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Direct linkYing-Chih Chen; Jongchan Park; Jamie G. Rapkiewcz – American Biology Teacher, 2024
Productive struggle is a process in which students expend effort to grapple with perplexing problems and make sense of something that is not immediately apparent and beyond their current level of understanding and capacity. The experience encourages students to reflect on and restructure their existing knowledge toward a new understanding of…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Biology, Science Education, Teaching Methods
He Zhou Breunig – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation examines students' social-emotional experience with knowledge building pedagogy from the lenses of grit and growth mindset. The goal of this dissertation is to understand how interest, perseverance of effort and growth mindset oriented feedback engage students social emotionally in knowledge building to sustain and deepen their…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Learner Engagement, Knowledge Level, Skill Development
Valls-Bautista, Cristina; Solé-LLussà, Anna; Casanoves, Marina – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2021
Purpose: Scientific inquiry is a leading methodology that promotes science process skills to acquire scientific knowledge. There is evidence that primary school teachers have difficulties introducing inquiry-based activities in their classrooms. Hence, adequate teacher instruction in inquiry methodology is important to apply inquiry-based…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Knowledge Level, Scientific Concepts, Science Process Skills
Doabler, Christian T.; Therrien, William J.; Longhi, Maria A.; Roberts, Greg; Hess, Katherine E.; Maddox, Steven A.; Uy, Jasmine; Lovette, Gail E.; Fall, Anna-Maria; Kimmel, Georgia L.; Benson, Sarah; VanUitert, Victoria J.; Emily Wilson, Sarah; Powell, Sarah R.; Sampson, Victor; Toprac, Paul – Remedial and Special Education, 2021
This study, which was reviewed through the Registered Report process, examined the initial efficacy of the Scientific Explorers program (Sci2) on second-grade students' science achievement. Sci2 is grounded in the growing body of empirical research on science instruction, embedding principles of explicit instruction within a guided inquiry-based…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Grade 2, Elementary School Science, Science Instruction
Download full textAndrikopoulou, Evdokia; Skoumios, Michael – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2021
The research that studies the improvement of elementary school students' science knowledge and the development of elementary students' abilities to use the scientific and engineering practices is restricted. The purpose of this research is to study the effects of an instructional intervention on the knowledge of the students of elementary school…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Knowledge Level, Science Process Skills, Science Instruction
Lederman, Judith S.; Lederman, Norman G.; Bartels, Selina L.; Jimanez, Juan P. – Contributions from Science Education Research, 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: Middle School Students, Science Instruction, Elementary School Science, Inquiry
Penn, M.; Ramnarain, U.; Kazeni, M.; Dhurumraj, T.; Mavuru, L.; Ramaila, S. – Education 3-13, 2021
This study investigated grade 4 learners' understandings about the Nature of Scientific Inquiry (NOSI) in primary schools within the South African context. A qualitative methodology was employed using a framework of five knowledge aspects about the NOSI in assessing learners' understandings about the ways scientists investigate the natural world.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Scientific Research
Nhlengethwa, Khanyisile Brenda; Govender, Nadaraj; Sibanda, Doras – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2020
Teachers' accurate understanding of Inquiry-Based Science Teaching (IBST) is crucial for the proper enactment of this pedagogical approach. In this research, a qualitative case study design was used to explore and interpret pre-service teachers' understanding of IBST at the conclusion of their three-year primary diploma at a university in…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Inquiry, Elementary School Teachers
Tao, Dan; Zhang, Jianwei – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2018
This study explores the reflective processes by which a grade 5 science community co-constructed shared inquiry structures to focus and guide its inquiry about human body systems over a school year supported by a collaborative online environment. The co-constructed structures included a list of collective wondering areas as the shared focus of…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Knowledge Level, Grade 5, Content Analysis
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
Tavares, Rita; Marques Vieira, Rui; Pedro, Luís – Education Sciences, 2021
This paper reports research work related to a wider study, aimed at developing a mobile app for Science Education in primary-school. Several studies reveal that Science Education can be improved by using technology, namely educational software. However, to promote a structured use of technology, innovative learning approaches must be designed for…
Descriptors: Science Education, Educational Technology, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
Penny, Jude; Forster, Colin – Primary Science, 2018
In this article, Jude Penny and Colin Forster explore what makes a good question and how this links with developing science capital. This article outlines research that was undertaken with primary student teachers at the University of Gloucestershire, focusing on the development of their ability to deploy an appropriate number of carefully chosen…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Science Instruction, Science Teachers, Student Teachers
Mandrikas, Achilleas; Stavrou, Dimitrios; Halkia, Krystallia; Skordoulis, Constantine – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2018
In this article, we present the results of an implementation of a teaching-learning sequence that offered the opportunity to increase preservice elementary teachers' engagement with authentic activities in meteorology. In particular, we describe the results of a teaching-learning sequence with regard to the representation of winds on weather maps…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Science, Meteorology
Fong, Cresencia; Slotta, James D. – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2018
We report on a multi-year design study of a technology environment called Common Knowledge (CK), designed to support learning communities in K-12 classrooms. Students represent their ideas in the form of notes, add their ideas to a collective knowledge base, and use this knowledge base as a resource for their subsequent inquiries. CK supports…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Blended Learning, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Knowledge Level
Lin, Feng; Chan, Carol K. K. – International Journal of Science Education, 2018
This study examined the role of computer-supported knowledge-building discourse and epistemic reflection in promoting elementary-school students' scientific epistemology and science learning. The participants were 39 Grade 5 students who were collectively pursuing ideas and inquiry for knowledge advance using Knowledge Forum (KF) while studying a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Science, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Technology
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