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The Living Dead: Transformative Experiences in Modelling Natural Selection
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Petersen, Morten Rask – Journal of Biological Education, 2017
This study considers how students change their coherent conceptual understanding of natural selection through a hands-on simulation. The results show that most students change their understanding. In addition, some students also underwent a transformative experience and used their new knowledge in a leisure time activity. These transformative…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Hands on Science, Simulation, Biological Sciences
Patterns, Probabilities, and People: Making Sense of Quantitative Change in Complex Systems
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Wilkerson-Jerde, Michelle Hoda; Wilensky, Uri J. – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2015
The learning sciences community has made significant progress in understanding how people think and learn about complex systems. But less is known about how people make sense of the quantitative patterns and mathematical formalisms often used to study these systems. In this article, we make a case for attending to and supporting connections…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Behavior, Interviews, High School Students
Teaching Problem-Solving Competency in Business Studies at Secondary School Level
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Meintjes, Aloe; Henrico, Alfred; Kroon, Japie – South African Journal of Education, 2015
The high unemployment rate in South Africa compels potential entrepreneurs to start their own businesses in order to survive. Often this is with little or no formal training or education in entrepreneurship. Since problem recognition and problem-solving are amongst the most crucial competencies required for a successful entrepreneurial career,…
Descriptors: Secondary School Curriculum, Business Education, Problem Solving, Competency Based Education
A Comparison of Students' Approaches to Inquiry, Conceptual Learning, and Attitudes in Simulation-Based and Microcomputer-Based Laboratories
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Chen, Sufen; Chang, Wen-Hua; Lai, Chih-Hung; Tsai, Cheng-Yue – Science Education, 2014
The purpose of this project was to investigate the effects of virtual versus physical manipulation using a simulation-based laboratory activity (SBL) and a microcomputer-based laboratory activity (MBL). Both the SBL and the MBL used computers to collect, graph, and analyze data. A major difference was that the MBL allowed the students to…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Laboratories, Computer Uses in Education, Simulation
Teachers' Beliefs and Their Intention to Use Interactive Simulations in Their Classrooms
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Kriek, Jeanne; Stols, Gerrit – South African Journal of Education, 2010
In this pilot study, we sought to examine the influence of the beliefs of Grade 10 to 12 physical science teachers on their intended and actual usage of interactive simulations (Physics Education Technology, or PhET) in their classrooms. A combination of the Theory of Planned Behaviour, the Technology Acceptance Model and the Innovation Diffusion…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Secondary School Teachers, Science Teachers, Simulation
The Effect of Different Molecular Models on High School Students' Conceptions of Molecular Genetics
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Rotbain, Yosi; Stavy, Ruth; Marbach-Ad, Gili – Science Education Review, 2008
Our main goal in this study was to explore whether the use of models in high school molecular genetics instruction can contribute to students' understanding of concepts and processes in genetics. Three hundred and nineteen students from four comparable groups of 11th- and 12th-grade students participated. The control group (116 students) was…
Descriptors: Molecular Structure, Models, High School Students, Genetics