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Yi Zou; Xinyu Xue; Lizhen Jin; Xiao Huang; Yanbing Li – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Developing a deeper understanding of scientific concepts is one of the primary goals of science education. To improve students' conceptual understanding, it is necessary to explore the major characteristics of their learning process. Informed by previous work on conceptual understanding, this study focuses on the concept of evaporation, exploring…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Scientific Concepts, Physics, Science Instruction
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Xu, Wangyi; Jiang, Yonggui; Yang, Lan; Bao, Lei – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Achieving knowledge integration for deep learning requires students to develop well-connected knowledge structures through the central idea of a concept. However, a number of studies on student learning in momentum have revealed persistent difficulties in understanding its fundamental concept, particularly in relating net force, time, and change…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
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Rudy Brass; Ebunoluwa Braithwaite; Hope E. Edwards; Jasleen Kaur; Anna Kleanthous; Toby T. Madhlangobe; Anand D. Mistry; Ared Suma; Shane Lo Fan Hin; Dylan P. Williams – Journal of Chemical Education, 2024
The gamification of learning has increased in popularity in recent years as a tool for enhancing student engagement and attainment. In undergraduate chemistry courses, hybridization is a fundamental concept that students need to master in order to understand introductory organic and inorganic topics. This study focused on the development of a card…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Introductory Courses, Organic Chemistry
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Tang, Xiaowei; Yang, Liu; Levin, Daniel M. – Cognition and Instruction, 2020
In this study, we explore how cross-linguistic differences can contribute to children's scientific thinking. We compared first and third grade Chinese students' pre-instructional ideas of the earth expressed in clinical interviews with that of their English-speaking and Greek-speaking counterparts (as recorded in the literature). Inspired by a…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Science Education, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics
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Liang, Ling L.; Chen, Sufen; Chen, Xian; Kaya, Osman Nafiz; Adams, April Dean; Macklin, Monica; Ebenezer, Jazlin – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2009
This article presents the findings of an international collaborative investigation into preservice teachers' views on the nature of scientific knowledge development with respect to six elements: observations and inferences, tentativeness, scientific theories and laws, social and cultural embeddedness, creativity and imagination, and scientific…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Scientific Principles, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes
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She, Hsiao-Ching – Journal of Experimental Education, 2005
The author explored the potential to promote students' understanding of difficult science concepts through an examination of the inter-relationships among the teachers' instructional approach, students' learning preference styles, and their levels of learning process. The concept "air pressure," which requires an understanding of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Cognitive Style, Learning Processes, Science Education