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Direct linkAglaia Nikolopoulou; Sofia Fili; Magdalini Founta; Ioannis Starakis – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2024
The present research investigates the perceptions of kindergarten students, and pre-service teachers from the Early Childhood Education Department at the University of Athens, concerning the frequency of the Moon's appearance in the night sky. ?he sample consisted of 15 people from each population group. Semi-structured interviews were conducted…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Young Children, Kindergarten, Student Attitudes
Download full textNaeun Lee; Ilho Yang; Seongun Kim – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2024
Many students have difficulty understanding the concept of lunar phase changes (LPCs) due to spatial ability problems such as perspective-taking (PT) and mental rotation (MR). Therefore, this study aimed to compare brain activity during PT and MR tasks while performing the LPC task to determine the involvement of PT and MR. This study measured…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Males, Spatial Ability
D. K. Keblbeck; K. Piatek-Jimenez; C. Medina Medina – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Historically, physics has been a predominantly male field, with previous literature showing that there is little diversity among U.S. physics students at the undergraduate and graduate levels or among physicists within the work force. Recent research indicates that the lack of diversity in physics is partially due to an unwelcoming climate within…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Physics, Majors (Students), Disproportionate Representation
Sagdic, Ali; Sahin, Elvan – Journal of Education in Science, Environment and Health, 2023
Microteaching is a significant way to prepare pre-service teachers to overcome specific challenges in a natural classroom environment. It is widely accepted that pre-service science teachers gain pedagogical benefits from microteaching activities. Furthermore, microteaching enhances the conceptual understanding of the presenter on the related…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Science Teachers, Scientific Concepts
Briley L. Lewis; Abygail R. Waggoner; Emma Clarke; Alison L. Crisp; Mark Dodici; Graham M. Doskoch; Michael M. Foley; Ryan Golant; Skylar Grayson; Sahil Hegde; Nathalie Korhonen Cuestas; Charles J. Law; R. R. Lefever; Ishan Mishra; Mark Popinchalk; Sabina Sagynbayeva; Samantha L. Wong; Wei Yan; Kaitlyn L. Ingraham Dixie; K. Supriya – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
Undergraduate physics and astronomy students are expected to engage with scientific literature as they begin their research careers, yet reading comprehension skills are rarely explicitly taught in major courses. We seek to determine the efficacy of a reading assignment designed to improve undergraduate astronomy (or related) majors' perceived…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Science, Science Process Skills, Astronomy
White, Douglas W. – Physics Teacher, 2022
Laboratory astrophysics and astrochemistry are emerging fields highlighting the importance of laboratory simulations and experiments to benefit remote observations. In particular, ice mixtures found in the outer solar system may offer insight into the early evolution of organic molecules. H[subscript 2]O-ice mixtures containing other species such…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry, Laboratories
Sunil Dehipawala; Todd Holden; Tak Cheung – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2024
Hurricane and galaxy tidal effect are routine teaching topics in community college first year science courses, but there is a knowledge gap without a quantitative discussion of the physics of non-inertia frame. A survey of YouTube videos posted by Education Centers and professors showed that the hand-waving conceptual explanation is the most…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Engineering Education, College Freshmen, Astronomy
Linghong Li; Wayne F. Patton – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2025
The evolving landscape of higher education demands integrating advanced technologies to foster engaging and inclusive learning environments. This paper examines the practical integration of Stellarium, a virtual planetarium software, and ChatGPT, an AI conversational agent, in an asynchronous online undergraduate astronomy course. Stellarium…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Astronomy, Science Education, Artificial Intelligence
Zachary Richards – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation is composed of three studies linking general education astronomy to student performance, course-taking, graduation, and identity. The first study examined demographic and academic predictors of astronomy performance among a cohort of N=1,909 community college students enrolled in astronomy courses in a large suburban community…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Community College Students, Astronomy, STEM Education
Skylar Grayson; Molly N. Simon; Sanlyn Buxner; Matthew Wenger; Chris Impey – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) experienced a resurgence in popularity due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this work, we studied participants in an astrobiology MOOC offered on Coursera since April 2019. Using a modified version of the Science Motivation Questionnaire II, we examined the primary motivational factors of the participants, how those…
Descriptors: MOOCs, Science Education, Undergraduate Students, Student Characteristics
Ezberci-Çevik, Ebru; Kurnaz, Mehmet Altan – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Technology, 2022
In this study, it is aimed to reveal the models related to star subject as one of the concepts of astronomy of prospective science teachers before and after the current instruction through model analysis. This modeling situation is expressed as a Grounded Mental Model (GMM), since there will be a mental modeling that is revealed according to what…
Descriptors: Schemata (Cognition), Astronomy, Science Teachers, Preservice Teachers
Pinochet, Jorge – Physics Education, 2022
The tidal forces generated by a black hole can be so powerful that they cause unlimited stretching, known as spaghettification. A detailed analysis of this phenomenon requires the use of Einstein's theory of general relativity. The aim of this paper is to offer an up-to-date and accessible analysis of spaghettification, in which the complex…
Descriptors: Robotics, Astronomy, Scientific Concepts, Oceanography
Yang-Hsin Fan; Tzung-Jin Lin – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2025
Extant literature has preliminarily confirmed the potential benefits of holographic projections for educational purposes. Yet, students' experiences of learning by holographic projection have rarely been addressed. The main purpose of this study was therefore to explore students' conceptions of and approaches to learning by holographic projection.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Astronomy, Lunar Research
Faust, Carl; Ashman, Seth – Physics Teacher, 2021
The study of the electromagnetic spectrum, how light interacts with matter, and optical instruments such as lenses, mirrors, and gratings are important concepts in the Advanced Placement (AP) physics and introductory undergraduate physics and astronomy courses. The production, control, and analysis of light helps scientists to learn about the…
Descriptors: Science Equipment, Physics, Astronomy, Science Instruction
Lockard, Joe; Goggin, Peter – Science & Education, 2023
The paper describes an upper-division university course in Mars literature taught online since Fall 2013. The course readings comprise six novels relating to Mars. Authors include H.G. Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Ray Bradbury, Phillip K. Dick, Greg Bear, and Kim Stanley Robinson. After an introduction, sections of the paper discuss course…
Descriptors: College Science, Astronomy, Space Sciences, Science Instruction
