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C. F. J. Pols; P. J. J. M. Dekkers; M. J. de Vries – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
This small-scale, qualitative study uses educational design research to explore how focusing on argumentation may contribute to students' learning to engage in inquiry independently. Understanding inquiry as the construction of a scientifically cogent argument in support of a claim may encourage students to develop personal reasons for adhering to…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Science Instruction, Inquiry, Secondary School Students
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Karina C. White; Melanie Manion; Timothy M. Evans – American Biology Teacher, 2024
Access to authentic research is limited at the 7-12 science education level. At the same time, many local restoration projects would benefit from, but don't have access to a long-term system of monitoring. This project seeks to unite those two needs by developing a protocol for 7-12 classrooms to be able to participate in authentic research…
Descriptors: Student Research, Scientific Research, Junior High School Students, Foreign Countries
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Mihyun Son; Minsu Ha – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
Digital literacy is essential for scientific literacy in a digital world. Although the NGSS Practices include many activities that require digital literacy, most studies have examined digital literacy from a generic perspective rather than a curricular context. This study aimed to develop a self-report tool to measure elements of digital literacy…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Measures (Individuals), Digital Literacy, Scientific Literacy
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Ching, Cynthia Carter; Hagood, Danielle – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2019
This paper connects the technological practice of activity monitor gaming to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) science and engineering practice of "analyzing and interpreting data," and to the foundational constructionist idea of personal meaning. In our larger study, eighth-grade students, ages 12-14, wore physical activity…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 8, Educational Games, Academic Standards
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Bressler, Denise M.; Shane Tutwiler, M.; Bodzin, Alec M. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2021
We report on a design-based research study that was conducted over three iterations. It chronicles the design, development, and implementation of School Scene Investigators, a forensic science game series for middle school students that utilizes mobile augmented reality. Played on mobile devices while exploring the school environment, School Scene…
Descriptors: Science Interests, Student Interests, Science Education, Educational Games
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Delen, Ibrahim; Krajcik, Joseph – International Journal of Science Education, 2015
Explanation studies underlined the importance of using evidence in support of claims. However, few studies have focused on students' use of others' data (second-hand data) in this process. In this study, students collected data from a local water source and then took all the data back to the classroom to create scientific explanations by using…
Descriptors: Secondary School Science, Middle School Students, Grade 6, Science Process Skills
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Morris, Bradley J.; Masnick, Amy M.; Baker, Katie; Junglen, Angela – International Journal of Science Education, 2015
A critical component of science and math education is reasoning with data. Science textbooks are instructional tools that provide opportunities for learning science content (e.g. facts about force and motion) and process skills (e.g. data recording) that support and augment reasoning with data. In addition, the construction and design of textbooks…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Secondary School Science, Textbooks, Textbook Content
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Sao Pedro, Michael A.; Gobert, Janice D.; Baker, Ryan S. – Grantee Submission, 2014
We explore in this paper if automated scaffolding delivered via a pedagogical agent within a simulation can help students acquire data collection inquiry skills. Our initial analyses revealed that such scaffolding was effective for helping students who initially did not know two specific skills, designing controlled experiments and testing stated…
Descriptors: Automation, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Data Collection
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Gibb, Heather; Miller-Struttmann, Nicole – Science and Children, 2015
Archaeology provides the chance to ask questions about human culture, past and present, using artifacts as evidence. By studying archaeology, students learn about how people in their region found and prepared food, responded to changes in their environment (e.g., flooding, earthquakes, droughts), and interacted with other peoples. This article…
Descriptors: Archaeology, Elementary School Science, Elementary School Students, Grade 4
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Ayar, Mehmet C.; Yalvac, Bugrahan – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2016
In this paper, we discuss the individuals' "roles", "responsibilities", and "routine activities", along with their "goals" and "intentions" in two different contexts--a school science context and a university research context--using sociological lenses. We highlight the distinct characteristics of…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Instructional Design, Science Education, Student Role
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Selmer, Sarah J.; Rye, James A.; Malone, Elizabeth; Fernandez, Danielle; Trebino, Kathryn – Science Activities: Classroom Projects and Curriculum Ideas, 2014
Statistical literacy is essential to scientific literacy, and the quest for such is best initiated in the elementary grades. The "Next Generation Science Standards and the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics" set forth practices (e.g., asking questions, using tools strategically to analyze and interpret data) and content (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Scientific Literacy, Elementary School Students, Science Instruction, Mathematics Instruction
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Jensen, Jill; Kindem, Cathy – Science and Children, 2011
Elementary students make great scientists. They are natural questioners and observers. Capitalizing on this natural curiosity and wonderment, the authors have developed a method of doing inquiry investigations with students that many teachers have found practical and user friendly. Their belief is that full inquiry lessons serve as a vital method…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Secondary School Science, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Rop, Charles J. – American Biology Teacher, 2010
This is a set of animal behavior investigations in which students will practice scientific inquiry as they observe crayfish, ask questions, and discuss territoriality, social interactions, and other behaviors. In doing this, they hone their skills of observation, learn to record and analyze data, control for variables, write hypotheses, make…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Animal Behavior, Biology, Science Instruction
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Gobert, Janice D.; Sao Pedro, Michael; Raziuddin, Juelaila; Baker, Ryan S. – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2013
We present a method for assessing science inquiry performance, specifically for the inquiry skill of designing and conducting experiments, using educational data mining on students' log data from online microworlds in the Inq-ITS system (Inquiry Intelligent Tutoring System; www.inq-its.org). In our approach, we use a 2-step process: First we use…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Science Education, Inquiry, Science Process Skills
Gobert, Janice Darlene; Sao Pedro, Michael A.; Baker, Ryan S. – Grantee Submission, 2012
In this paper we explored whether engaging in two inquiry skills associated with data collection, designing controlled experiments and testing stated hypotheses, within microworlds for one physical science domain (density) impacted the acquisition of inquiry skills in another domain (phase change). To do so, we leveraged educational data mining…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Learning Analytics, Inquiry, Science Process Skills
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