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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
Gülüzar Eymur; Pinar Seda Çetin – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2024
Promotion of students' scientific literacy has long been and continues to be a central goal for reform efforts in science education. Although there is a great number of research conducted to evaluate student's scientific literacy, less is known about how we can improve students' scientific literacy through variety of scientific practices. In this…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Inquiry, Scientific Literacy, Laboratory Experiments
Sabine Sypré; Bart Soenens; Maarten Vansteenkiste; Karine Verschueren – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2025
Higher-level questioning is an instructional method often recommended to challenge cognitively gifted students. However, professional development is needed to help teachers improve their ability to ask higher-level questions. Therefore, we developed an intervention based on Bloom's taxonomy, consisting of a 2-h session in which teachers learn how…
Descriptors: Gifted, Faculty Development, Learner Engagement, Student Motivation
Tang, Chungang; Song, Zidong – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2023
This paper is a lesson study of the instruction of China's Natural Resources (the third unit of eighth-grade geography), and its objective is to examine the efficacy of inquiry-based learning in geography education. In the experimental lesson, we reorganized the teaching content by integrating the learning materials from the four sections of…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Inquiry, Secondary School Students, Geography Instruction
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
Laura Nix – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of phenomena-based inquiry on students' engagement levels in my science classroom. This action research study took place in the fall of 2021 with six student participants. Participants were enrolled in an 8th grade honors science course in a middle school in South Carolina. The research was…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Middle School Students, Inquiry, Science Instruction
Ying-Chih Chen; Jongchan Park; Jamie G. Rapkiewcz – American Biology Teacher, 2024
Productive struggle is a process in which students expend effort to grapple with perplexing problems and make sense of something that is not immediately apparent and beyond their current level of understanding and capacity. The experience encourages students to reflect on and restructure their existing knowledge toward a new understanding of…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Biology, Science Education, Teaching Methods
Swidan, Osama; Cusi, Annalisa; Robutti, Ornella; Arzarello, Ferdinando – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2023
This paper introduces a model built upon the Method of Varying Inquiry, offering a didactical approach to problem posing and solving activities that stimulates inquiry-based learning in mathematics classrooms. The model combines the inquiry-based framework with the variation theory and with specific didactical and theoretical elements (the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Inquiry, Active Learning
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
Kutlu, Emine; Bakirci, Hasan; Kara, Yilmaz – Participatory Educational Research, 2022
Despite the adoption of modern educational approaches such as activity-based, laboratory-based, technology enhanced science education, it is known that in most cases, students have difficulties in achieving desired learning goals such as developing inquiry skills and engineering knowledge. The efforts of science educators to ensure that students…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Inquiry, Engineering Education, Knowledge Level
Krittaya Narathon; Jatuporn Khamsong; Wittaya Worapun – Higher Education Studies, 2024
This Study aim to investigate the effects of integrated inquiry-based and STEM education learning management on Thai grade 8 students' analytical thinking and learning achievement. The research employed a one-group experimental design with 37 grade 8 students from a public school in Khon Kaen Province, Thailand, selected through purposive…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Motion, Scientific Concepts, Physics
I Made Suarsana; Al Jupri; Didi Suryadi; Elah Nurlaelah; I Gusti Nyoman Yudi Hartawan – Mathematics Teaching Research Journal, 2025
Mathematical and computational thinking (CT) are closely interrelated, yet CT integration into mathematics instruction remains limited. This study aims to analyze the effectiveness of the teaching process for straight-line equations in enhancing students' CT skills and to propose improvements based on the findings. A qualitative case study…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Instructional Design
Naruemon Sitthikrai; Chulida Hemtasin; Tawan Thongsuk – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2023
The objectives of this action research were: (1) To develop learning achievement in basic science subjects of grade 8 students who received an inquiry-based learning (IBL) management system combined with an educational game on the topic of solutions to pass the requirement of 70%; and (2) To study the satisfaction of grade 8 students toward the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Active Learning, Inquiry, Educational Games
Christian Smoke – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Project-based learning (PjBL) instruction is an inquiry-based method that is beneficial to student achievement and their exploration of 21st-century learning skills, but there is a gap in the literature about how Grades 6 to 8 teachers feel about PjBL and its implementation. The research problem was science teachers in the United States were not…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
Anna Amato Shao – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Background: Data storytelling is an interdisciplinary practice that uses visual and narrative elements to engage an audience with data. Students need more opportunities across school curriculum to consider the connections between data and social and environmental contexts. Few studies have investigated how to support teachers in co-designing for…
Descriptors: Data, Story Telling, Interdisciplinary Approach, Social Environment