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Peer reviewedPrain, Vaughan; Hand, Brian – Science Education, 1999
Discusses students' perceptions of using writing as a component of their science learning. Results, collected over four years, are organized to include students' perceptions of writing in science, learning, ownership, purpose, and science. These results are then discussed in terms of students' developing metacognition and epistemologies of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Epistemology, Foreign Countries
Direct linkWu, Ying-Tien; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Science Education, 2005
The main purpose of this study was to explore the effects of long-term constructivist-oriented science instruction on elementary school students' process of constructing cognitive structures. Furthermore, such effects on different science achievers were also investigated. The subjects of this study were 69 fifth graders in Taiwan, while they were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Low Achievement, High Achievement, Grade 5
