen; Sarah Koebley; Shawnee Wakeman; David Pugalee – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2025
Many teachers have a level of discomfort with planning inquiry-based science lessons for students with complex needs. Science instruction typically includes teaching discrete skills with a focus on vocabulary acquisition (Knight et al., 2020). Because science is universal and thus important for all learners, many states have adopted the Next…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Instruction, Lesson Plans, Special Needs Students
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Melikhan Tanyeri – Biomedical Engineering Education, 2025
Purpose: This paper describes a senior-level biomedical engineering course designed to educate students on primary literature analysis and effective scientific communication. The course integrates elements from both disciplines through in-class discussions of primary research articles and an innovative annotation project utilizing the Science in…
Descriptors: Documentation, Biomedicine, Engineering Education, Science Process Skills
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Cari Din; Martin MacInnis – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2024
Cookbook-style laboratories (labs), where students follow recipes and confirm known results are common, yet years of science teaching and learning research indicate they do not help college students develop the habits of mind and skills of a scientist. We describe the rationale, challenges, and initial changes made in our teaching and learning lab…
Descriptors: College Students, College Faculty, Science Laboratories, Active Learning
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Marie-Jetta den Otter; Alma Kuijpers; Michiel Dam; Ludo Juurlink; Fred Janssen – Research in Science Education, 2024
Chemical reasoning, and in particular structure--property reasoning, is an important goal of chemistry education. Johnstone's triangle (1982, 1991) is often used to explicate this type of reasoning. This triangle describes the multilevel thought chemical reasoning requires and shows why students find chemistry so difficult. However, this model…
Descriptors: Scientific Literacy, Thinking Skills, Scientists, Chemistry
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Douglas Allchin – American Biology Teacher, 2024
"American Biology Teacher" has published over seven dozen articles relevant to the history of biology in biology teaching. They are cataloged here and indexed by topic. As reflected in this archive, teachers adopt a historical approach for many pragmatic motivations: (1) to engage students, by contextualizing science culturally; (2) to…
Descriptors: Biology, Science History, Science Instruction, Science Teachers
Mahmoud M. S. Abdallah – Online Submission, 2025
This guide offers a comprehensive handbook to scientific research methodology and experimental design, specifically for novice MA and PhD researchers in Education and Language Learning (TESOL/TEFL). It establishes scientific research as a systematic, objective inquiry focused on identifying cause-and-effect relationships through empirical data.…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Research Methodology, Research Design, Second Language Learning
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Dionne Cross Francis; Serife Sevinc; Ayfer Eker Karakaya; Verily Tan – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2024
Providing students with opportunities to build, and test and revise ideas, can help them develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills. In this article, the authors describe how core measurement and geometry concepts were embedded within a "Model It!" task. They replicate an industry-based, interdisciplinary problem, but only…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, Geometric Concepts, Problem Solving, Creative Thinking
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Adrian Harrison; Gareth Evans; Gonzalo Blanco – Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 2024
Within the eukaryotic cell, the actin cytoskeleton is a crucial structural framework that maintains cellular form, regulates cell movement and division, and facilitates the internal transportation of proteins and organelles. External cues induce alterations in the actin cytoskeleton primarily through the activation of Rho GTPases, which then bind…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Science Process Skills, Skill Development
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Thomas D. Montgomery; Bridget M. Green; Cliff G. Oliech; Jeffrey D. Evanseck – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2024
Colleges are becoming increasingly diverse, including strengthening representation of students with disabilities in STEM (Science, Teaching, Engineering, and Math) fields; however, representation still lags behind national trends. To adapt to this changing demographic and improve representation, STEM college professors must be prepared to grant…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Students with Disabilities, College Faculty, Equal Education
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David C. Owens – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2025
Elementary students learn best when they make observations about perplexing natural phenomena, ask questions about what they observed, and pursue answers to their own questions through engagement in science practice. However, facilitating such learning experiences can be challenging for novice instructors. In this unit, pre-service elementary…
Descriptors: Science Education, Lunar Research, Astronomy, Elementary School Students
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