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Yu-Jun Liao; Wernhuar Tarng; Tzu-Ling Wang – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of employing an augmented reality (AR) lens imaging system on inquiry-based learning concerning junior high school students' science achievement, science learning motivation, and inquiry skills. For this purpose, an AR lens imaging learning system was developed specifically for the lens imaging…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Junior High School Students, Junior High School Teachers, Computer Simulation
Chuang Chen; Siti Nazleen Abdul Rabu; Nurullizam Jamiat – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2025
Integrating virtual laboratories (VLs) with science education promotes inquiry-based learning by providing an interactive, dynamic environment in which students actively engage with scientific concepts. While previous research highlights the effectiveness of VLs as tools in the IBL process, few studies have embedded the entire inquiry process…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Education, Science Achievement, Flipped Classroom
Amber Van Hoe; Joel Wiebe; Tijs Rotsaert; Tammy Schellens – International Journal of STEM Education, 2024
Computer-supported collaborative inquiry learning (CSCiL) has been proposed as a successful learning method to foster scientific literacy. This research aims to bridge the knowledge gap surrounding the role of peers as scaffolding sources in CSCiL environments. The primary objective is to explicitly implement peer assessment as a scaffolding tool…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Active Learning, Inquiry
Nasser Mansour; Ceren Aras; Judith Kleine Staarman; Sarah Bader Mohsen Alotaibi – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
Augmented Reality (AR) revolutionizes educational approaches by providing an immersive experience that superimposes virtual 3D elements onto the physical environment. This integration of virtual and real worlds addresses the challenge of understanding abstract concepts by enabling three-dimensional visualization and interaction. This study aims to…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Science, Computer Simulation, Science Instruction
Design and Usability Evaluation of a Mobile App for Elementary School Inquiry-Based Science Learning
Iraya Yánez-Pérez; Radu Bogdan Toma; Jesús Ángel Meneses-Villagrá – School Science and Mathematics, 2025
Teachers often struggle to implement inquiry-based science teaching. To support them, IndagApp--a 3D educational app that offers curriculum-aligned, inquiry-based lesson plans--was designed. The app is rooted in the inquiry phases recommended in best-practices literature, which arguably align with most international standards. This study describes…
Descriptors: Usability, Computer Software, Private Schools, Public Schools
Poitras, Eric; Butcher, Kirsten R.; Orr, Matthew; Hudson, Michelle A.; Larson, Madlyn – Interactive Learning Environments, 2022
This study mined student interactions with visual representations as a means to automate assessment of learning in a complex, inquiry-based learning environment. Log trace data of 143 middle school students' interactions with an interactive map in Research Quest (an inquiry-based, online learning environment) were analyzed. Students used the…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Electronic Learning, Maps, Science Instruction
Zhang, Jianwei; Yuan, Guangji; Bogouslavsky, Maria – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2020
This study explores boundary-crossing interaction between two grade 5/6 science classrooms that operated as knowledge building communities. The two classrooms studied human body systems with the support of the Knowledge Forum over a ten-week period. The knowledge building practice integrated student-driven inquiry and discourse within each…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Science, Grade 5, Grade 6
Ramirez, Hazel Joyce M.; Monterola, Sheryl Lyn C. – Interactive Learning Environments, 2022
Computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) is a technology-driven inquiry-based approach that encourages social interaction and shared knowledge construction in completing computer-aided tasks. Although there were researches carried out on CSCL, no research to date has extensively examined how CSCL enhanced with scripts containing…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Logical Thinking, Cooperative Learning, Computer Assisted Instruction
Kaya, Hasan; Saylan Kirmizigul, Asli – Online Submission, 2019
The present study was conducted to explore the effect of the use of computer-aided and inquiry-based teaching approaches on 7th grade students' anxiety towards science. The research was carried out in the spring semester of 2016-2017 academic year with the participation of 69 students from two classes of a middle school in Kayseri, Turkey. The…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Active Learning, Inquiry, Instructional Effectiveness
Fund, Zvia; Madjar, Nir – International Journal of Science Education, 2018
The current study focused on scaffolding programmes, including cognitive and meta-cognitive components, for science problem solving in a computerised learning environment to identify their unique effects on aspects of student motivation. Using expectancy-value theory as a conceptual framework, the current study focused on two motivational aspects:…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Problem Solving, Student Motivation, Grade 7
Kuisma, Merja; Nokelainen, Petri – Frontline Learning Research, 2018
Adolescents need skills to acquire information and compare, analyze, transform, and experiment with knowledge. However, little research has been conducted on the content and pedagogical practices that are necessary to achieve these skills. This article seeks to contribute to this discussion because geography enables the attainment of the so-called…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Outcomes of Education, Educational Benefits, Teaching Methods
Vitale, Jonathan M.; McBride, Elizabeth; Linn, Marcia C. – International Journal of Science Education, 2016
We compared two forms of automated guidance to support students' understanding of climate change in an online inquiry science unit. For "specific" guidance, we directly communicated ideas that were missing or misrepresented in student responses. For "knowledge integration" guidance, we provided hints or suggestions to motivate…
Descriptors: Climate, Change, Comparative Analysis, Science Instruction
Chen, C.-H.; Chou, M.-H. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2015
Facing students' decreasing motivation to pursue scientific study, schools and educators need to coordinate new technologies with pedagogical agents to effectively sustain or promote students' scientific learning and motivation to learn. Although the provision of pedagogical agents in student learning has been studied previously, it is not clear…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Learning, Student Motivation, Science Instruction
Sun, Daner; Looi, Chee-Kit; Xie, Wenting – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2017
When inquiry-based learning is designed for a collaborative context, the interactions that arise in the learning environment can become fairly complex. While the learning effectiveness of such learning environments has been reported in the literature, there have been fewer studies on the students' learning processes. To address this, the article…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Inquiry, Secondary School Students, Concept Formation
Gobert, Janice D.; Kim, Yoon Jeon; Sao Pedro, Michael; Kennedy, Michael; Betts, Cameron – Grantee Submission, 2015
Many national policy documents underscore the importance of 21st century skills, including critical thinking. In parallel, recent American frameworks for K-12 Science education call for the development of critical thinking skills in science, also referred to as science inquiry skills/practices. Assessment of these skills is necessary, as indicated…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Science Education, Teaching Methods, 21st Century Skills