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Direct linkFragkiadaki, Glykeria; Fleer, Marilyn; Rai, Prabhat – Research in Science Education, 2023
A substantial number of empirical studies in the field of Early Childhood Science Education have explored science concept formation in early childhood educational settings. Most of these studies focus on the process of science concept formation during a teaching intervention or a school year period. However, less is known about how children form…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Toddlers, Young Children
Aldridge, Jill M.; Rowntree, Kate – Research in Science Education, 2022
The global lack of student motivation towards learning science and gender imbalance in STEM careers provided the impetus for this study, which had two key aims: (1) to examine the influence of female students' perceptions of the psychosocial learning environment on their motivation towards and self-regulation in science learning,; and (2) to…
Descriptors: Correlation, Educational Environment, Student Attitudes, Learning Motivation
Kuo, Yen-Ruey; Tuan, Hsiao-Lin; Chin, Chi-Chin – Research in Science Education, 2020
This study aims to examine the influence of inquiry-based instruction on eighth-grade male and female students' motivation and engagement in science learning in two public junior high schools in central Taiwan. Mixed-methods methodology was adopted with 60 students (32 males and 28 females) in the experimental group and 56 students (28 males and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inquiry, Teaching Methods, Gender Differences
Peer reviewedTiberghien, Andree – Research in Science Education, 1997
Discusses the articulation between teaching and learning, how to differentiate them, and how to establish relations between them as it pertains to aspects of knowledge. Aims to develop teaching situations more relevant to learning. Teaching is associated with knowledge to be taught, knowledge sequencing, and teaching situations. Learning is…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Educational Change, Epistemology, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedThomas, Gregory P. – Research in Science Education, 1999
Describes a teacher-researcher's investigation into barriers to student adoption of an alternative referent for learning and its consequential learning strategies in an 11th-grade chemistry class. Suggests that various contextual factors influenced students' willingness to adopt the alternative referent, and that students' beliefs, trust of the…
Descriptors: Action Research, Chemistry, Classroom Research, Foreign Countries
