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Tofel-Grehl, Colby; Searle, Kristin; Ball, Douglas; Jeong, Soojeong – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2023
As computing becomes an essential component of professional practice across science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, integration of computing across content areas in K-12 classrooms is also becoming important. Particularly within science classrooms, computer science and computational thinking (CS/CT) are novel and necessary…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Elementary Secondary Education, Computation
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Hamerski, Paul C.; McPadden, Daryl; Caballero, Marcos D.; Irving, Paul W. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
High school science classrooms across the United States are answering calls to make computation a part of science learning. The problem is that there is little known about the barriers to learning that computation might bring to a science classroom or about how to help students overcome these challenges. This case study explores these challenges…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Secondary School Science, Science Instruction
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Apple, Lillian; Baunach, John; Connelly, Glenda; Gahlhoff, Sonia; Romanowicz, Colleen Megowan; Vieyra, Rebecca Elizabeth; Walker, Lucas – Physics Teacher, 2021
Multiple initiatives contend that all students should master computational thinking, including the "Next Generation Science Standards, the K-12 Framework for Computational Thinking," and Code.org. In turn, many physics teachers have begun to explore a variety of approaches to integrating computational modeling through programming. These…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, High Schools, Secondary School Science, Physics
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Wagh, Aditi; Cook-Whitt, Kate; Wilensky, Uri – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2017
Research on the design of learning environments for K-12 science education has been informed by two bodies of literature: inquiry-based science and Constructionism. Inquiry-based science has emphasized engagement in activities that reflect authentic scientific practices. Constructionism has focused on designing intuitively accessible authoring…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Teaching Methods, Programming, Coding
Kimori, David Abiya – ProQuest LLC, 2017
As we approach the second quarter of the twenty-first century, one may predict that the environment will be among the dominant themes in the political and educational discourse. Over the past three decades, particular perspectives regarding the environment have begun to emerge: (i) realization by human beings that we not only live on earth and use…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Environmental Education, Conservation (Environment)
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O'Dwyer, Anne; Childs, Peter E. – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2017
Much research has identified organic chemistry as an area of difficulty for learners. There is also much literature pertaining to the factors that contribute to learners' difficulties. This paper explores the intersections of teachers' and learners' perceptions of teaching and learning organic chemistry respectively. Understanding these nuances…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Organic Chemistry, Science Instruction, High Schools
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Strati, Anna D.; Schmidt, Jennifer A.; Maier, Kimberly S. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2017
This study explored associations between students' perceptions of challenge, teacher-provided support and obstruction, and students' momentary academic engagement in high school science classrooms. Instrumental and emotional dimensions of support and obstruction were examined separately, and analyses tested whether the relationship between…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Barriers, Teacher Role, Learner Engagement
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Snapir, Zohar; Eberbach, Catherine; Ben-Zvi-Assaraf, Orit; Hmelo-Silver, Cindy; Tripto, Jaklin – International Journal of Science Education, 2017
Science education today has become increasingly focused on research into complex natural, social and technological systems. In this study, we examined the development of high-school biology students' systems understanding of the human body, in a three-year longitudinal study. The development of the students' system understanding was evaluated…
Descriptors: High School Students, Secondary School Science, Science Education, Biology
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da Silva, Paloma Rodrigues; de Andrade, Mariana A. Bologna Soares; de Andrade Caldeira, Ana Maria – Journal of Biological Education, 2015
Biology is a science that involves study of the diversity of living organisms. This diversity has always generated questions and has motivated cultures to seek plausible explanations for the differences and similarities between types of organisms. In biology teaching, these issues are addressed by adopting an evolutionary approach. The aim of this…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Beliefs, High Schools
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Hsieh, Wen-Min; Tsai, Chin-Chung – International Journal of Science Education, 2017
This cross-sectional study explored students' conceptions of science learning via drawing analysis. A total of 906 Taiwanese students in 4th, 6th, 8th, 10th, and 12th grade were asked to use drawing to illustrate how they conceptualise science learning. Students' drawings were analysed using a coding checklist to determine the presence or absence…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Case Studies, Positive Attitudes
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Harshman, Jordan; Yezierski, Ellen – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2015
Data-driven inquiry (DDI) is the process by which teachers design and implement classroom assessments and use student results to inform/adjust teaching. Although much has been written about DDI, few details exist about how teachers conduct this process on a day-to-day basis in any specific subject area, let alone chemistry. Nineteen high school…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Chemistry, Secondary School Science, High Schools
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Van Horne, Katie; Bell, Philip – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2017
Recent science educational policy reform efforts call for a shift toward practice-focused instruction in kindergarten-Grade 12 science education. We argue that this focus on engaging students in epistemic practices of science opens up new possibilities for the design of learning environments that support the stabilization of learners'…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Student Projects, High School Students, Secondary School Science
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Yerdelen-Damar, Sevda; Elby, Andrew – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2016
This study investigates how elite Turkish high school physics students claim to approach learning physics when they are simultaneously (i) engaged in a curriculum that led to significant gains in their epistemological sophistication and (ii) subject to a high-stakes college entrance exam. Students reported taking surface (rote) approaches to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Secondary School Science, Science Instruction
Miller, Nathaniel J. – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Abundant educational research has integrated Albert Bandura's concepts of self-efficacy and collective efficacy within educational settings. In this phenomenological case study, the investigation sought to capture the manifestation of self-efficacy and collective efficacy within inquiry-based science laboratory courses. Qualitative data was…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Phenomenology, Case Studies, Inquiry
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Jacobson, Michael J.; Kim, Beaumie; Pathak, Suneeta; Zhang, BaoHui – Interactive Learning Environments, 2015
This research explores issues related to the sequencing of structure that is provided as pedagogical guidance. A study was conducted that involved grade 10 students in Singapore as they learned concepts about electricity using four NetLogo Investigations of Electricity agent-based models. It was found that the low-to-high structure learning…
Descriptors: Grade 10, High School Students, Energy, Pretests Posttests
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