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Bennion, Adam; Davis, Elizabeth A. – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2023
Preservice elementary teachers need to be able to engage young students in science practices but may not have extensive experiences with those practices. They also may have contrasting beliefs about them, which inform their teaching practice. To understand preservice teachers' beliefs related to science practices, we focus on the connections they…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Student Attitudes, Teacher Education Programs
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Mirac Furkan Bayar; Yasemin Tas – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2024
This study examined the effect of design-based science instruction (DBSI) on sixth grade students' science achievement, as well as their development in relation to science process skills. 213 sixth grade students from three public schools participated in the study. A pilot was conducted in the unit of Systems of the Human Body and the main study…
Descriptors: Science Achievement, Grade 6, Public Schools, Design
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Costa, Sandro Lucas Reis; Broietti, Fabiele Cristiane Dias – Science Education International, 2021
Scientific Practices play a central role in the Next Generation Science Standards, influencing the standards of more than 70% of students in the United States. Therefore, a view of what has been studied about Scientific Practices in Science Education, globally in the past decade is relevant. Thus, 44 articles from international journals in Science…
Descriptors: Science Education, Standards, Journal Articles, Authors
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Yolradee Supornpanitkul; Apantee Poonputta; Orrasa Prasitnok – Journal of Education in Science, Environment and Health, 2025
The objectives of this research are: (1) to develop a flipped classroom learning plan using inquiry-based learning on the topic of substance separation for Grade 8 students, to achieve effectiveness according to the 75/75 criteria; (2) to compare science process skills and learning achievement before and after implementing the developed learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Science Process Skills, Skill Development
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Soon C. Lee; Anna Maria Arias – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2024
This study contributes to the growing body of research on the role of crosscutting concepts (CCCs) in three-dimensional teaching and learning by examining the complexity of elementary preservice teachers' (PSTs) knowledge for teaching related to CCCs. The researchers used qualitative methods to analyze PSTs' responses to a questionnaire about CCCs…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Science Instruction
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Hsiao, Hsien-Sheng; Lin, Yi-Wei; Lin, Kuen-Yi; Lin, Chien-Yu; Chen, Jheng-Han; Chen, Jyun-Chen – Interactive Learning Environments, 2022
This study used robot-based practices to develop an activity that incorporated the 6E model. The sixth-grade students learned interdisciplinary knowledge about how to use Arduino electronic components, microcontrollers, and hands-on tools to make a "Crab Robot." In addition, the students learned how to use Scratch programming language to…
Descriptors: Robotics, Grade 6, Interdisciplinary Approach, Programming
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Emma Stevenson; Merryn Dawborn-Gundlach; Jan van Driel – Teaching Science, 2024
Being scientifically literate is an essential twenty-first century skill for every individual navigating today's complex world and science inquiry skills are seen as an important capability of a scientific literate person. However, teaching science inquiry skills requires specific competences and is often challenging for teachers. Understanding…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Inquiry, Secondary School Teachers, Grade 7
Kirk Anthony Heath – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this mixed-method action research study was to improve Black students' performance in my sixth-grade science class by improving their ability to use the claim, evidence, and reasoning (CER) framework. Using criterion-based convenient sampling, I enlisted 17 Black participants, all of whom were underperforming in my science class at…
Descriptors: African American Students, Middle School Students, Grade 6, Science Education
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Kurniahtunnisa; Brian Ricard Wola; Fransiska Harahap; Widya Anjelia Tumewu; Zusje Wiesje Merry Warouw – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2024
Science process skills (SPS) are considered essential for scientific and technological eras nowadays. This study aims to provide information on how SPS in Indonesia have been researched from 2016 to 2022, including the number of studies conducted, research designs used, frequently addressed science topics, interventions, assessment instruments…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Process Skills, Educational Research, Science Education
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Nielsen, Wendy; Turney, Annette; Georgiou, Helen; Jones, Pauline – Research in Science Education, 2022
The construction of dynamic multimedia products requires the selection and integration of a range of semiotic resources. As an assessment task for preservice teachers, this construction process is complex but has significant potential for learning. To investigate how weaving together multiple representations in such tasks enables learners to…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Semiotics, Multimedia Materials, Elementary School Teachers
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Bayar, Mirac Furkan; Tas, Yasemin – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2022
This study aimed to investigate the effects of robotic coding supported Design-Based Science Instruction (RC-DBSI) on sixth-grade students' science process skills. One-group pretest-posttest experimental design was employed in the study. Participants consisted of thirty-nine sixth-grade students enrolled in a public middle school located in the…
Descriptors: Robotics, Programming, Design, Science Instruction
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Melinda Kirk; Russell Tytler; Peta J. White; Joseph Paul Ferguson; Jo Raphael – Research in Science Education, 2025
With the critical nature of socio-ecological challenges, the need to empower young people to generatively grapple with these science-related issues is crucial for developing their agentic citizenship. This paper reports on a primary science project that adopted a Socratic Seminar pedagogical strategy to enable student voice and collaborative…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Science Education, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Barbara Szymanska-Markowska – European Journal of Physics Education, 2023
The paper presents an assessment of the impact of teaching physics using the Inquiry Based Science Education (IBSE) method on the level of competence and knowledge of primary school students in Poland (second educational stage). The method is based on the teacher-inspired teamwork of students to solve experimental physical problems. This results…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Inquiry, Teaching Methods, Physics
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Mirjam Ndaimehafo Asilevi; Sirpa Kärkkäinen; Kari Sormunen; Sari Havu-Nuutinen – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2024
This paper describes and compares primary school students' perceptions of science learning skills in a teacher-centered approach (TCA) and in inquiry-based science fieldwork (IBSF). This comparison was prompted by primary school students' perceptions of science learning skills, which has recently gained momentum, and the Namibian primary schools'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Elementary School Students, Science Process Skills
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Safrizal, Safrizal; Sudarmono; Yulia, Resti – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2022
This research aimed to describe the development of scientific literacy of students in Indonesia at the Adiwiyata school. The design of this research was qualitative. The data were gathered through observation, an interview and documentation. The subjects were selected through snowball sampling. Data analysis was carried out by referring to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scientific Literacy, Science Education, Teaching Methods
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