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Ruiz-Primo, Maria Araceli; Li, Min; Tsai, Shin-Ping; Schneider, Julie – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2010
In this study, we analyzed the quality of students' written scientific explanations found in notebooks and explored the link between the quality of the explanations and students' learning. We propose an approach to systematically analyzing and scoring the quality of students' explanations based on three components: claim, evidence to support it,…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Multiple Choice Tests, Science Instruction, Thinking Skills
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McDermott, Mark A.; Hand, Brian – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2010
This study aims to add to the growing research related to the implementation of non-traditional writing tasks in classrooms to encourage science literacy. A secondary reanalysis methodology was employed to review student interviews collected as a part of several individual studies during a ten year research program. This method established an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scientific Literacy, Transcripts (Written Records), Coding
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Rivard, Leonard P. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1994
Reviews literature on writing to learn in science to develop a conceptual framework and an agenda for future research. Asserts that research is still needed in this area to generalize across a variety of science classrooms and to elucidate principles for guiding effective teacher use of writing-to-learn strategies. Includes 92 references. (ZWH)
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Literature Reviews
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Chinn, Pauline W. U.; Hilgers, Thomas L. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2000
Examines the relationships among instructors' course goals, instructional activities, and students' assessment of their learning of content and writing in writing-intensive undergraduate natural and applied science courses. Finds that instructors are described along a continuum anchored by instructor-as-corrector on one end and…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Course Objectives, Higher Education, Science Instruction
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Hand, Brian; Hohenshell, Liesl; Prain, Vaughan – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2004
Whereas there has been strong advocacy of the value of writing for learning in science, the role of student planning in this approach and the relationships between planning, writing, and learning have been underresearched. Our mixed method study aimed to address this issue by seeking to identify quantitative differences in learning outcomes…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Writing Skills, Secondary Education, Science Instruction
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Florence, Marilyn K.; Yore, Larry D. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2004
This multiple case study examined the coauthorship process in research laboratories of different university departments. The study focused on two cases comprising five writing teams, one in biochemistry and microbiology and four in earth and ocean sciences. The role of the research supervisor, the role of the student (graduate and postgraduate),…
Descriptors: Supervisors, Scientific Research, Microbiology, Laboratories