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Qianwen Song; Jiafeng Zhang; Hongsheng Wang; Zhan Zhang; Qing Zhou – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2024
The multiple benefits of virtual experiments applied to science education depend heavily on science teachers' intentions to use them. The inducing mechanism is a process that combines different conditions of multiple factors. From the perspective of overall configuration, this study used the fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Science Experiments
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Guo, Qing; Qiao, CuiLan; Ibrahim, Bashirah – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2022
Information and communication technology (ICT) is key to educational development. This study explores the mechanism influencing the use of ICT on students' science literacy. We utilized two-level hierarchical linear models and structural equation models to analyze data collected from the 2015 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) in…
Descriptors: Correlation, Scientific Literacy, Information Technology, Personal Autonomy
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Barak, Miri; Shahab, Carmella – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2023
The proliferation of fake news and pseudoscience requires a proactive educational approach to the cultivation of critical thinking (CT); yet, university lecturers and students alike appear to have insufficient guidance. Moreover, studies on CT overlook globalization trends such as student mobility, where international students are a significant…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Culturally Relevant Education, Inclusion, Technology Uses in Education
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Wang, Lei; Zhang, Ronghui; Clarke, David; Wang, Weizhen – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2014
Enactment of scientific inquiry in classroom has attracted a great attention of science educators around the world. In this study, we examined two competent teachers' (one Grade 9 chemistry teacher and one Grade 4 science teacher) enactment of scientific inquiry in selected teaching units to reveal the characteristics of enacted inquiry at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Case Studies, Inquiry
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Zheng, Changlong; Fu, Lihai; He, Peng – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2014
Classroom teaching is a main frontier of the implementation of new curricular ideas in China. The study reported in this article is concerned with the effectiveness of system of classroom teaching (SCT) in chemistry lessons. According to the Systems Science theory, we took a macroscopic view on the SCT, arguing that SCT is a hierarchy of system,…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Focus Groups, Chemistry, Factor Analysis
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Larson, Richard C.; Murray, M. Elizabeth – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2008
This paper uses case studies to focus on distance learning in developing countries as an enabler for economic development and poverty reduction. To provide perspective, we first review the history of telecottages, local technology-equipped facilities to foster community-based learning, which have evolved into "telecenters" or…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Poverty, Distance Education, Foreign Countries