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Jianqiang Ye; Yubin Zheng; Min Zhan; Yiling Zhou; Long Li; Dimei Chen – Research in Science Education, 2025
Organic chemistry is challenging for novices as it involves a large quantity of organic reactions. Effective learning requires not only profound theoretical knowledge but also the ability to reason about causal mechanisms. This study investigated pre-service chemistry teachers' mechanistic reasoning and the implicit cognitive process. Participants…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Science Instruction, Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers
Tufan Inaltekin; Tolga Saka – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2025
In science, one of the most crucial representations for constructing meaning about physical events is graphs. The first graph students encounter in science class is the constant velocity motion graph. Therefore, examining students' understanding of structuring and interpreting these graphs for the relationship between distance, time, and velocity…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Graphs, Motion, Scientific Concepts
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
Abdou L. J. Jammeh; Claude Karegeya; Savita Ladage – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
Clicker-integrated instruction is the current innovation in teaching and learning. Several studies used this technology to investigate learning processes, while others mainly used it to asses for learning, facilitation of group discussion and students' participation. All applications require creativity and analytical thinking and very much…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Audience Response Systems, Computer Assisted Instruction
Hugo Vieira; Carla Morais – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2025
Educators cannot overlook the affect's potential for students' educational success. In this study, affective analogies are proposed as a didactic resource to foster students' affect for chemistry learning and positive attitudes towards the physics-chemistry subject. To examine the influence of the affective analogies on it, we grouped contents of…
Descriptors: Science Education, Chemistry, Scientific Attitudes, Psychological Patterns
A. C. Cooper; J. B. Osness; S. D. Hester; M. S. Bolger – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2024
Undergraduate laboratory courses can provide opportunities for students to participate in science practices. This requires rethinking both curricula and instruction. Science practice--based courses require students to be positioned as epistemic agents, implying a shift in instructor role. Teaching assistants (TAs) are the primary instructors for…
Descriptors: Teaching Assistants, Science Laboratories, Science Instruction, Science Process Skills
Gur Arie Livni Alcasid; Michal Haskel-Ittah – Research in Science Education, 2025
Mechanistic explanations, aiming to disclose details of entities and their activities, employ the act of unpacking which, inherently and paradoxically, produces explanatory gaps--pieces of undisclosed, undetailed mechanistic information. These gaps, termed explanatory black boxes, are often perceived as counterproductive to the teaching of…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Teachers, Biology, Teacher Attitudes
Ebba Koerfer; Bor Gregorcic – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Statistical mechanics has received limited attention in physics education research and remains a relatively underrepresented topic even in research on upper-division physics courses. The purpose of this study was to explore potential challenges that physics students encounter when they solve statistical mechanics problems in groups. Adopting a…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Mechanics (Physics), Barriers
Tugba Yuksel; Lynn A. Bryan; Alejandra J. Magana – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
Quantum physics forms the basis for exciting new technologies, including quantum computers, quantum encryption, and quantum entanglement. The advancement of science and technology highlights the importance of mastering quantum physics and its applications, not only at the college level but also as early as high school. In this multiple case study,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Models, Quantum Mechanics, Science Instruction
Zac Patterson; Lin Ding – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
Conceptual approaches to contemporary physics topics pose many learning challenges. One factor influencing knowledge integration is a student's epistemic framing. Epistemic frames provide a context within which a particular situation is perceived, interpreted, and judged. The objective of this study is to explore secondary students' framings…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Physics, Science Instruction, Quantum Mechanics
David R. Hodge – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2025
Science plays an important, if not central role, in the profession's mission of enhancing human well-being. The benefits that flow from science do not emerge in a vacuum, but rather are contingent upon the existence of a specific value-based milieu. Included among these values are an academic discourse that: 1) supports the free expression of…
Descriptors: Social Work, Research, Well Being, Professional Education
Constantine Kapetanakis; Samantha Conflitti; Sarah Abdo; L. Kate Wright; Dina L. Newman – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2024
Analogies are used to make abstract topics meaningful and more easily comprehensible to learners. Incorporating simple analogies into STEM classrooms is a fairly common practice, but the analogies are typically generated and explained by the instructor for the learners. We hypothesize that challenging learners to create complex, extended analogies…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Logical Thinking, Skill Development, Thinking Skills
Alistair Gilbert McInerny – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Understanding human behavior and reasoning is essential for developing successful instruction. Discipline-based education researchers have examined how students learn, informing the development of successful instructional strategies. Researchers have also identified barriers to the successful implementation of such strategies. This work utilizes…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Logical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Physics
Agung W. Subiantoro; David Treagust; Kok-Sing Tang – Journal of Biological Education, 2024
This research aimed to understand the features of the informal reasoning skills performed by students who debated the socio-scientific contentious issue of breastfeeding versus milk formula during an Indonesian biology lesson. A class of 30 students in grade 11 discussed this issue by participating in a role play represented by four organisations…
Descriptors: Science and Society, Nutrition, Infants, Biology
Beth A. Lindsey; Andrew Boudreaux; Drew J. Rosen; MacKenzie R. Stetzer; Mila Kryjevskaia – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
In this study, we have explored the effectiveness of two instructional approaches in the context of the motion of objects falling at terminal speed in the presence of air resistance. We ground these instructional approaches in dual-process theories of reasoning, which assert that human cognition relies on two thinking processes. Dual-process…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Motion
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