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Understanding of Relation Structures of Graphical Models by Lower Secondary Students
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van Buuren, Onne; Heck, André; Ellermeijer, Ton – Research in Science Education, 2016
A learning path has been developed on system dynamical graphical modelling, integrated into the Dutch lower secondary physics curriculum. As part of the developmental research for this learning path, students' understanding of the relation structures shown in the diagrams of graphical system dynamics based models has been investigated. One of our…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physics, Secondary School Science, Science Curriculum
Developing Videos to Better Inform Middle School Students about STEM Career Options
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Wyss, Vanessa L. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2013
Student perceptions of science-oriented careers and scientists have been shown to be largely inaccurate. Through an instructional design and development process we have developed a method for offering students more accurate information about science-oriented careers. This paper follows the steps involved in developing a volume of…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Instructional Design, Video Technology, Middle School Students
Toward Effective and Compelling Instruction for High School eCommerce Students: Results from a Small Field Study
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Luterbach, Kenneth J.; Rodriguez, Diane; Love, Lakecia – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2012
This paper describes an instructional development effort to create effective and compelling instruction for eCommerce students. Results from a small field study inform the development project. Four high school students in an eCommerce course completed the standalone tutorial developed to teach them how to create a web page in the HyperText Markup…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Instructional Development, High School Students, Student Motivation
Incorporating Formative Assessment and Science Content into Elementary Science Methods--A Case Study
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Brower, Derek John – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Just as elementary students enter the science classroom with prior knowledge and experiences, so do preservice elementary teachers who enter the science methods classroom. Elementary science methods instructors recognize the challenges associated with preparing teachers for the science classroom. Two of these challenges include overcoming limited…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Preservice Teachers, Science Instruction, Methods Courses
Using SOLO to Evaluate an Educational Virtual Environment in a Technology Education Setting
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Padiotis, Ioannis; Mikropoulos, Tassos A. – Educational Technology & Society, 2010
The present research investigates the contribution of an interactive educational virtual environment on milk pasteurization to the learning outcomes of 40 students in a technical secondary school using SOLO taxonomy. After the interaction with the virtual environment the majority of the students moved to higher hierarchical levels of understanding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Technology Education, Misconceptions
Conceptual Change through Vicarious Learning in an Authentic Physics Setting
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Muller, Derek A.; Sharma, Manjula D.; Eklund, John; Reimann, Peter – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2007
Recent research on principles of best practice for designing effective multimedia instruction has rarely taken into account students' alternative conceptions, which are known to strongly influence learning. The goal of this study was to determine how well students of quantum mechanics could learn "vicariously" by watching a student-tutor dialogue…
Descriptors: Quantum Mechanics, Physics, Tutors, Multimedia Instruction