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Omarchevska, Yoana; Lachner, Andreas; Richter, Juliane; Scheiter, Katharina – Educational Psychology Review, 2022
Guided inquiry learning is an effective method for learning about scientific concepts. The present study investigated the effects of combining video modeling (VM) examples and metacognitive prompts on university students' (N = 127) scientific reasoning and self-regulation during inquiry learning. We compared the effects of watching VM examples…
Descriptors: Science Education, Inquiry, Scientific Concepts, Science Process Skills
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Petterson, Michael N.; Watts, Field M.; Snyder-White, Emma P.; Archer, Sabrina R.; Shultz, Ginger V.; Finkenstaedt-Quinn, Solaire A. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2020
An understanding of acid-base reactions is necessary for success in chemistry courses and relevant to careers outside of chemistry, yet research has demonstrated that students often struggle with learning acid-base reaction mechanisms in organic chemistry. One response to this challenge is the development of educational applications to support…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Problem Solving, Logical Thinking, Scientific Concepts
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Popova, Maia; Bretz, Stacey Lowery – Journal of Chemical Education, 2018
Thirty-six students enrolled in Organic Chemistry II participated in individual, semistructured, think-aloud interviews about the factors that contribute to the stability and reactivity of organic species in the context of unimolecular and bimolecular nucleophilic substitution and elimination reactions. The students were provided with the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Organic Chemistry, Semi Structured Interviews, Protocol Analysis
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Karim, Nafis I.; Maries, Alexandru; Singh, Chandralekha – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2018
The Conceptual Survey of Electricity and Magnetism (CSEM) has been used to assess student understanding of introductory concepts of electricity and magnetism because many of the items on the CSEM have strong distractor choices which correspond to students' alternate conceptions. Instruction is unlikely to be effective if instructors do not know…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Teaching Assistants, Scientific Concepts, Student Surveys
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Cullipher, Steven; Sevian, Hannah – Journal of Chemical Education, 2015
Students often face difficulties when presented with chemical structures and asked to relate them to properties of those substances. Learning to relate structures to properties, both in predicting properties based on chemical structures and interpreting properties to infer structure, is pivotal in students' education in chemistry. This troublesome…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Undergraduate Study, College Science, Chemistry
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Miller-Young, Janice E. – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2013
The premise of student-centered teaching is to respond to the ways in which students engage with the context and content of their learning, and therefore the purpose of this study was to find out how students visualize three-dimensional statics problems from two-dimensional diagrams early in a first-year engineering course. Think-alouds were…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, College Students, Protocol Analysis, Visualization
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Rushton, Gregory T.; Hardy, Rebecca C.; Gwaltney, Kevin P.; Lewis, Scott E. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2008
This study describes the conceptual understanding for a series of fundamental organic concepts by fourth year chemistry students from a midsize, southeastern, state university. Student volunteers (n = 19) participated in semi-structured interviews using a think aloud protocol. The interview questions were eleven multiple choice questions selected…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Interviews, Science Instruction, College Science
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Zeineddin, Ava; Abd-El-Khalick, Fouad – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2008
This study examined the impact of two epistemic commitments on the quality of college students' scientific reasoning in the domain of hydrostatics. These were the commitment to the consistency of theory with prior knowledge and commitment to the consistency of theory with evidence. Participants were 12 sophomore science majors enrolled in a large…
Descriptors: College Students, Protocol Analysis, Prior Learning, Science Process Skills
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Klein, Perry D.; Piacente-Cimini, Sabrina; Williams, Laura A. – Learning and Instruction, 2007
This study examines the role of writing in learning scientific principles through analogy. Seventy-two university students observed two demonstrations concerning one of three topics: buoyant force of a fluid, projectile motion or forces internal to a system. Each composed an analogy on one of the topics through speaking-only, writing-only, or…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Motion, Memory, Misconceptions
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Dancy, Melissa H.; Beichner, Robert – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2006
This study investigates the effect of computer animation on assessment and the conditions under which animation may improve or hinder assessment of conceptual understanding in physics. An instrument was developed by replacing static pictures and descriptions of motion with computer animations on the Force Concept Inventory, a commonly used pencil…
Descriptors: Animation, Computer Graphics, Protocol Analysis, Physics