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Marcus Kubsch – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
Energy is a central concept across the sciences and an important goal of science education is to support all students so that they develop a full understanding of the energy concept. However, given the abstract and complex nature of the energy concept, only a few students develop an understanding so that they can use energy ideas to make sense of…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Bülbül, M. Sahin – European Journal of Physics Education, 2013
This study describes an approach for blind students thought health physics about how they could set a hypothesis and test it. The participant of the study used some health materials designed for high school blind student and tested her hypothesis with the data she gathered with those materials. It was asked that she should hypothesize which could…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Blindness, Hypothesis Testing
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Schaal, Steffen; Bogner, Franz X.; Girwidz, Raimund – Research in Science Education, 2010
Acquisition of conceptual knowledge is a central aim in science education. In this study we monitored an interdisciplinary hypermedia assisted learning unit on hibernation and thermodynamics based on cooperative learning. We used concept mapping for the assessment, applying a pre-test/post-test design. In our study, 106 9th graders cooperated by…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Thermodynamics, Cooperative Learning, Hypermedia
ACT, Inc., 2006
ACT data suggest that the readiness of the nation's high school students for college-level reading is far too low. But ACT data also show that, while it is important for students to be able to comprehend both explicit and implicit material in texts, as well as to understand how various textual elements (such as main ideas, relationships, or…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, High School Students, Reading Instruction, Grade 8