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Verena Petermann; Andreas Vorholzer; Claudia von Aufschnaiter – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2025
Science teachers' beliefs about teaching and learning are a vital component of teachers' professional competence and are often assumed to impact classroom practice. To date, these beliefs have been predominantly investigated regarding teaching and learning in general or for a particular science subject (e.g., physics). It remains to be determined…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Teachers, Science Education, Teacher Attitudes
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Schwichow, Martin; Zimmerman, Corinne; Croker, Steve; Härtig, Hendrik – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2016
The ability to design and interpret controlled experiments is an important scientific process skill and a common objective of science standards. Numerous intervention studies have investigated how the control-of-variables-strategy (CVS) can be introduced to students. However, a meta-analysis of 72 intervention studies found that the opportunity to…
Descriptors: Science Experiments, Scientific Methodology, Teaching Methods, Science Process Skills
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Rivera Maulucci, María S.; Brown, Bryan A.; Grey, Salina T.; Sullivan, Shayna – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2014
This study explores the experiences of six urban middle school students in an authentic science inquiry program. Drawing on data including teaching journal entries, student work folders, and semi-structured focus group interviews of six participants, the findings explore six dimensions of authentic science inquiry, an approach to science inquiry…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Reflection, Science Education, Inquiry
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McClary, LaKeisha; Talanquer, Vicente – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2011
The central goal of this study was to characterize the mental models of acids and acid strength expressed by advanced college chemistry students when engaged in prediction, explanation, and justification tasks that asked them to rank chemical compounds based on their relative acid strength. For that purpose we completed a qualitative research…
Descriptors: Prediction, Organic Chemistry, Models, Mental Computation
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Grindstaff, Kelly; Richmond, Gail – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2008
This study investigates the interaction between four pairs of high school students in a 7-week national research apprenticeship program. Each student was interviewed about perceptions of experiences working with a peer in the same setting, and the resulting stories were analyzed. Through discourse analysis of the interviews and interrelated…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Discourse Analysis, Student Attitudes, Interviews
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Germann, Paul J.; And Others – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1996
Uses the Science Process Skills Inventory (SPSI) to analyze student efforts at writing experimental designs. Results indicate that explicit, incremental development of the science process skills of formulating hypotheses and identifying variables, together with model examples, may be a means to facilitate student success in designing science…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Grade 7, Science Education, Science Experiments
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Germann, Paul J.; Aram, Roberta J. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1996
Reports on a study undertaken to develop research rubrics for a performance assessment of science processes and evaluate seventh-grade science students' ability to perform them. Focuses on the processes of recording data, analyzing data, drawing conclusions, and providing evidence. Reports that only 61% of the students performed the activity and…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Data Interpretation
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Harding, Patricia A.; Vining, Leo C. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1997
Discusses the notion that scientific knowledge is not dependable and that knowledge is no longer valued as a part of science. Points out that this has led to approaches that aim to teach scientific methods or problem-solving skills rather than scientific knowledge. Contains 19 references. (DDR)
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Epistemology, Knowledge Representation
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Lawson, Anton E. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2002
Investigates the responses of a sample of preservice biology teachers enrolled in a teaching methods course to a casual question about why water rose in a jar inverted over a burning candle placed in a pan of water by formulating and testing six hypotheses. (Contains 43 references.) (Author/YDS)
Descriptors: Biology, Higher Education, Hypothesis Testing, Inquiry
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Keys, Carolyn W.; Hand, Brian; Prain, Vaughn; Collins, Susan – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1999
Discusses preliminary research on a new heuristic tool for learning from laboratory activities in secondary science. Finds that use of the science writing heuristic facilitated students in generating meaning from data; making connections among procedures, data, evidence, and claims; and engaging in metacognition. (Contains 29 references.)…
Descriptors: Heuristics, Laboratory Experiments, Learning Processes, Science Activities