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Adler, Jill – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2015
Linked research and development forms the central pillar of the 5-year Wits Maths Connect Secondary Project in South Africa. Our empirical data emphasised the need for teaching that mediates towards mathematics viewed as a network of scientific concepts, and the development of the notion of 'mathematical discourse in instruction' (MDI), as an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Faculty Development, Scientific Concepts
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Jungwirth, E. – Australian Science Teachers Journal, 1971
Descriptors: Biology, Classification, Educational Research, Evaluation
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Hart, Earl Paul; Toews, William – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1980
Explores the use of free sort methodology to compare BSCS student and teacher understanding of the BSCS conceptual framework. Results support the idea that teachers who have better understanding of the BSCS conceptual framework, as shown by their sort patterns, may impart this understanding more effectively to students. (CS)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Science Course Improvement Projects, Science Education, Scientific Concepts
Battaglini, Dennis Wood – 1971
Reported is a study to evaluate the Science Curriculum Improvement Study (SCIS) program at the fourth-grade level, in particular the unit, "Relativity." To avoid the problems of a written test, an alternative test involving examples of relative position and motion was developed. This 30-item planetarium test was used as a pretest and…
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research, Elementary School Science
Staver, John R. – UNESCO International Bureau of Education, 2007
Education in science serves three purposes. First, it prepares students to study science at higher levels of education. Second, it prepares students to enter the workforce, pursue occupations, and take up careers. Third, it prepares them to become more scientifically literate citizens. The relative priority and alignment of these three purposes…
Descriptors: Scientific Literacy, Educational Practices, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Billings, Gilbert – School Science and Mathematics, 1979
Investigates the effects upon concept acquisition of giving second-grade children the verbal labels of science concepts with which they have had concrete experience in a classroom setting using the interaction and evidence of interaction concepts from the Science Curriculum Improvement Study (SCIS). (HM)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science
Champagne, Audrey B.; And Others – 1978
The research reported in this paper concerns the design of instructional materials that represent the content structure of a science discipline and the development of methods of probing and representing the knowledge structure in a student's memory. The science discipline selected for the study was geology. Specifically, the conceptual structures…
Descriptors: Classification, Educational Research, Geology, Grade 8
Haan, Norma – 1968
This report presents the results of an investigation of the Science Curriculum Improvement Study (SCIS) program and the effects of the Materials Objects unit on first-grade students and teachers. The contents of the report include purposes and limitations of the study, discussion of the instruments, observers, reliability of the Q sort, the…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Cognitive Development, Educational Research, Elementary Education
Russell, Terence J. – Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast Asia, 1979
Describes the three phases of the development of the pilot project on science concepts learning which was designed to be implemented nationally by the participating countries of the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO). (HM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Conceptual Schemes, Curriculum Development, Educational Research
Leonard, Mary J. – Online Submission, 2004
In recent years educators and educational researchers in the U.S. have begun to introduce engineering design activities in secondary science classrooms for the purpose of scaffolding science learning as well as supporting such general problem-solving skills as decision making and working in teams. However, such curricula risk perpetuating a…
Descriptors: Design, Engineering, Educational Research, Epistemology