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Direct linkKawasaki, Keiko; Herrenkohl, Leslie Rupert; Yeary, Sherry A. – International Journal of Science Education, 2004
The purpose of this paper is to carefully examine the evolution of students' theory building and modeling, critical components of scientific epistemologies, over a unit of study on sinking and floating in one third/fourth grade classroom. The study described in this paper follows in the tradition of Design Experiments (Brown 1992, Collins 1990)…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Science Instruction, Elementary School Science, Scientific Principles
Besson, Ugo – International Journal of Science Education, 2004
This article describes a research study concerning students' conceptions and reasonings about fluids and pressure in static situations. After a preliminary survey involving interviews and observations in class, some written questions were answered by various groups, totalling 428 Italian and French pupils in upper secondary school, 458 first-year…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Higher Education
Robinson, W. P.; Gillibrand, E. – International Journal of Science Education, 2004
The primary purpose was to investigate the efficacy of a full year of single-sex (SS) teaching of science. The secondary aims were to locate any differentiation by set and gender, and to relate these to more proximal variables. Participants were 13 year olds. Higher set girls gave evidence of clear benefits overall, and higher set boys also,…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Gender Differences
Pilatou, Vassiliki; Stavridou, Heleni – International Journal of Science Education, 2004
The aim of this study was to detect primary students' conceptions about the origin and conveyance of electric current and about the connection of household electric appliances. In total, 383 students (aged 11-12) from the town of Volos, Greece, participated; 213 of them drawn from experimental classes and 170 from control groups. The results…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Electronic Equipment, Science Instruction
Oshima, Jun; Oshima, Ritsuko; Murayama, Isao; Inagaki, Shigenori; Takenaka, Makiko; Nakayama, Hayashi; Yamaguchi, Etsuji – International Journal of Science Education, 2004
This paper reports design experiments on two Japanese elementary science lesson units in a sixth-grade classroom supported by computer support for collaborative learning (CSCL) technology as a collaborative reflection tool. We took different approaches in the experiments depending on their instructional goals. In the unit 'air and how things…
Descriptors: Hypothesis Testing, Elementary School Science, Science Instruction, Foreign Countries
Jarvis, Tina; Pell, Anthony – International Journal of Science Education, 2004
Changes in 70 teachers' confidence, attitudes and science understanding were tested before and after a major in-service programme. Attitudes were assessed using a 49-item Likert-scale test that probed attitudes to practical science teaching and in-service training. Multi-choice and open-ended questions measured understanding of electricity;…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Inservice Teacher Education, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
