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Asakle, Shadi; Barak, Miri – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2022
Location-based learning refers to place-based education conducted online with the use of geographic information systems and mobile devices; with the shift to distance learning, its integration in science education warrants careful evaluation. The goal of this study was to examine the effect of location-based learning on students' understanding of…
Descriptors: Motion, Physics, Situated Learning, Concept Formation
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Swan, Kathleen; Crowley, Ryan; Grant, S. G.; Lee, John; Swan, Gerry; Stivers, Callaway; Sweeney, Gates – Social Education, 2021
The "College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards" (NCSS, 2013) places inquiry at the center of good social studies teaching and learning. Instead of social studies courses that emphasize rote memorization through the use of textbooks and lecture-based instruction, the C3 Framework asks teachers to…
Descriptors: Social Studies, State Standards, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
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Samon, Sigal; Levy, Sharona T. – Science Education, 2017
The study explores how a complexity approach empowers science learning. A complexity approach represents systems as many interacting entities. The construct of micro-macro compatibility is introduced, the degree of similarity between behaviors at the micro- and macro-levels of the system. Seventh-grade students' learning about gases was studied…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Systems Approach, Science Education, Secondary School Students
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Chiu, Fu-Yuan – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2014
This study constructed a cloud-based student, teacher, and parent platform (CSTPP) in collaboration with a Taiwanese textbook publisher. Junior high school students' attitudes to learning English using the developed system were subsequently examined. The study participants were divided into 3 groups: Those in Group A employed the CSTPP with…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Parent Participation
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Wiersma, Ashley – Social Studies, 2008
The purpose of this study was to investigate and characterize current practice in secondary history education and its relationship to best practices. In this phenomenological study, the author examines the pedagogy of three high school history teachers and the extent to which their current methods exhibited recent thinking on best practices in…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Secondary School Teachers
Stamper, John, Ed.; Pardos, Zachary, Ed.; Mavrikis, Manolis, Ed.; McLaren, Bruce M., Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2014
The 7th International Conference on Education Data Mining held on July 4th-7th, 2014, at the Institute of Education, London, UK is the leading international forum for high-quality research that mines large data sets in order to answer educational research questions that shed light on the learning process. These data sets may come from the traces…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Data Processing, Data Analysis, Data Collection