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Zukswert, Jenna M.; Barker, Megan K.; McDonnell, Lisa – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2019
The excessive "jargon" load in biology may be a hurdle for developing conceptual understanding as well as achieving core competencies such as scientific literacy and communication. Little work has been done to characterize student understanding of biology-specific jargon. To address this issue, we aimed to determine the types of biology…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Literacy, Jargon, Biology
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Dorfner, Tobias; Förtsch, Christian; Neuhaus, Birgit J. – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2020
Educational standards and instructional frameworks aim to foster students' scientific literacy, especially their conceptual knowledge. Previous research has examined several instructional approaches to foster students' conceptual learning. Reliable and adequate use of technical terms in science instruction is also essential for fostering students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Jargon, Biology, Science Instruction
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Chrzanowski, Marcin M.; Grajkowski, Wojciech; Zuchowski, Szymon; Spalik, Krzysztof; Ostrowska, E. Barbara – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2018
The aim of this study was to identify, classify and describe different types of vernacular misconceptions assessed with the items used in a study named "Laboratory of Thinking," Diagnosis of Science Education in Poland. We provide an outline of contemporary conceptual change theories and establish a typology of misconceptions where it…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Misconceptions, Science Education
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Pan, Steven C.; Cooke, James; Little, Jeri L.; McDaniel, Mark A.; Foster, Erin R.; Connor, Lisa Tabor; Rickard, Timothy C. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2019
Mastery of jargon terms is an important part of student learning in biology and other science, technology, engineering, and mathematics domains. In two experiments, we investigated whether prelecture quizzes enhance memory for jargon terms, and whether that enhanced familiarity can facilitate learning of related concepts that are encountered…
Descriptors: Jargon, Definitions, Biology, Scientific Concepts
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McDonnell, Lisa; Barker, Megan K.; Wieman, Carl – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2016
In this experiment, students in a large undergraduate biology course were first exposed to the concepts without new technical vocabulary ("jargon") in a pre-class reading assignment. Their learning of the concepts and jargon was compared with that of an equivalent group of students in another section of the same course, whose pre-class…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Jargon, Undergraduate Students, Biology
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Albadi, Nouf Mohammed; O'Toole, John Mitchell; Harkins, Jean – Electronic Journal of Science Education, 2017
Reading research in K-12 English-speaking contexts reveals that inferential and expository texts cause substantial difficulty for students but less such research exists regarding other languages. It was the purpose of this quantitative cloze-based study to expose any relationship between student difficulty and particular features of the Arabic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Difficulties, High School Students, Secondary School Science
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Harlow, Danielle B.; Bianchini, Julie A.; Swanson, Lauren H.; Dwyer, Hilary A. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2013
We used a "knowledge in pieces" perspective on teacher learning to document undergraduates' pedagogical resources in a model-based physics course for potential teachers. We defined pedagogical resources as small, discrete ideas about teaching science that are applied appropriately or inappropriately in specific contexts. Neither…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Undergraduate Students, Teacher Education