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Huang, Xiao; Lederman, Norman G.; Cai, Chaojing – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2017
The present study explores ways to enhance students' question-asking ability (i.e., the ability to ask critical questions), which is the premise of scientific inquiry and a precondition for effective science teaching. A survey of junior high school students in Zhejiang province in China showed that students' questioning behavior was not well…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Junior High School Students, Questioning Techniques, Student Improvement
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Morin, Olivier; Simonneaux, Laurence; Tytler, Russell – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2017
Scientific expertise and outcomes often give rise to controversy. An educational response that equips students to take part in socioscientific discussions is the teaching of Socially Acute Questions (SAQs). Students engaging with SAQs need to engage with socio scientific reasoning, which involves reasoning with evidence from a variety of fields…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Accuracy, Social Influences, College Students
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Hasson, Eilat; Yarden, Anat – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2012
Inquiry is essentially a process in which research questions are asked and an attempt is made to find the answers. However, the formulation of operational research questions of the sort used in authentic scientific inquiry is not a trivial task. Here, we set out to explore the possible influence of separating the research question from the…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Discovery Learning, Research Methodology, Science Laboratories
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Winberg, T. Mikael; Berg, C. Anders R. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2007
To enhance the learning outcomes achieved by students, learners undertook a computer-simulated activity based on an acid-base titration prior to a university-level chemistry laboratory activity. Students were categorized with respect to their attitudes toward learning. During the laboratory exercise, questions that students asked their assistant…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Laboratories, Chemistry, Science Laboratories
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Costa, Jorge; Caldeira, Helena; Gallastegui, Juan R.; Otero, Jose – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2000
Presents the results of a study on questions invoked to correct declarative knowledge deficits while readers processed science texts explaining natural phenomena. Focuses on finding out what kind of questions are asked by students who read these texts and how task demand influences the quantity and quality of formulated questions. (Contains 42…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Foreign Countries, High Schools, Junior High Schools
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Dori, Yehudit J.; Herscovitz, Orit – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1999
Presents research on the scientific question-posing capabilities of 10th-grade students (n=127) who were studying air quality in a cooperative way using the jigsaw method. Finds that the difference between students at high and low academic levels to the extent of increase in both number and complexity of posed questions was significant. Contains…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Cooperative Learning, Educational Assessment, Environmental Education