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The Effects of Writing-to-Learn Activities on Elementary Students' Conceptual Understanding: Learning about Force and Motion through Writing to Older Peers
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Chen, Ying-Chih; Hand, Brian; McDowell, Leah – Science Education, 2013
This quasi-experimental and pre/posttest study was designed to examine whether fourth-grade students who engaged in collaboratively writing letters to 11th-grade students performed better on tests of conceptual understanding of a unit on force and motion than students who did not. The participants included 835 fourth-grade students and 416…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Pretests Posttests, Grade 4, Grade 11
The Investigation of the Effectiveness of the Criteria for the Construction of a Physics Text for Students with Dyslexia: The Case of the Electric Current
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Papalexopoulos, Panagiotis F.; Vavougios, Dionisios; Vlachos, Filippos; Karapetsas, Argiris B. – Themes in Science and Technology Education, 2008
In this paper we studied the effectiveness of the writing criteria that are proposed to be applied during the construction of physics texts so that students with dyslexia do not confront reading difficulties with them. The effectiveness of the criteria has been assessed by the accomplishment of an investigation among students with and without…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Dyslexia, Teaching Methods