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Bamberger, Yael; Tal, Tali – Science Education, 2007
The study aims to characterize contextual learning during class visits to science and natural history museums. Based on previous studies, we assumed that "outdoor" learning is different from classroom-based learning, and free choice learning in the museums enhances the expression of learning in personal context. We studied about 750 students…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Science Curriculum, Museums, Educational Environment
Sadler, Troy D.; Zeidler, Dana L. – Science Education, 2005
This study focused on informal reasoning regarding socioscientific issues. It sought to explore how content knowledge influenced the negotiation and resolution of contentious and complex scenarios based on genetic engineering. Two hundred and sixty-nine students drawn from undergraduate natural science and nonnatural science courses completed a…
Descriptors: Natural Sciences, Engineering, Genetics, Thinking Skills

Camacho, Fernando Flores; Cazares, Leticia Gallegos – Science Education, 1998
Illustrates the construction of conceptual models on pressure and flotation using high school students' previous ideas on these concepts. Identifies three models and uses them to analyze students' ideas about physical phenomena and to recognize the inferential structure they use. Contains 28 references. (DDR)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Foreign Countries, High School Students, High Schools