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Yeo, Jennifer; Gilbert, John K. – International Journal of Science Education, 2014
Studies analyzing explanations that have been constructed by science students have found that they were generally weak and lack necessary features. The goal of this study was to establish the competencies that one needs to construct a scientific explanation. Scientific explanations can be looked at in three ways, in terms of their function, form…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, High School Students, Grade 12
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Jackson, Virginie – Current Issues in Education, 2016
This research was designed to investigate the effectiveness of using the think-aloud strategy to improve the reading comprehension in the content area of science. Based on state standards assessments, many early elementary grade students who were considered fluent readers struggled with evaluative science comprehension. In this quasi-experimental…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Reading Comprehension, Science Instruction, Content Area Reading
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Eskin, Handan; Ogan-Bekiroglu, Feral – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2009
The aim of this study was, first, to investigate any pattern between students' quantitative contribution to argumentation and their science understanding, and second, to analyze any relationship between students' qualitative contribution to argumentation and their scientific knowledge. Participants of the study were four tenth-grade students. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Persuasive Discourse, Grade 10, Physics