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Shulan Xia; Peida Zhan; Kennedy Kam Ho Chan; Lijun Wang – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
Concept mapping is widely used as a tool for assessing students' understanding of science. To fully realize the diagnostic potential of concept mapping, a scoring method that not only provides an objective and accurate assessment of students' drawn concept maps but also provides a detailed understanding of students' proficiency and deficiencies in…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Student Evaluation, Scoring, Science Education
Lapierre, Keith R.; Flynn, Alison B. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2020
In this study, we investigated how students organized their knowledge about organic chemistry reactions in a transformed curriculum, including their choices, abilities, and changes over time. This transformed curriculum focuses on interpreting the underlying mechanistic patterns of chemical reactions and emphasizes the principles of reactivity in…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, College Students, Science Process Skills, Task Analysis
Andersen, Katja N. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2020
Task orientation is currently a prominent concept under discussion in primary school didactics. It focuses on tasks along which pupils acquire competences on distinct levels of competence. The qualitative empirical study TAPSE (Textbook Analysis in Primary Science Education) pursues the question which conception of task orientation is present in…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Science Education, Textbooks, Textbook Content
Shea, Molly V.; Jurow, A. Susan; Schiffer, Jovita; Escudé, Meg; Torres, Aurora – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2023
This article offers a qualitative analysis of infrastructural in/justice in a community-partnered design intervention focused on developing high-tech low-cost Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math (STEAM) projects. We examined the kinds of infrastructural injustices that were present in three afterschool programs and how it shaped STEAM…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Art Education, After School Programs, Community Programs
Lindahl, Mats G.; Folkesson, Anne-Mari; Zeidler, Dana L. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2019
Students' difficulties in interpreting what counts as knowledge have been addressed in past research on science education. The implementation of progressivist pedagogy in terms of more student-active classroom practice and the introduction of a variety of discourses into the science classroom deepens students' difficulties. The integration of…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Difficulty Level, Teaching Methods, Classification
Tekkumru-Kisa, Miray; Stein, Mary Kay; Schunn, Christian – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2015
Many countries, including the United States, emphasize the importance of developing students' scientific habits of mind and their capacity to think deeply about scientific ideas in an integrated fashion. Recent science education policies in the United States portray a related vision of science teaching and learning that is meant to guide the…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Science Instruction
Gotwals, Amelia Wenk; Songer, Nancy Butler – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2013
This article evaluates a validity argument for the degree to which assessment tasks are able to provide evidence about knowledge that fuses information from a progression of core disciplinary ideas in ecology and a progression for the scientific practice of developing evidence-based explanations. The article describes the interpretive framework…
Descriptors: Validity, Science Instruction, Evidence, Classification
Allen, Michael – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2015
Although taxonomic proficiency is a prerequisite for understanding ideas central to biology, previous research has established that learners frequently misclassify animals by not following the tenets of accepted taxonomic rubrics. This has immediate relevance with the recently revised English National Curriculum now requiring concepts of animal…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Knowledge Level, Animals, Classification
Swarat, Su; Light, Greg; Park, Eun Jung; Drane, Denise – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2011
The importance of "size and scale" in nanoscience and engineering has been recognized by both scientists and science educators. A solid understanding of this concept is key to the learning of nanoscience. Students, however, have been reported to have considerable difficulty grasping this concept; yet little is known regarding their state…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Science, Engineering Education, Student Attitudes
Stains, Marilyne; Talanquer, Vicente – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2008
In this study we explore the strategies that undergraduate and graduate chemistry students use when engaged in classification tasks involving symbolic and microscopic (particulate) representations of different chemical reactions. We were specifically interested in characterizing the basic features to which students pay attention when classifying…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Chemistry, Classification

Lumpe, Andrew T.; Staver, John R. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1995
Discusses findings of a study designed to achieve two goals: (1) determine the affect of peer collaboration on high school biology students' acquisition of concepts related to photosynthesis, and (2) examine interactions in a collaborative peer group situation to determine how these interactions relate to the development of concepts associated…
Descriptors: Biology, Classification, Concept Formation, Cooperative Learning

Glynn, Shawn M.; Muth, K. Denise – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1994
There is a chasm in our knowledge of the relationship that exists between reading-writing and scientific literacy. This article was written with the intent of stimulating research on writing and reading to learn science. (ZWH)
Descriptors: Classification, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Instruction, Science Education

Koran, John J., Jr.; And Others – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1983
Reviews past studies on research in natural history museums and science centers, proposes a taxonomy of exhibits in museum settings, and focuses attention of factors which should be considered when studying/learning in these settings. Also presents potentially productive methods of conceptualizing research and suggests possible future lines of…
Descriptors: Classification, Exhibits, Museums, Participation

Lowell, Walter E. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1979
Explores the relationship of an individual's reliance or nonreliance upon concrete cues in problem solving and performance on a model-based measure of hierarchical classification. Level of cognitive development, as determined by performance on Piaget-type tasks, generally predicted hierarchical classification ability of junior- and senior-high…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Development, Educational Research, Problem Solving

Windschitl, Mark – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2001
Identifies, describes, and categorizes events occurring between members of different learning groups in three ninth-grade physical science classrooms. Explains how concepts, ideas, tools, tool-related practices, and materials diffused throughout the classroom environment were appropriated by learners in various ways to contribute to the…
Descriptors: Classification, Grade 9, Group Dynamics, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
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