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Direct linkPhillips, Anna McLean; Watkins, Jessica; Hammer, David – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2018
The Next Generation Science Standards states that "science begins with a question." (NGSS Lead States [2013] "Next generation science standards: For states, by states". Washington, DC: National Academies Press). Yet scientific inquiry among students and scientists alike often begins without a clear question. In this article, we…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Science Instruction, Elementary School Science, Teaching Methods
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
Samarapungavan, Ala; Bryan, Lynn; Wills, Jamison – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2017
In this paper, we present a study of second graders' learning about the nature of matter in the context of content-rich, model-based inquiry instruction. The goal of instruction was to help students learn to use simple particle models to explain states of matter and phase changes. We examined changes in students' ideas about matter, the coherence…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Scientific Concepts, Inquiry
Examining Evidence Construction as the Transformation of the Material World into Community Knowledge
Manz, Eve – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2016
Recent consensus documents in science education (e.g., the Next Generation Science Standards) emphasize helping students develop facility with constructing and critiquing both claims and the evidence that supports them. While students typically view evidence as necessary for supporting scientific claims, they tend to "objectify"…
Descriptors: Science Education, Evidence, Inquiry, Grade 3
Slavin, Robert E.; Lake, Cynthia; Hanley, Pam; Thurston, Allen – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2014
This article presents a systematic review of research on the achievement outcomes of all types of approaches to teaching science in elementary schools. Study inclusion criteria included use of randomized or matched control groups, a study duration of at least 4 weeks, and use of achievement measures independent of the experimental treatment. A…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Science Programs, Program Evaluation, Inquiry
Maskiewicz, April C.; Winters, Victoria A. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2012
We set out to understand how different instantiations of inquiry emerged in two different years of one elementary teacher's classroom. Longitudinal observations from Mrs. Charles' 5th grade science classroom forced us to carefully and deliberately consider who exactly was responsible for the change in the class activities and norms. We provide…
Descriptors: Science Education, Elementary School Science, Grade 5, Class Activities
Waight, Noemi; Abd-El-Khalick, Fouad – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2007
This study investigated the impact of the use of computer technology on the enactment of "inquiry" in a sixth grade science classroom. Participants were 42 students (38% female) enrolled in two sections of the classroom and taught by a technology-enthusiast instructor. Data were collected over the course of 4 months during which several "inquiry"…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Group Activities, Computers, Computer Uses in Education
Peer reviewedMolitor, Loretta L.; George, Kenneth D. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1976
Evaluated is a Science Process Skills test to determine instrument reliability and validity for measuring science inquiry skills of inference and verification. Students involved were fourth, fifth, and sixth graders. Results indicate the instrument is valid, but reliability is low, particulary for the inference subtest. (SL)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary School Science, Evaluation, Inquiry
Peer reviewedWilson, John T.; Koran, John J. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1976
Forty-five children, ages nine through eleven, were divided into control group and experimental groups that read or wrote hunches concerning a discrepant event involving sliding blocks. Those who generated hunches were shown to learn more in subsequent inquiry behaviors designed to explain the discrepant event. (MLH)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Inquiry
Peer reviewedYore, Larry D. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1984
Explored Morine and Morine's ("Discovery: A Challenge to Teachers") assumptions regarding age and cognitive development of students (N=174) successfully utilizing structured inductive and semi-deductive inquiry strategies. One finding noted is that age has made a significant difference on achievement for both strategies. Implications for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Cognitive Development, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedJohnson, Roger T. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1976
Concluded that sixth-graders in inquiry-oriented science classes perceived cooperation between students; those in textbook-oriented classes perceived competition between students. (MLH)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science
Peer reviewedOakley, Wayne F.; Crocker, Robert K. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1980
Addresses the significance of teacher role in the control of student behavior in laboratory groups. Elementary school science classes were observed and videotaped. Changes in interaction setting (teacher-class, pupil-pupil, and intervention) or "treatments" were noted for each class. Conclusions are made concerning teacher interventions…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Group Behavior
Peer reviewedRowe, Mary Budd – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1974
Presents some considerations about the variable of "wait time," a pause after a teacher question so that students can think or a pause after a student statement. (PEB)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Educational Research, Elementary School Science, Inquiry
Peer reviewedTjosvold, Dean; And Others – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1977
Investigates the consequences of inquiry and didactic teaching when students either cooperate or compete with each other on (a) students' acceptance of the teaching method, (b) their approval of the teacher, (c) their experience of peer support, and (d) their beliefs that they have learned. Eighty fourth and fifth grade students were randomly…
Descriptors: Achievement, Attitudes, Didacticism, Educational Research
Peer reviewedNelson, Miles A.; Abraham, Eugene C. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1973
Describes the development and testing of an instrument for use at the eighth grade level to measure four science processes: observation, inference, verification, and classification. Indicates that the two forms of the instrument are average in reliability and high in factor validity. (CC)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Science, Evaluation, Inquiry
