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Xiulin Kuang; Tessa H. S. Eysink; Ton de Jong – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
This study investigated the effects of presenting domain information (basic information about the domain) either together with or instead of offering exploratory practice (an exploratory opportunity in a simulation-based representation of the learning domain) prior to inquiry learning for facilitating students' hypothesis generation and subsequent…
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Active Learning, Inquiry, Hypothesis Testing
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Jeffrey Nordine; Marcus Kubsch; David Fortus; Joseph Krajcik; Knut Neumann – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
One reason for the widespread use of the energy concept across the sciences is that energy analysis can be used to interpret the behavior of systems even if one does not know the particular mechanisms that underlie the observed behavior. By providing an approach to interpreting unfamiliar phenomena, energy provides a lens on phenomena that can set…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Energy, Scientific Concepts, Science Instruction
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Chulkyu Park; Seonyeong Mun; Hun-Gi Hong – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
The purpose of this case study, informed by a Lakatosian perspective, is to identify how an alternative conception that originates in present learning but is related directly to subsequent learning contexts can be constructed. Before the study, one of the authors found by accident that a student who had learned about Avogadro's principle and…
Descriptors: High School Students, Knowledge Level, Scientific Concepts, Fuels
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Sharday N. Ewell; Alayna Harvey; Amanda Clark; Megan E. Maloney; Laurie S. Stevison; Cissy J. Ballen – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2025
An inequitable distribution of resources and opportunities for marginalized students (i.e., opportunity gaps) leads to challenges in identifying effective study behaviors, metacognition, and academic help-seeking in higher education. While students benefit when these skills are taught explicitly through co-curricular workshops and courses, these…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Metacognition, Undergraduate Study, Undergraduate Students
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Idsardi, Robert C.; Luft, Julie A.; Wingfield, Jenna L.; Whitt, Blake; Barriga, Paola A.; Lang, Jason D. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2023
Supporting changes in undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) instruction requires an understanding of the relationship between STEM instructors' conceptions and practices. In this study, the authors used the Teacher-Centered Systematic Reform (TCSR) model as a framework to understand how instructors' conceptions are…
Descriptors: STEM Education, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Change
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Robert W. Danielson; Benjamin C. Heddy; Onur Ramazan; Gan Jin; Kanvarbir S. Gill; Danielle N. Berry – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2025
Misinformation has been extensively studied as both maliciously intended propaganda and accidentally experienced incorrect assumptions. We contend that "conceptual contamination" is the process by which the learning of incorrect information interferes, pollutes, or otherwise disrupts the learning of correct information. This is similar…
Descriptors: Misinformation, Propaganda, Deception, Misconceptions
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Nesimyan-Agadi, Dina; Assaraf, Orit Ben Zvi – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2022
Informal learning environments such as Natural History Museums can introduce visitors to a variety of topics in evolution by providing accessible representations of concepts like geological time, evolutionary mechanisms, biological diversity, geological time, and fossil dating. Our study examined sixth-grade students' conceptualization of…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Extracurricular Activities, Enrichment Activities, Authentic Learning
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Xiaoshan Li; Chong Peng – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
Collaborative argumentation has been recognized as a powerful means to facilitate conceptual change of scientific concepts for which students have robust misconceptions. However, eliciting and maintaining collaborative argumentation that yields such productive outcomes is known to be difficult. Specifically, social-motivational antecedents have…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Goal Orientation, Cooperation, Persuasive Discourse
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Sage Andersen; María González-Howard; Karina Méndez Pérez – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
This study explored a middle school science teacher's curricular sensemaking in interaction with their use of an educative storyline curriculum, aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards, that was intentionally designed for more opportunities for students' scientific sensemaking. Using a phenomenological case study methodology, we examined…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Curriculum Implementation, Science Curriculum
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Ti'Era Worsley; Edna Tan – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2025
This article looks at how a Black informal STEM educator supported two Black boys' learning opportunities in coding, specifically investigating how the establishment of politicized trust between the informal STEM educator and youth supported their development of critical agency. Using the dual lenses of socio-spatial relationality and politicized…
Descriptors: Males, STEM Education, Coding, Personal Autonomy
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Saleh, Asmalina; Yuxin, Chen; Hmelo-Silver, Cindy E.; Glazewski, Krista D.; Mott, Bradford W.; Lester, James C. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2020
Collaborative inquiry learning affords educators a context within which to support understanding of scientific practices, disciplinary core ideas, and crosscutting concepts. One approach to supporting collaborative science inquiry is through problem-based learning (PBL). However, there are two key challenges in scaffolding collaborative inquiry…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Cooperative Learning, Active Learning, Inquiry
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Jaber, Lama Z.; Dini, Vesal; Hammer, David – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2022
While research shows that responsive teaching fosters students' disciplinary learning and equitable opportunities for participation, there is yet much to know about how teachers come to be responsive to their students' experiences in the science classroom. In this work, we set out to examine whether and how engaging teachers as learners in doing…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Empathy, Equal Education, Online Courses
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Alexandra Okada – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
National governments are concerned about the disconnection of young people from science, which hampers the development of a scientifically literate society promoting sustainable development, wellbeing, equity, and a green economy. Introduced in 2015 alongside Agenda 2030, the "open schooling" approach aims at enhancing students' science…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers, Secondary School Science
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Huang, Ying – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2022
Based on quantitative survey data collected from an inquiry-based general chemistry laboratory course, the current study used marginal models to evaluate changes in students' teamwork and problem-solving skills, attitudes to teamwork, and willingness to explore new issues before and after the course. The results suggest that introductory-level…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, Science Education, Science Laboratories
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Littrell, Megan K.; Gold, Anne U.; Koskey, Kristin L. K.; May, Toni A.; Leckey, Erin; Okochi, Christine – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2022
The Transformative Experience Questionnaire (TEQ) has previously been used only in formal science learning environments to examine how students' learning experiences extend beyond the classroom into their daily lives. In the present study, an example of how this tool can be useful to assess transformative experiences in an informal learning…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Scores, Science Instruction, Learning Experience
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