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Direct linkAyodele Abosede Ogegbo; Umesh Ramnarain; Joseph Krajcik – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
Inquiry-Based Teaching Practice (IBTP) is an essential component of science education, and promoting its implementation is at the heart of various reform efforts. Even though science teachers regard IBTP as an essential pedagogical method, they rarely use it for various reasons. This study utilizes Bronfenbrenner's ecological framework to examine…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Teaching Methods, Active Learning, Inquiry
Akuma, Fru Vitalis; Callaghan, Ronel – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2019
Around the world, there have been curricula reforms involving the incorporation of the inquiry-based teaching and learning strategy in secondary school science education in general and in practical work in particular. Research in inquiry-based practical work (IBPW) has focused, for example, on aspects of the strategy itself, on teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Faculty Development
Copur-Gencturk, Yasemin; Hug, Barbara; Lubienski, Sarah Theule – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2014
This study examines the impact of a new master's degree program on the instructional practices of K-8 in-service teachers. This 2.5-year master's program was designed to deepen in-service teachers' knowledge in science and mathematics and promote greater use of reform-oriented instruction. Teachers' instructional practices were…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Science Instruction, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Teachers
Rogan, John; Aldous, Colleen – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2005
Planned educational change occurs regularly throughout the world. With the enormous political change the 1994 elections brought to South Africa, a complete change in education policies was called for. The new Curriculum 2005 (C2005; Department of Education, RSA, [1997]) embraced new teaching and learning approaches such as outcomes-based education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Politics of Education, Outcome Based Education
Kelly, Michael P.; Staver, John R. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2005
In this investigation we employed a case study approach with qualitative and quantitative data sources to examine and discover the characteristics of the processes used by a midwestern U.S. school system to adopt and implement a new K-6 science curriculum. Analysis of data yielded several results. Elementary teachers received what they requested,…
Descriptors: Science Programs, Science Achievement, Hands on Science, Elementary School Science
Shymansky, James A.; Yore, Larry D.; Anderson, John O. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2004
This article is about one school district's effort to reform its elementary science curriculum through a program of professional development called Science, Parents, Activities and Literature (Science PALs). The differential exposure of the district's K-6 teachers to Science PALs and differences in how well teachers implemented Science PALs-type…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, Teacher Participation, Educational Change
