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Daniel Adeboye; Desmond W. Govender; Irene Govender – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2024
Students naturally have a phobia for STEM subjects which leads to poor performance in these subjects. The reason for this is varied but can be associated with the teaching approach. As an improvement on the traditional teaching method and the earlier technology-enabled teaching methodologies, using the affordances of technology to effectively…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Intervention, Learning Activities, Elementary School Students
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Özkanbas, Müge; Kirik, Özgecan Tastan – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2020
Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL®) as a collaborative inquiry method has been widely used in teaching chemistry to high school and college students. This paper presents the impact of POGIL on 65 middle school students' understanding about nature of matter. It is a quasi-experimental non-equivalent control group design study in which…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Active Learning, Inquiry, Metacognition
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Zekri A. M. Zouhor; Ivana Z. Bogdanovic; Sonja J. Skuban; Milica V. Pavkov-Hrvojevic – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2017
Physics is generally regarded as difficult and uninteresting. The teaching of physics with the use of an appropriate teaching strategy can improve students' achievement. The aim of this research is to examine the effect of the modified Know-Want-Learn (mKWL) strategy on primary school students' achievement in physics. The Know-Want-Learn (KWL)…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Elementary School Students, Science Achievement
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Olsen, Benjamin D.; Rule, Audrey C. – Journal of STEM Arts, Crafts, and Constructions, 2016
Science inquiry has been found to be effective with students from diverse backgrounds and varied academic abilities. This study compared student learning, enjoyment, motivation, perceived understanding, and creativity during a science unit on Models and Designs for 38 sixth grade students (20 male, 18 female; 1 Black, 1 Hispanic and 36 White). The…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Student Centered Learning, Inquiry, Active Learning
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Tsai, Chia-Wen; Shen, Pei-Di; Lin, Rong-An – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2015
This study investigated, via quasi-experiments, the effects of student-centered project-based learning with initiation (SPBL with Initiation) on the development of students' computing skills. In this study, 96 elementary school students were selected from four class sections taking a course titled "Digital Storytelling" and were assigned…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Student Centered Learning, Computer Literacy