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Peter F. Lang – Journal of Chemical Education, 2025
The concepts of electronegativity and classical electronegativity scales are briefly described. Electronegativity scales have practical quantitative applications, and this work suggests activities which can assist students select the scales for use in chemistry applications. It provided examples of the use of an appropriate electronegativity…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation
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Hyojoon Kim; Sangwoo Ha – Research in Science Education, 2025
This study explores the ontological perspective in analyzing students' problem-solving related to mechanical energy conservation. The research involves 18 high school students whose explanations were qualitatively analyzed using an extended ontological framework. Initially, students predominantly employed matter-based predicates and…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Energy Conservation, High School Students, Thinking Skills
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Paolo Bussotti – International Baltic Symposium on Science and Technology Education, 2025
The problem here dealt with concerns physics education, and specifically the concept of force. The idea behind this research is that a historical approach to the teaching of such a notion is of great help for the students to fully understand the meaning of this basic physical magnitude. For, most of scientific concepts can be better grasped by the…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation
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Marina Martínez-Carmona; G. Enrique Ayuso Fernández; Manuel Fernández-Díaz; Francisco Serrano-García; Antonia Plaza Griñán – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2025
Knowledge about genetics is essential to build a society capable of participating in socioscientific and ethical debates. However, this subject remains difficult for students, making it necessary to develop new educational strategies, such as gamification. Thus, two main objectives are established in this work: (a) to design and evaluate…
Descriptors: Genetics, Science Instruction, Gamification, Game Based Learning
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Tufan Inaltekin; Tolga Saka – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2025
In science, one of the most crucial representations for constructing meaning about physical events is graphs. The first graph students encounter in science class is the constant velocity motion graph. Therefore, examining students' understanding of structuring and interpreting these graphs for the relationship between distance, time, and velocity…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Graphs, Motion, Scientific Concepts
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Annisafira Nanda Rosa; Wolly Candramila; Eko Sri Wahyuni – Journal of Biological Education Indonesia (Jurnal Pendidikan Biologi Indonesia), 2025
Textbooks are essential learning resources for both teachers and students, but they often contain misconceptions that can affect students' understanding of key concepts, particularly in biology. Misconceptions can arise from inaccurate or incomplete information, and they may lead to incorrect conceptual understanding. The clarity and accuracy of…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Biology, Science Instruction, Textbooks
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Lisa Giachini; Isabelle Cabot – Journal of Education and Learning, 2025
This study examines the effects of the pedagogical use of context-rich problems on motivation and learning, as compared to traditional problems, in mechanical physics courses at the college level. The results indicate that the treatment has appreciable outcomes on conceptual learning gain, on the perception of task value and on a perceived sense…
Descriptors: Mechanics (Physics), Science Instruction, Student Motivation, Problem Solving
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Hannah K. Parker; Beth Zizzamia; Julie A. Pollock – Journal of Chemical Education, 2025
In a typical undergraduate biochemistry course, two main educational objectives include (1) understanding and applying how genetic mutations can influence protein structure and function, and (2) examining metabolic pathways of biomolecules to study cellular storage and fuel. Many times, these topics can seem disparate to students; therefore, we…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Science, Science Instruction, Biochemistry
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Feyza Turk; Nagihan Yildirim – Journal of Theoretical Educational Science, 2025
This study used a case study, one of the qualitative research methods, with the aim of developing guidance materials based on the argumentation-based science learning (ABSL) approach for concepts in the 6th grade unit "Sound and Its Properties" and to examine students' argumentation levels and conceptual understanding. The activity…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Science Instruction, Grade 6, Scientific Concepts
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Nur Farha Shaafi; Mohammad Mubarrak Mohd Yusof; Ellianawati Ellianawati; Bambang Subali; Muhammad Haziq Hazim Raji’e – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2025
This study examines prevalent misconceptions among students regarding the fundamental concepts of acids and bases, which often arise during the learning process. This study aims to pinpoint misconceptions held by preservice science teachers in the realm of acids and bases; 117 university students from diverse educational backgrounds, enrolled in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Science Education
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Christof Keebaugh; Emily Marshman; Chandralekha Singh – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
We discuss how research on student difficulties was used as a guide to develop, validate, and evaluate a Quantum Interactive Learning Tutorial (QuILT) to help students learn how to determine the completely symmetric bosonic or completely antisymmetric fermionic wave function and be able to compare and contrast them from the case when the particles…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Quantum Mechanics
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Pedro J. Sánchez Gómez; Mauricio Suárez – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2025
We present an approach to the question of the educational relations between chemistry and physics based on the one hand, on an inferentialist account of scientific representation (Suárez M., (2024), "Inference and Representation. A Study in Modelling Science," Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press). On the other, we have…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Undergraduate Students, Science Instruction, Chemistry
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Tamar Fuhrmann; Leah Rosenbaum; Aditi Wagh; Adelmo Eloy; Jacob Wolf; Paulo Blikstein; Michelle Wilkerson – Science Education, 2025
When learning about scientific phenomena, students are expected to "mechanistically" explain how underlying interactions produce the observable phenomenon and "conceptually" connect the observed phenomenon to canonical scientific knowledge. This paper investigates how the integration of the complementary processes of designing…
Descriptors: Mechanics (Physics), Thinking Skills, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation
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Catalin Koro Arvidsson – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2025
This study investigates if a force-based teaching approach, based on quantum mechanical principles and developed in a lesson study, would enhance the understanding of chemical bonding among upper secondary school students. The teaching approach was based on research on the teaching and learning of chemical bonding. The study included first-year…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Secondary School Students, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Aloys Iyamuremye; Innocent Twagilimana; Francois Niyongabo Niyonzima – Discover Education, 2025
Organic chemistry education serves as a cornerstone in various scientific disciplines, yet its instruction is often dominated by rote memorization over deep conceptual understanding, resulting in limited conceptual understanding and disengagement among students. This aimed at investigating the impact of integrating a web-based discussion tools on…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Computer Assisted Instruction, Science Instruction, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
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