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Ralph Meulenbroeks; Rob van Rijn; Martijn Reijerkerk – Research in Science Education, 2024
Intrinsic motivation plays a unique mediating role in student academic performance. An inquiry-based learning (IBL) physics practical is studied in terms of effects on secondary school students' intrinsic motivation towards performing science practicals. After performing IBL experiments on ionizing radiation, 38 secondary school physics students…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Science Education, Student Motivation, Active Learning
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C. F. J. Pols; P. J. J. M. Dekkers – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Acknowledgement of the limited learning outcomes in our first-year physics lab course, strikingly similar to the observed and reported issues in literature, incited renewal of the course with a focus on developing students' ability to engage in experimental physics research. The "procedural and conceptual knowledge (PACKS)…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Laboratories, Student Research, Science Process Skills
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Wan, Tong – International Journal of Science Education, 2023
Measurement uncertainty is a key topic in the university physics laboratory curriculum. In this study, we investigate students' ability to draw conclusions from measurement data and reasoning about measurement uncertainty in inquiry labs. This investigation centres around a task where students conclude whether measurements from two experiments…
Descriptors: Measurement, Physics, College Science, Science Laboratories
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Paul R. Destefano; Ralf Widenhorn – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Instructional labs: Improving traditions and new directions.] This manuscript presents a case study of an introductory physics student who, during the remote learning conditions imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic, found inspiration within a new, open-inquiry, project-based, laboratory curriculum…
Descriptors: Science Experiments, Optics, Physics, Distance Education
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Wei-Zhao Shi; Chunying Zuo; Jingying Wang – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
Previous research has shown that in prehigher education stages, inquiry-based teaching is not sufficient for forming a mature understanding of the nature of science (NOS). However, there is relatively little research conducted on colleges. Inquiry-based teaching should not overlook cognitive frameworks, as students' limited scientific reasoning…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Inquiry, Active Learning, College Science
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Siantuba, Jackson; Nkhata, Leonard; de Jong, Ton – Smart Learning Environments, 2023
This study sought to develop and evaluate an online module based on inquiry learning with digital laboratories, which was intended to address students' misconceptions in a science domain. In a quasi-experimental design, 171 first-year students in a higher education introductory physics course on circular motion were as their existing groups…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Science, Introductory Courses, Physics
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Thacker, Beth – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Instructional labs: Improving traditions and new directions.] This paper presents a historical analysis of the development, implementation, research, and assessment of an evidence-based introductory algebra-based physics course. The course is laboratory based and taught with an inquiry-based…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Inquiry, Science Laboratories
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Chuang Chen; Siti Nazleen Abdul Rabu; Nurullizam Jamiat – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2025
Integrating virtual laboratories (VLs) with science education promotes inquiry-based learning by providing an interactive, dynamic environment in which students actively engage with scientific concepts. While previous research highlights the effectiveness of VLs as tools in the IBL process, few studies have embedded the entire inquiry process…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Education, Science Achievement, Flipped Classroom
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Michal Sigron; Dorothy Langley; Stanislaw Dylak; Edit Yerushalmi – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
Response to the continuing call to integrate scientific inquiry activities into high school education has taken different forms varying in student ownership, physical setting, time span, and mentoring resources. Important issues are how students perceive central dimensions of their experience, and the extent to which the inquiry framework design…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, High School Students, Physics, Secondary School Science
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Teresa Celestino; Dora Stella Lombardi – Journal of Chemical Education, 2024
Italian high school students carried out some activities within career guidance actions organized by the Department of Chemistry of Sapienza University (Rome) in order to promote enrollments in a chemistry Bachelor's course, thus remedying the shortage of professional chemists. Novel didactic sequences have been designed to facilitate the…
Descriptors: High School Students, Science Activities, Scientific Concepts, Foreign Countries
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Cai, Bei; Mainhood, Lindsay A.; Groome, Ryan; Laverty, Corinne; McLean, Alastair – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
We investigated physics students' behavior in a second-year laboratory by analyzing transcribed audio recordings of laboratory sessions. One student group was given both a problem and procedure and asked to analyze and explain their results. Another was provided with only the problem and asked to design and execute the experiment, interpret the…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Science Laboratories, Undergraduate Students
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AL Jadidi, Nadia Ahmed A.; Mohamed, Dalia Abdelwahed; Elrefee, Enas Mahmoud – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2022
There is a severe shortcoming in science programs in kindergartens in Saudi Arabia. Therefore, this paper presents a conceptual framework for teaching physics concepts to kindergartens to contribute to the consolidation of scientific knowledge by stimulating the skills of inquiry, problem-solving and scientific thinking among children. The…
Descriptors: Natural Sciences, Science Instruction, Physics, Scientific Concepts
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Perl-Nussbaum, David; Yerushalmi, Edit – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
Inquiry practices can be integrated into various settings that differ in terms of their constraints and hence in the scope and depth of the practices that students experience. Key policy papers suggest implementing a gradual learning sequence for inquiry practices so that students' learning experiences in more constrained settings can serve them…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Inquiry, Relevance (Education)
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Hwang, Wu-Yuin; Purba, Siska Wati Dewi – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2022
The Ubiquitous-Physics (U-Physics) app was upgraded to help students in learning inclined plane concepts. The new version of U-Physics allows students to see the experimental data not only in a graphical representation but also in a tabular representation. U-Physics provides a whiteboard function to support data explanations. The study…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Hobbs, Robert – Physics Teacher, 2018
Gas emission tubes are widely used laboratory and demonstration apparatus because the line source nature of the tube produces line spectra when viewed directly through a diffraction grating. These are long and distinctly visible images of the tube, located to either side of the zeroth order at an angle determined by the wavelength. A continuous…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Inquiry, College Science
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