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Murphy, Ashley N.; Luna, Melissa J.; Bernstein, Malayna B. – International Journal of Science Education, 2017
Much of the literature on science teaching suggests that elementary teachers lack relevant prior experiences with science. This study begins to reframe the deficit approach to research in science teaching by privileging the experiences elementary teachers have had with science--both in and out of schools--throughout their lives. Our work uses…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Elementary School Teachers, Science Experiments, Teaching Methods
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Viennot, Laurence; Décamp, Nicolas – International Journal of Science Education, 2016
This investigation is focused on possible links between the development of critical attitude and conceptual understanding. We conducted a fine grained analysis of five student teachers' critical and conceptual development during a one hour and a half interaction with an expert. This investigation completes a series of three previous studies…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Concept Formation, Expertise, Physics
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Plummer, Julia D.; Bower, Corinne A.; Liben, Lynn S. – International Journal of Science Education, 2016
This study investigates the role of perspective-taking skills in how children explain spatially complex astronomical phenomena. Explaining many astronomical phenomena, especially those studied in elementary and middle school, requires shifting between an Earth-based description of the phenomena and a space-based reference frame. We studied 7- to…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Perspective Taking, Children, Spatial Ability
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Viennot, Laurence; de Hosson, Cécile – International Journal of Science Education, 2015
This research documents the aims and the impact of a teaching experiment on how the absorption of light depends on the thickness of the absorbing medium. This teaching experiment is more specifically characterized as bringing to bear a "concept-driven interactive pathway". It is designed to make students analyse the absorption of light…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Light, Science Experiments
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Décamp, N.; Viennot, L. – International Journal of Science Education, 2015
This research documents the impact of a teaching interview aimed at developing a critical attitude in students, and focused on a particular topic: radiocarbon dating. This teaching interview is designed to observe students' reaction to limited written explanations of the phenomenon under study, and their possible frustration or intellectual…
Descriptors: Interviews, Critical Thinking, Student Attitudes, Science Instruction
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Özdem Yilmaz, Yasemin; Cakiroglu, Jale; Ertepinar, Hamide; Erduran, Sibel – International Journal of Science Education, 2017
Argumentation has been a prominent concern in science education research and a common goal in science curriculum in many countries over the past decade. With reference to this goal, policy documents burden responsibilities on science teachers, such as involving students in dialogues and being guides in students' spoken or written argumentation.…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Science Teachers
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Brookes, David T.; Etkina, Eugenia – International Journal of Science Education, 2015
Researchers believe that the way that students talk, specifically the language that they use, can offer a window into their reasoning processes. Yet the connection between what students are saying and what they are actually thinking can be ambiguous. We present the results of an exploratory interview study with 10 participants, designed to…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Thermodynamics, Language Usage
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Cheng, Maurice M. W.; Gilbert, John K. – International Journal of Science Education, 2015
This study investigated students' interpretation of diagrams representing the human circulatory system. We conducted an interview study with three students aged 14-15 (Year 10) who were studying biology in a Hong Kong school. During the interviews, students were asked to interpret diagrams and relationships between diagrams that represented…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Human Body, Interviews, Grade 10
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Cheng, Maurice M. W.; Gilbert, John K. – International Journal of Science Education, 2014
This study investigated the mental representations of metallic bonding and the malleability of metals held by three male students aged 14-15 (Year 10) who were attending a Hong Kong school. One student was selected by their chemistry teacher as representing each of the highest, the medium, and the lowest level of attainment in chemistry in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Secondary School Science
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Tolbert, Sara; Knox, Corey – International Journal of Science Education, 2016
This paper describes the results from a qualitative study of 72 preservice teachers' initial ideas about contextualizing science instruction with language minority students. Participants drew primarily on local ecological and multicultural contexts as resources for contextualizing instruction. However, preservice teachers enrolled in the bilingual…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs, Misconceptions
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Peterman, Karen; Cranston, Kayla A.; Pryor, Marie; Kermish-Allen, Ruth – International Journal of Science Education, 2015
This case study was conducted within the context of a place-based education project that was implemented with primary school students in the USA. The authors and participating teachers created a performance assessment of standards-aligned tasks to examine 6-10-year-old students' graph interpretation skills as part of an exploratory research…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Place Based Education, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers