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Yajun Wei; Yi Zhong; Feipeng Pi – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
Video instruction has been widely studied and is generally considered as effective as live instruction for teaching scientific concepts and procedures. However, there is limited research on the effectiveness of prerecorded videos for teaching more challenging content. This study conducted a controlled experiment on over 300 high school students to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Video Technology, Science Instruction
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Siyong Tang; Prasert Ruannakarn – Higher Education Studies, 2024
Modern society is complex and ever-changing. To adapt to this situation, the level of education must be continuously enhanced, and college students who are about to enter society are the group that needs the most attention. As a creative and effective teaching organizational form and teaching strategy, the cooperative learning method plays an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Teaching Methods, Cooperative Learning
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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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Xu, Wangyi; Liu, Qiaoyi; Koenig, Kathleen; Fritchman, Joseph; Han, Jing; Pan, Sudong; Bao, Lei – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
Momentum is a foundational concept in physics. Although it is often taught in introductory mechanics courses, there are a limited number of studies on this topic in the literature. The results from these studies have consistently shown that students have difficulties in understanding momentum, especially the connections between net force, time,…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Introductory Courses
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Chengran Wang; Bing Wei – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
The notion of scientific visual literacy has been advocated in recent science curriculum reform documents and related learning outcomes are expected from students. However, few studies have been conducted to determine how it is tested in high-stakes examinations. This study utilized the Visualization Blooming Tool to examine the level of visual…
Descriptors: Physics, Scientific Literacy, Science Tests, Thinking Skills
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Zou, Yi; Jin, Lizhen; Li, Yanbing; Hu, Tao – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2022
Students' problem-solving ability depends on their understanding of related scientific concepts. Therefore, the modeling and assessment of students' understanding of specific scientific concepts is important to promote students' problem-solving ability, as it can find students' understanding difficulties and explore breakthrough strategies…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Student Evaluation
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Zengze Liu; Sudong Pan; Lei Bao – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Student learning in simple electric circuits has been an important area in physics education research. This study builds off a previous investigation that applied the conceptual framework model to examine knowledge integration in student learning of simple electric circuits and developed a multiple-choice concept test for assessing knowledge…
Descriptors: Electronic Equipment, Science Instruction, Physics, Teaching Methods
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Xiang, Jia-Wen; Han, Cai-Qin – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2021
Employers believe that people with the ability to work in teams can bring success to their business. Therefore, it is very essential to start cultivating students' teamwork skills in lower-secondary school to prepare students for the future. This study took "Physics in Bicycles" as an example to explore the effect of Teaching and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness
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Tang, Qianghong – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2023
Protocol-guided teaching is a student-centered instructional model in which the teacher creates the learning protocol prior to the lesson in order to direct students toward active and autonomous learning. A well-structured learning protocol is essential for the effective application of this instructional paradigm. This article evaluates the…
Descriptors: Physics, Secondary School Students, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Zhu, Lilin; Xiang, Gang – Physics Education, 2022
We report on the study of student difficulties regarding a heat engine in the context of a Stirling cycle by the method of measurement. An in-class test about a Stirling engine with a regenerator was taken by three classes, and the students were asked to perform one of the most basic activities--calculate the efficiency of the heat engine. Our…
Descriptors: Heat, Physics, Science Instruction, Engines
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Xing, Hongjun; Zhai, Yanfang; Han, Sisi; Zhao, Yuping; Gong, Wenhui; Wang, Yuting; Han, Jing; Liu, Qiaoyi – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2022
Problem solving is considered one of the most critical competencies for life. However, many students may perform well in school yet cannot transfer the skills they learned in school to solve real-world problems, especially in science education. This study discusses the characteristics of the problem from the physics education perspective, based on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Science, Science Instruction
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Li, Xiying; Tan, Zuyu; Shen, Jiliang; Hu, Weiping; Chen, Yinghe; Wang, Jingying – Research in Science Education, 2020
Based on the "analytical framework of nature of science" (NOS) in junior school science textbooks, a content analysis method was adopted to analyze the NOS in junior middle school physical textbooks (grade 8) of five editions authorized by the Ministry of Education of China, and the features of NOS were analyzed and compared. It was…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Grade 8, Textbooks, Scientific Principles
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Wei, Bing; Jiang, Zhimeng; Gai, Lichun – Science & Education, 2022
Practical work is a distinctive feature of school science and has close associations with scientific experiment and scientific methods as well. In this study, the nature of practical work was examined in the view of the diversity of scientific methods. Based on an analytical framework derived from Brandon's matrix consisting of four categories of…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Textbook Evaluation, Biology, Chemistry
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Chen, Cheng; Bao, Lei; Fritchman, Joseph C.; Ma, Hemin – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
Causal reasoning is a fundamental cognitive process that supports a wide range of learning activities such as making predictions and inferences, explaining phenomena, and drawing conclusions. In physics learning, causal reasoning plays an important role in developing conceptual understanding and problem-solving skills. This study builds off the…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Thinking Skills, Prediction, Inferences
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