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Brinley Kantorski; Kelly Bruzdewicz; Sarah Will; John A. Pollock – Discover Education, 2025
Games are a powerful tool for learning, offering unique benefits for student engagement, particularly when addressing complex or challenging topics. The general public's understanding of how vaccines are made is limited and the general public is unaware of the comprehensive research, development, and safety measures that are inherent in vaccine…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Cooperative Learning, Instructional Design, Research and Development
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Phillip A. Boda; Shruti Bathia; Libby Gerard; Marcia C. Linn – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2024
Advances in graphing technologies and learning sciences pedagogy have the potential to equitably support students when exploring complex systems depicting dynamic relationships across multiple disciplinary topics in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). We report on the cumulative impact of science units designed in a Research…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Graphs, Interdisciplinary Approach
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John Henriksson; Gunilla Eklund; Jessica Aspfors – Journal of Teacher Education and Educators, 2024
Previous studies have revealed some ambiguity regarding the role of research in teacher education and teachers 'use of research in their profession. In view of this, a research project was started in 2019 with the aim of developing a connection between research and practice through a popular scientific approach. Student teachers create video…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Transfer of Training, Teacher Characteristics, Teacher Education
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Arista, Fitra Suci; Kuswanto, Heru – International Journal of Instruction, 2018
The research study concerned here was to: (1) produce a virtual physics laboratory application to be called ViPhyLab by using the Android smartphone as basis; (2) determine the appropriateness and quality of the virtual physics laboratory application that had been developed; and (3) describe the improvement in learning independence and conceptual…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
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Coffey, Janet E.; Hammer, David; Levin, Daniel M.; Grant, Terrance – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2011
We raise concerns about the current state of research and development in formative assessment, specifically to argue that in its concentration on "strategies for the teacher", the literature overlooks the "disciplinary substance" of what teachers and students assess. Our argument requires analysis of specific instances in the literature, and so we…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, High School Students, Biology, Secondary School Science
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Clark, Douglas B.; Nelson, Brian C.; Chang, Hsin-Yi; Martinez-Garza, Mario; Slack, Kent; D'Angelo, Cynthia M. – Computers & Education, 2011
This study investigates the potential of a digital game that overlays popular game-play mechanics with formal physics representations and terminology to support explicit learning and exploration of Newtonian mechanics. The analysis compares test data, survey data, and observational data collected during implementations in Taiwan and the United…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Research and Development, Student Attitudes, Mechanics (Physics)
Susianna, Nancy – Online Submission, 2011
The objectives of this research were to identify the characteristics and effectiveness of chemistry teaching programs that increase students' entrepreneurial attitudes, chemistry concepts understanding and creativity. The research design application refers to the R & D (Research and Development) Design. Seventy-three senior high school students…
Descriptors: Creativity, Research and Development, Learning Activities, Chemistry
Koballa, Thomas R., Jr.; And Others – 1989
This volume presents a compilation and review of more than 400 research studies on science teaching and the preparation of science teachers that were reported in 1988, organized into 10 sections. The sections are: (1) "Professional Concerns"; (2) "Teacher Education"; (3)"Programs"; (4) "Curriculum"; (5)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, College Science, Computer Uses in Education