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Xiulin Kuang; Tessa H. S. Eysink; Ton de Jong – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
This study investigated the effects of presenting domain information (basic information about the domain) either together with or instead of offering exploratory practice (an exploratory opportunity in a simulation-based representation of the learning domain) prior to inquiry learning for facilitating students' hypothesis generation and subsequent…
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Active Learning, Inquiry, Hypothesis Testing
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Jessica Watkins; Natalie A. De Lucca; Serena R. Pao – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
Preservice secondary science teachers often experience science learning in narrow and marginalizing ways in their science preparation. These experiences cause harm, particularly for preservice teachers of color. They also limit the disciplinary resources they can develop for later teaching science in ways that value and sustain their students'…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Science Education
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Vakil, Sepehr; Reith, Alisa; Melo, Natalie Araujo – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2023
In dialogue with science education and learning sciences research, in this article we develop a disciplinary-specific view on youth and community agency for community-based technology education. Cultivating agency is a central principle in our design and empirical study of the Young People's Race, Power, and Technology Program (YPRPT), a program…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Technology Education, Youth Programs, Inquiry
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Samarapungavan, Ala; Bryan, Lynn A.; Staudt, Carolyn; Sapkota, Bima; Pinto, Hector E. Will; Broadhead, Jamie M.; Kimball, Nathan – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2023
This research explored kindergarten students' learning of simple particle models to explain the properties and behavior of matter in the solid, liquid, and gas states and during phase transitions (evaporation, melting, freezing, and condensation). Science instruction for young learners tends to focus on the concrete and directly observable. This…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Inquiry, Kindergarten, Young Children
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Steven L. Kramer; Janie Scull; Andrew Porter; Christine M. Massey; F. Joseph Merlino; John Y. Baker – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
This study used a cluster randomized controlled trial to investigate the effectiveness of two approaches to increasing middle school students' science learning when using an inquiry-based science curriculum. Eighty-nine schools, with 253 teachers and 20,591 students, were randomly assigned into one of three conditions: (a) a treatment condition in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Science, Science Achievement, Active Learning
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Lori Rubino-Hare; Brooke A. Whitworth; Francis Boateng; Nena Bloom – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
Advances in online geospatial technologies (GST) have expanded access to K-12 classrooms which has implications for the support teachers require to effectively integrate GSTs to promote learning. Previous studies have shown the impact of GST-integrated lessons on student engagement, spatial thinking skills, and/or content knowledge; however, most…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Geographic Information Systems, Elementary Secondary Education, Technology Integration
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Odden, Tor Ole B.; Silvia, Devin W.; Malthe-Sørenssen, Anders – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2023
This article reports on a study investigating how computational essays can be used to help students in higher education STEM take up disciplinary epistemic agency--cognitive control and responsibility over one's own learning within the scientific disciplines. Computational essays are a genre of scientific writing that combine live, executable…
Descriptors: Computation, Essays, Undergraduate Students, STEM Education
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Tang, Kok-Sing – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2022
Argumentation as a scientific practice has largely been examined along an epistemic and/or dialogic perspective in science education research. Both perspectives have sidelined the use of real material objects that are indispensable for scientists to construct arguments about the natural world. To address this gap, this article investigates how…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Secondary Education, Science Education, Grade 9
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Bruckermann, Till; Greving, Hannah; Schumann, Anke; Stillfried, Milena; Börner, Konstantin; Kimmig, Sophia E.; Hagen, Robert; Brandt, Miriam; Harms, Ute – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2023
In citizen science (CS) projects, citizens who are not professional scientists participate in scientific research. Besides serving research purposes, CS projects provide participants opportunities for inquiry-based learning to promote their topic-specific knowledge and scientific reasoning skills. Previous research suggests that participants need…
Descriptors: Science Process Skills, Citizen Participation, Scientific Research, Science Projects
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Jaber, Lama Z.; Dini, Vesal; Hammer, David – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2022
While research shows that responsive teaching fosters students' disciplinary learning and equitable opportunities for participation, there is yet much to know about how teachers come to be responsive to their students' experiences in the science classroom. In this work, we set out to examine whether and how engaging teachers as learners in doing…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Empathy, Equal Education, Online Courses
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Nesimyan-Agadi, Dina; Assaraf, Orit Ben Zvi – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2022
Informal learning environments such as Natural History Museums can introduce visitors to a variety of topics in evolution by providing accessible representations of concepts like geological time, evolutionary mechanisms, biological diversity, geological time, and fossil dating. Our study examined sixth-grade students' conceptualization of…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Extracurricular Activities, Enrichment Activities, Authentic Learning
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Charro, Elena – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2021
A curricular Delphi study was carried out to help improve and develop scientific training for secondary school students in Spain. Using the Delphi method, the authors analyzed the degree of consensus among more than 100 stakeholders' answers to the question, "What aspects of science education are considered desirable for a (Spanish)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Science, Science Education
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Liou, Pey-Yan – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2021
The purpose of this study was to examine the predictive effects of inquiry-based and teacher-directed instructional practices on students' attitudes toward science and science achievement in a nationally representative sample of 7,708 15-year-old-students from Taiwan who took part in the sixth cycle of the Program for International Student…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Scientific Attitudes, Science Achievement, Science Instruction
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Wheeler, Lindsay B.; Gonczi, Amanda L. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2023
This quantitative, exploratory study examined whether a Project-Based Guided Inquiry (PBGI) chemistry laboratory course supported more incremental ability beliefs among students, examined achievement outcomes for students grouped based on changes in student-reported chemistry ability beliefs from pre- to post-course, and provided explanations for…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Teaching Assistants, Ability, Beliefs
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Huang, Ying – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2022
Based on quantitative survey data collected from an inquiry-based general chemistry laboratory course, the current study used marginal models to evaluate changes in students' teamwork and problem-solving skills, attitudes to teamwork, and willingness to explore new issues before and after the course. The results suggest that introductory-level…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, Science Education, Science Laboratories
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