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Direct linkBozzo, Giacomo; Lopez, Victor; Couso, Digna; Monti, Francesca – International Journal of Science Education, 2022
The role of virtual simulations in the evolution of primary school students' mental models about electrostatics is investigated by analysing the answers of two groups of 9-10 years old pupils inside instructional sequences that combine two hands-on activities using balloons and jackets with the same activities using PhET simulations: one group…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Elementary School Science, Schemata (Cognition), Computer Simulation
Bigozzi, Lucia; Tarchi, Christian; Falsini, Paola; Fiorentini, Carlo – International Journal of Science Education, 2014
In this study, a progressive-learning approach to physics, based on knowledge-building pedagogy, was compared to a content-centered approach in which explanations, experiments, and discussions are centered on the transmission of knowledge. Forty-six students attending the first year of high school participated in this study over a whole school…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Secondary School Science, High Schools, Physics
