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Direct linkJames Deehan; Amy MacDonald; Christopher Morris – Studies in Science Education, 2024
Effective science education is crucial for developing a scientifically literate citizenry, and for many, foundational primary science education experiences play a significant role in defining their long-term science trajectories. However, primary science education has been limited by a dissonance between the poor science trajectories for…
Descriptors: Intervention, Science Education, Science Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness
Download full textKurniahtunnisa; Brian Ricard Wola; Fransiska Harahap; Widya Anjelia Tumewu; Zusje Wiesje Merry Warouw – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2024
Science process skills (SPS) are considered essential for scientific and technological eras nowadays. This study aims to provide information on how SPS in Indonesia have been researched from 2016 to 2022, including the number of studies conducted, research designs used, frequently addressed science topics, interventions, assessment instruments…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Process Skills, Educational Research, Science Education
Jung, Myoungwhon; Conderman, Greg; Jackson, Christine – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2022
To bolster science instruction in early childhood and elementary classrooms, teachers can implement practices that focus on big ideas, engage students in science processes, and differentiate instruction.
Descriptors: Science Education, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Science Instruction
Rusdiyana Rusdiyana; Dyah Rini Indriyanti; Hartono Hartono; Wiwi Isnaeni – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2024
The teacher has an important role in making pupils skilled in inquiry, viz guiding them to carry out inquiry steps in science learning. However, there are obstacles to applying online learning at primary school level, especially inquiry-based science. The purpose of this research is to analyse the application of inquiry in science learning,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Inquiry, Online Courses
Safrizal, Safrizal; Sudarmono; Yulia, Resti – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2022
This research aimed to describe the development of scientific literacy of students in Indonesia at the Adiwiyata school. The design of this research was qualitative. The data were gathered through observation, an interview and documentation. The subjects were selected through snowball sampling. Data analysis was carried out by referring to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scientific Literacy, Science Education, Teaching Methods
Suyatman; Saputro, Sulistyo; Sunarno, Widha; Sukarmin – European Journal of Educational Research, 2021
This study aimed to analyze the Research-Based Learning (RBL) model implementation in the natural sciences in improving students' analytical thinking skills. This study employed a mixed-method with a sequential exploratory design. Data collection began with qualitative data and then continued with quantitative data. Qualitative data collection…
Descriptors: Energy, Concept Formation, Evaluative Thinking, Thinking Skills
Heather Killen; Merijke Coenraad; Virginia Byrne; Lautaro Cabrera; Kelly Mills; Diane Jass Ketelhut; Jandelyn D. Plane – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2023
Computational thinking (CT) is playing an increasingly relevant role within disciplinary teaching in elementary school, particularly in science. However, many teachers are unfamiliar with CT, either because their education occurred before the popularization of CT or because CT instruction was not included in their pre-service coursework. For these…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Science Instruction, Faculty Development
Gai, Lichun; Li, Yanmei; Zheng, Changlong; Wei, Bing; Jiang, Zhimeng; Lederman, Judith S. – International Journal of Science Education, 2022
While helping students develop informed views about nature of scientific inquiry (VNOSI) has been emphasised in science education, little is known regarding students' current VNOSI at a certain grade level and whether there was evidence of higher attainment of VNOSI in students in higher grades as compared to lower grades? The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Scientific Principles, Scientific Attitudes, Inquiry
John-Paul Riordan; Lynn Revell; Bob Bowie; Mary Woolley; Sabina Hulbert; Caroline Thomas – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2023
Background: During school lessons participants can face challenging pedagogical problems such as when science and religion topics interact. Potential types of pedagogical problem and what participants can do in response are unclear. Research designs exploring pedagogical problem solving should investigate teachers' thinking processes and include…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Problem Solving, Video Technology, Science Education
Erenler, Sumeyye; Cetin, Pinar Seda – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2019
Recent reform efforts in science education have brought scientific literacy to researchers' attention. Researchers have been searching for new instructional models to engage students' variety of scientific practices to fulfil the requirements of scientific literacy. Argument Driven Inquiry (ADI) is a novel instructional model that integrates the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Metacognition, Student Attitudes, Inquiry
Ben Hammou, Salah; Kesbi, Abdelaziz – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
The present study explored a small-scale English medium instruction (EMI) initiative in Moroccan secondary schools, which is part of a top-down multilingual policy based on teaching science subjects through foreign languages, namely French, English, and Spanish. 18 secondary EMI teachers of math, physics and life and earth sciences were…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, College Faculty, Science Instruction
Diego Corrochano; Daniel Zuazagoitia; Marcia Eugenio-Gozalbo; Lidón Monferrer; Inés Ortega-Cubero; Aritz Ruiz-González; Lourdes Aragón – Journal of Biological Education, 2025
Pre-service teachers' mental models of the nature of soil were investigated in a sample of 181 students from four different Spanish universities, using three different methodological approaches: a phenomenographic analysis of definitions, a categorisation of labelled-drawings and the analysis of answers to a questionnaire consisting of both open-…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Soil Science
Peter J. Rich; Scott Bartholomew; David Daniel; Kenzie Dinsmoor; Meagan Nielsen; Connor Reynolds; Meg Swanson; Ellyse Winward; Jessica Yauney – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2024
In this study, we attempted to curate a list of tools whose primary intent is to enable and teach children to code. From this list, we developed a framework for the classification of coding tools and reviewed current research to determine how tools are used to teach coding in elementary education. The catalog grew to over 300 specific tools…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Teaching Methods, Coding, Thinking Skills
Lederman, Judith; Lederman, Norman; Bartels, Selina; Jimenez, Juan; Akubo, Mark; Aly, Shereen; Bao, Chengcheng; Blanquet, Estelle; Blonder, Ron; Bologna Soares de Andrade, Mariana; Buntting, Catherine; Cakir, Mustafa; EL-Deghaidy, Heba; ElZorkani, Ahmed; Gaigher, Estelle; Guo, Shuchen; Hakanen, Arvi; Hamed Al-Lal, Soraya; Han-Tosunoglu, Cigdem; Hattingh, Annemarie; Hume, Anne; Irez, Serhat; Kay, Gillian; Kivilcan Dogan, Ozgur; Kremer, Kerstin; Kuo, Pi-Chu; Lavonen, Jari; Lin, Shu-Fen; Liu, Cheng; Liu, Enshan; Liu, Shiang-Yao; Lv, Bin; Mamlok-Naaman, Rachel; McDonald, Christine; Neumann, Irene; Pan, Yaozhen; Picholle, Eric; Rivero García, Ana; Rundgren, Carl-Johan; Santibáñez-Gómez, David; Saunders, Kathy; Schwartz, Renee; Voitle, Frauke; von Gyllenpalm, Jakob; Wei, Fangbing; Wishart, Jocelyn; Wu, Zhifeng; Xiao, Huang; Yalaki, Yalcin; Zhou, Qiaoxue – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2019
Although understandings of scientific inquiry (as opposed to conducting inquiry) are included in science education reform documents around the world, little is known about what students have learned about inquiry during their elementary school years. This is partially due to the lack of any assessment instrument to measure understandings about…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Middle School Students, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Gormley, Katie; Birdsall, Sally; France, Bev – set: Research Information for Teachers, 2019
Socio-scientific issues (SSIs) are real-life problems which have a scientific basis yet require the consideration of social concerns. Using SSIs has been advocated as an approach to engage secondary-school students with science and this study aimed to explore the potential of such an approach in the primary-school classroom. The experiences and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Social Problems, Teaching Methods
