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Uncovering Student Strategies for Solving Scientific Inquiry Tasks: Insights from Student Process Data in PISA
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Nani Teig – Research in Science Education, 2024
The advancement of technology has led to a growing interest in assessing scientific inquiry within digital platforms. This shift towards dynamic and interactive inquiry assessments enables researchers to investigate not only the accuracy of student responses ("product data") but also their steps and actions leading to those responses…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Problem Solving, Science Process Skills, Inquiry
Teachers' Integration of Scientific and Engineering Practices in Primary Classrooms
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Merritt, Eileen G.; Chiu, Jennie; Peters-Burton, Erin; Bell, Randy – Research in Science Education, 2018
The Next-Generation Science Standards (NGSS) challenge primary teachers and students to work and think like scientists and engineers as they strive to understand complex concepts. Teachers and teacher educators can leverage what is already known about inquiry teaching as they plan instruction to help students meet the new standards. This…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Inquiry, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students
Why Inquiry? Primary Teachers' Objectives in Choosing Inquiry- and Context-Based Instructional Strategies to Stimulate Students' Science Learning
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Walan, Susanne; Nilsson, Pernilla; Ewen, Birgitta – Research in Science Education, 2017
Studies have shown that there is a need for pedagogical content knowledge among science teachers. This study investigates two primary teachers and their objectives in choosing inquiry- and context-based instructional strategies as well as the relation between the choice of instructional strategies and the teachers' knowledge about of students'…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Science Education, Science Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Data Generation in the Discovery Sciences--Learning from the Practices in an Advanced Research Laboratory
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Roth, Wolff-Michael – Research in Science Education, 2013
General scientific literacy includes understanding the grounds on which scientific claims are based. The measurements scientists make and the data that they produce from them generally constitute these grounds. However, the nature of data generation has received relatively little attention from those interested in teaching science through inquiry.…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Ethnography, Decision Making Skills, Data
The Role of Scientist Mentors on Teachers' Perceptions of the Community of Science during a Summer Research Experience
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Hughes, Roxanne; Molyneaux, Kristen; Dixon, Pat – Research in Science Education, 2012
This study focuses on the mentor relationships between science teachers and their scientist mentors in a summer Research Experience for Teachers program at a United States national laboratory facility. Using mixed methods, the authors surveyed and interviewed (semi-structured) the eleven participating teachers before and after the program. The…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Mentors, Ownership, Science Teachers
Exploring the Development of Fifth Graders' Practical Epistemologies and Explanation Skills in Inquiry-Based Learning Classrooms
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Wu, Hsin-Kai; Wu, Chia-Lien – Research in Science Education, 2011
The purposes of this study are to explore fifth graders' epistemological views regarding their own experiences of constructing scientific knowledge through inquiry activities (i.e., practical epistemologies) and to investigate possible interactions between students' practical epistemologies and their inquiry skills to construct scientific…
Descriptors: Evidence, Video Technology, Inquiry, Active Learning