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Jaime Solís-Pinilla; Cristian Merino-Rubilar – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2024
A systematic review of Threshold Concepts provides a thorough and structured analysis of the existing literature related to these essential and transforming concepts in education. Threshold Concepts represent ideas or knowledge that, once understood, allow the student to access deeper levels of understanding of a discipline. These concepts are…
Descriptors: Fundamental Concepts, Scientific Concepts, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
Manal Abdul Karim Al Momani; Mohareb Alsmadi; Muntaha Farah Sulieman Samardali; Amjad Mohamad Ahmad Al Abdalazez – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2024
Background: This research explores thinking and teaching strategy in sciences teaching by analyzing 2027 research articles from the Web of Science. It is anticipated that groups of keywords, writers, and universities will highlight patterns, offer advice to scholars and teachers, and add to the body of literature already available on the topic.…
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Science Instruction, Databases, Teaching Methods
Chan, Kennedy Kam Ho; Xu, Lihua; Cooper, Rebecca; Berry, Amanda; van Driel, Jan H. – Studies in Science Education, 2021
In recent years, teacher noticing has emerged as a construct to capture the dynamic and situational aspects of teaching expertise that underlies teachers' in-the-moment teaching decisions and actions. In mathematics education research, in particular, teacher noticing has been studied to understand how teachers attend to, and make sense of,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Observation, Science Education, Science Instruction
Shi, Yinghui; Yang, Huiyun; Dou, Yi; Zeng, Yong – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2023
Mind mapping is a visualization tool used in instruction that can be applied by learners to generate ideas, take notes, organize thinking, and develop concepts. Instruction using mind mapping is becoming increasingly commonly used in education. However, research has produced inconsistent results regarding the effectiveness of mind mapping-based…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Educational Strategies, Cognitive Processes, Academic Achievement
Hafizhah Putri, Ananda; Samsudin, Achmad; Suhandi, Andi – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2022
This systematic review is aimed to explore the researches that established students' conceptual change process, both studies that facilitate conceptual change and studies that determined learner characters influencing conceptual change. Overall, 50 studies were examined in this review. The current study focused on the common characteristics of the…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, COVID-19, Pandemics
Agustian, Hendra Y.; Seery, Michael K. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2017
In this article we summarise over 60 reports and research articles on pre-laboratory activities in higher education chemistry. In the first section of the review, we categorise these activities as follows. First are those intending to introduce chemical concepts, that typically take the form of a pre-laboratory lecture, pre-laboratory quizzes, and…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Chemistry, Science Laboratories, College Science
Price, C. Aaron; Lee, Hee-Sun; Plummer, Julia D.; SubbaRao, Mark; Wyatt, Ryan – Journal of Astronomy & Earth Sciences Education, 2015
Stereoscopy's potential as a tool for science education has been largely eclipsed by its popularity as an entertainment platform and marketing gimmick. Dozens of empirical papers have been published in the last decade about the impact of stereoscopy on learning. As a result, a corpus of research now points to a coherent message about how, when,…
Descriptors: Position Papers, Science Instruction, Science Education, Cognitive Processes
Brame, Cynthia J. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2016
Educational videos have become an important part of higher education, providing an important content-delivery tool in many flipped, blended, and online classes. Effective use of video as an educational tool is enhanced when instructors consider three elements: how to manage cognitive load of the video; how to maximize student engagement with the…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Educational Technology, Video Technology, Teaching Methods
Maier, Michaela; Rothmund, Tobias; Retzbach, Andrea; Otto, Lukas; Besley, John C. – Educational Psychologist, 2014
This article reviews current research on informal science learning through news media. Based on a descriptive model of media-based science communication we distinguish between (a) the professional routines by which journalists select and depict scientific information in traditional media and (b) the psychological processes that account for how…
Descriptors: Informal Education, News Media, Science Instruction, Journalism
Sandoval, William A.; Sodian, Beate; Koerber, Susanne; Wong, Jacqueline – Educational Psychologist, 2014
Science educators have long been concerned with how formal schooling contributes to learners' capacities to engage with science after school. This article frames productive engagement as fundamentally about the coordination of claims with evidence, but such coordination requires a number of reasoning capabilities to evaluate the strength of…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Science Process Skills, Competence
Hamilton, Harley – American Annals of the Deaf, 2011
The author reviews research on working memory and short-term memory abilities of deaf individuals, delineating strengths and weaknesses. Among the areas of weakness that are reviewed are sequential recall, processing speed, attention, and memory load. Areas of strengths include free recall, visuospatial recall, imagery, and dual encoding.…
Descriptors: Deafness, Short Term Memory, Recall (Psychology), Spatial Ability
Hamilton, Harley – Online Submission, 2011
This paper will review research on working memory and short-term memory abilities of deaf individuals delineating strengths and weaknesses. The areas of memory reviewed include weaknesses such as sequential recall, processing speed, attention, and memory load. Strengths include free recall, visuospatial recall, imagery and dual encoding.…
Descriptors: Deafness, Short Term Memory, Recall (Psychology), Spatial Ability
Sensevy, Gerard; Tiberghien, Andree; Santini, Jerome; Laube, Sylvain; Griggs, Peter – Science Education, 2008
Models and modeling are a major issue in science studies and in science education. In addressing such an issue, we first propose an epistemological discussion based on the works of Cartwright (1983, 1999), Fleck (1935/1979), and Hacking (1983). This leads us to emphasize the transitions between the abstract and the concrete in the modeling…
Descriptors: Teaching Models, Science Instruction, Case Studies, Epistemology
Cakir, Mustafa – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2008
This paper draws attention to the literature in the areas of learning, specifically, constructivism, conceptual change and cognitive development. It emphasizes the contribution of such research to our understanding of the learning process. This literature provides guidelines for teachers, at all levels, in their attempt to have their students…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Cognitive Structures, Learning Processes, Science Teachers

Echevarria, Marissa – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2003
Knowledge construction and scientific reasoning were examined during a unit in genetics, in which anomalies were used as a catalyst for student learning. Students used genetics simulation software to develop hypotheses and run tests of fruit fly crosses to develop mental models of simple dominance trait transmission. Instruction was intended to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Genetics, Instructional Effectiveness, Middle School Students