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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
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
Kapon, Shulamit; Schvartzer, Maayan; Peer, Tal – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2021
This article discusses a case study of a pair of students mentored by a physics teacher as they engaged in a long-term (15 months) engineering maker-based inquiry (EMBI), a mandatory part of these students' formal learning of physics at the advanced high school level. We conceptualize the students' engagement as participating in a particular…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Physics, Inquiry, Science Instruction
Yang, Yang; Liu, Xiufeng; Gardella, Joseph A., Jr. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2020
Situated in the context of an in-service professional development (PD) program focused on Interdisciplinary Science Inquiry, this quantitative study tests the validity of and further explores the theoretical model adapted from Desimone's (2009), "Educational Researcher," 38, 181-199 conceptual framework on effectiveness of PD. The…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Program Effectiveness, Science Teachers, Scientific Concepts
Scalise, Kathleen; Clarke-Midura, Jody – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2018
Science education frameworks in the United States have moved strongly in recent years to incorporate more dimensions of learning, including measuring student use of scientific practices employed during scientific inquiry. For instance, the Next Generation Science Standards and related multidimensional frameworks adopted or adapted recently by more…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Student Research, Science Process Skills, Scientific Concepts
Kampourakis, Kostas – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2016
Teaching about nature of science (NOS) is considered as an important goal of science education in various countries. Extensive empirical research about how some aspects of NOS can be effectively taught is also available. The most widely adopted conceptualization of NOS is based on a small number of general aspects of NOS, which fall into two…
Descriptors: Science Education, Scientific Principles, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
Apanasionok, Magdalena M.; Hastings, Richard P.; Grindle, Corinna F.; Watkins, Richard C.; Paris, Andreas – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2019
A comprehensive review of the literature was conducted to identify current practice on teaching science to students with intellectual disability (ID) and/or Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in relation to two review questions--students' science outcomes and students' and teachers' experiences of the interventions. Six databases related to education,…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Outcomes of Education, Intellectual Disability
Brown, Julie C. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2017
Employing metasynthesis as a method, this study examined 52 empirical articles on culturally relevant and responsive science education in K-12 settings to determine the nature and scope of complementarity between culturally responsive and inquiry-based science practices (i.e., science and engineering practices identified in the National Research…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Synthesis, Culturally Relevant Education, Active Learning
Samarapungavan, Ala; Bryan, Lynn; Wills, Jamison – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2017
In this paper, we present a study of second graders' learning about the nature of matter in the context of content-rich, model-based inquiry instruction. The goal of instruction was to help students learn to use simple particle models to explain states of matter and phase changes. We examined changes in students' ideas about matter, the coherence…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Scientific Concepts, Inquiry
Ryoo, Kihyun; Linn, Marcia C. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2016
Advances in automated scoring technologies have the potential to support student learning during inquiry instruction by providing timely and adaptive guidance on individual students' responses. To identify which forms of automated guidance can be beneficial for inquiry learning, we compared reflective guidance to directive guidance for…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Inquiry, Computer Assisted Testing, Scoring
To Customize or Not to Customize? Exploring Science Teacher Customization in an Online Lesson Portal
Littenberg-Tobias, Joshua; Beheshti, Elham; Staudt, Carolyn – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2016
New technologies are increasingly giving science teachers the ability to access and customize science lessons. However, there is substantial debate in the literature about whether and under what conditions teacher customization benefit student learning. In this study, we examined teacher customization of inquiry-based science lessons from an…
Descriptors: Online Systems, Lesson Plans, Science Teachers, Science Instruction
Ryoo, Kihyun; Linn, Marcia C. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2014
We compared designs of guidance to support students while interacting with dynamic visualizations of complex scientific phenomena in inquiry instruction. Three hundred thirty-two 7th-grade students were randomly assigned to either a reading or a generating condition and completed a web-based inquiry unit focusing on energy concepts in…
Descriptors: Guidance, Visual Aids, Scientific Concepts, Inquiry
Wecker, Christof; Rachel, Alexander; Heran-Dörr, Eva; Waltner, Christine; Wiesner, Hartmut; Fischer, Frank – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2013
In the course of inquiry activities similar to those of real scientists, learners are supposed to develop knowledge both on the level of observable phenomena and on the level of explanatory theories. However, some theories involve theoretical entities (e.g., "Weiss domains") that cannot be observed directly and therefore may be hard to…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Theories, Inquiry, Science Instruction
Ryoo, Kihyun; Linn, Marcia C. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2012
Dynamic visualizations have the potential to make abstract scientific phenomena more accessible and visible to students, but they can also be confusing and difficult to comprehend. This research investigates how dynamic visualizations, compared to static illustrations, can support middle school students in developing an integrated understanding of…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Computer Uses in Education, Botany, Curriculum Design
Waight, Noemi; Abd-El-Khalick, Fouad – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2011
The Biology Workbench (BW) is a web-based tool enabling scientists to search a wide array of protein and nucleic acid sequence databases with integrated access to a variety of analysis and modeling tools. The present study examined the development of this scientific tool and its consequent adoption into the context of high school science teaching…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Genetics, Biology, Science Teachers