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Šlekiene, Violeta – International Baltic Symposium on Science and Technology Education, 2019
The research analyzes the usage of STEAM program "Cognition of Energy and Thermal Processes" for students of ninth (1st Gymnasium) classes in order to deepen and broaden the knowledge of natural science education, develop practical abilities of students and their scientific researcher's competence. Students were advised to do five…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Art Education, Grade 9, High School Students
Li, Haiying; Gobert, Janice; Dickler, Rachel – Grantee Submission, 2017
Researchers are trying to develop assessments for inquiry practices to elicit students' deep science learning, but few studies have examined the relationship between students' "doing," i.e. "performance assessment," and "writing," i.e. "open responses," during inquiry. Inquiry practices include generating…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Science Instruction, Science Experiments, Writing (Composition)
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Linn, Marcia C. – 1979
This document discusses the relation between adolescents' expertise (their informational background, which can be accurate or inaccurate, about a particular task or subject) and their formal operational reasoning, and reports the results of three studies of the effects of children's expertise on reasoning. In Study I, adolescents from a rural…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescents, Background, Developmental Stages
Carlsen, William S. – 1990
This paper analyzes discrepant findings from research on science teacher knowledge and classroom discourse. In new science teachers' classrooms, discourse during laboratory activities differed in important ways from discourse during other types of instruction. Furthermore, teacher subject-matter knowledge had effects that were not predicted by the…
Descriptors: Biology, Classroom Communication, Communication (Thought Transfer), Discourse Analysis
Lomask, Michal S.; And Others – 1993
An experimental Interactive Video Disc (IVD) assessment program, funded partially by the National Science Foundation, was developed to assess science teachers' knowledge of safe management of lab facilities and activities. The IVD program contains two phases: (1) panoramic view of the lab room, including safety equipment and storage of chemicals;…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, High Schools, Interactive Video, Junior High School Students