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Timothy, Venance; Watzka, Bianca; Stadler, Matthias; Girwidz, Raimund; Fischer, Frank – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2023
Physics teachers need diagnostic competence to effectively identify students' misconceptions, but studies have yet to sufficiently investigate how this competence can be advanced through various instructional strategies. In this study, we compared a problem-solving strategy against an example-based strategy in advancing diagnostic competence in…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Physics, Science Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
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Dmoshinskaia, Natasha; Gijlers, Hannie; de Jong, Ton – Learning Environments Research, 2022
Giving feedback to peers can be a powerful learning tool because of the feedback provider's active cognitive involvement with the products to be reviewed. The quality of peers' products is naturally an important factor that might influence not only the quality of the feedback that is given, but also the learning arising from this process. This…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Knowledge Level, Prior Learning
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Kirsty Dunnett; Anders Mattias Lundmark – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
'A lack of prior knowledge in the other discipline' is often given by geoscience instructors to explain why students struggle to apply knowledge from other disciplines to the Earth. We examine this assumption by considering the disciplinary crossing of buoyancy (physics) to isostasy (geoscience). We investigate the teachers' perspective through…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Earth Science, Interdisciplinary Approach, Physics
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Emily M. Stump; Mark Hughes; Gina Passante; N. G. Holmes – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Instructional labs: Improving traditions and new directions.] Uncertainty is an important concept in physics laboratory instruction. However, little work has examined how students reason about uncertainty beyond the introductory (intro) level. In this work we aimed to compare intro and beyond-intro…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Scientific Attitudes, Physics, Introductory Courses
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Kuang, Xiulin; Eysink, Tessa H. S.; de Jong, Ton – Journal of Educational Research, 2022
This study investigated the effects of providing domain information in an early stage of an inquiry process, together with an aligned hypothesis scratchpad, on inquiry learning, and hypothesis generation in particular. Participants were provided with basic domain information that was adapted to their prior knowledge (experimental condition) or…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Hypothesis Testing, Secondary School Students, Prior Learning
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Haldolaarachchige, Neel; Hettiarachchilage, Kalani – Physics Education, 2022
Physics educators keep adding many skill developments to science and engineering students during their education as individuals and groups including critical thinking, conceptual understanding, problem-solving, mathematical implementation, computational implementation, etc. Here, we are discussing how to reach and analyse students' outcomes within…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Calculus, In Person Learning
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Dega, Bekele Gashe – European Journal of Physics Education, 2019
Students' responses to energy & momentum (EM) concepts were investigated. EM concepts are fundamental and crosscutting in physics. A standardized Energy and Momentum Conceptual Survey (EMCS) test were used to collect quantitative data from 108 first year science students enrolled in a university in Ethiopia. Concentration analysis was used to…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Energy, Physics, College Freshmen
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Binder, Torsten; Schmiemann, Philipp; Theyssen, Heike – Education Sciences, 2019
This study investigates the knowledge acquisition of biology and physics freshmen students with special regard to differences between high school (HS) high performing and low performing students. Our study is based on a prior knowledge model, which describes explicit knowledge as a composite of four knowledge types: knowledge of facts, knowledge…
Descriptors: College Science, Biology, Physics, Prior Learning
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Cahill, Michael J.; McDaniel, Mark A.; Frey, Regina F.; Hynes, K. Mairin; Repice, Michelle; Zhao, Jiuqing; Trousil, Rebecca – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2018
Student attitudes, defined as the extent to which one holds expertlike beliefs about and approaches to physics, are a major research topic in physics education research. An implicit but rarely tested assumption underlying much of this research is that student attitudes play a significant part in student learning and performance. The current study…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Learning, Correlation, Physics
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Slisko, Josip – Knowledge Management & E-Learning, 2021
Research shows that traditional teacher-and-content-centered education doesn't give students good preparation in critical and creative thinking. This article presents a qualitative study of student performances in two original learning tasks, one related to critical thinking and the other related to creative thinking. The study was carried out in…
Descriptors: Social Media, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Creative Thinking
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van Riesen, Siswa A. N.; Gijlers, Hannie; Anjewierden, Anjo; de Jong, Ton – International Journal of Science Education, 2018
Designing and conducting sound and informative experiments is an important aspect of inquiry learning. Students, however, often design experiments that do not allow them to reach conclusions. Considering the difficulties students experience with the process of designing experiments, additional guidance in the form of an Experiment Design Tool…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Research Design, Science Experiments, Inquiry
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Binder, Torsten; Sandmann, Angela; Sures, Bernd; Friege, Gunnar; Theyssen, Heike; Schmiemann, Philipp – International Journal of STEM Education, 2019
Background: Increasingly, high dropout rates in science courses at colleges and universities have led to discussions of causes and potential support measures of students. Students' prior knowledge is repeatedly mentioned as the best predictor of academic achievement. Theory describes four hierarchically ordered types of prior knowledge, from…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Knowledge Level, Science Instruction, Biology
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van Riesen, Siswa; Gijlers, Hannie; Anjewierden, Anjo; de Jong, Ton – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2018
Inquiry learning is an educational approach in which learners actively construct knowledge and in which performing investigations and conducting experiments is central. To support learners in designing informative experiments we created a scaffold, the Experiment Design Tool (EDT), that provided learners with a step-by-step structure to select…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Teaching Methods, Experiments, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
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Imhof, Christof; Bergamin, Per; Moser, Ivan; Holthaus, Matthias – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2018
This article demonstrates how an adaptive instructional design for a physics module can be realized in a standard learning management system. We implemented a didactic design with physics-specific online exercises that were accompanied by either detailed or non-detailed instructions, depending on the results of the previous task (or a prior…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Physics, Science Instruction, Integrated Learning Systems
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Bollen, Laurens; De Cock, Mieke; Zuza, Kristina; Guisasola, Jenaro; van Kampen, Paul – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2016
We have investigated whether and how a categorization of responses to questions on linear distance-time graphs, based on a study of Irish students enrolled in an algebra-based course, could be adopted and adapted to responses from students enrolled in calculus-based physics courses at universities in Flanders, Belgium (KU Leuven) and the Basque…
Descriptors: Mechanics (Physics), Motion, Graphs, Classification
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