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Enriching STEAM Education with Visual Art: Education Benefits, Teaching Examples, and Trends
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Chengxin Zhang; Bochen Jia – Discover Education, 2024
Background: In the contemporary recent education landscape, an inventive paradigm known as "STEAM" has emerged, which augments the erstwhile STEM framework by incorporating the dimension of "Art". STEAM endeavors to enhance students' capacities for creativity, innovation, and design thinking. Among the various forms of artistic…
Descriptors: Art Education, STEM Education, Visual Arts, Journal Articles
The Effect of Conceptual Change Pedagogy on Students' Conceptions of Rate of Reaction
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Calik, Muammer; Kolomuc, Ali; Karagolge, Zafer – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2010
This paper reports on an investigation of the effect of conceptual change pedagogy on students' conceptions of "rate of reaction" concepts. The study used a pre-test/post-test non-equivalent comparison group design approach and the sample consisted of 72 Turkish grade-11 students (aged 16-18 years) selected from two intact classrooms.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intervention, Concept Formation, Teaching Methods
Investigating the Effectiveness of an Analogy Activity in Improving Students' Conceptual Change for Solution Chemistry Concepts
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Calik, Muammer; Ayas, Alipasa; Coll, Richard K. – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2009
This paper reports on an investigation on the use of an analogy activity and seeks to provide evidence of whether the activity enables students to change alternative conceptions towards views more in accord with scientific views for aspects of solution chemistry. We were also interested in how robust any change was and whether these changes in…
Descriptors: Test Items, Chemistry, Long Term Memory, Foreign Countries
Facilitating Students' Conceptual Understanding of Boiling Using a Four-Step Constructivist Teaching Method
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Calik, Muammer – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2008
The aim of the work presented here was to devise an activity associated with factors affecting boiling points. The intervention used a four-step constructivist-based teaching strategy, which was subsequently evaluated by a cohort of students. Data collection consisted of application of a purpose designed questionnaire consisting of four open-ended…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Schools of Education, Long Term Memory, Foreign Countries
Investigating the Effectiveness of a Constructivist-Based Teaching Model on Student Understanding of the Dissolution of Gases in Liquids
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Calik, Muammer; Ayas, Alipasa; Coll, Richard K.; Unal, Suat; Costu, Bayram – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2007
The research presented in this paper consisted of an investigation of the effectiveness of a four-step constructivist-based teaching activity on student understanding of how pressure and temperature influence the dissolution of a gas in a liquid. Some 44 Grade 9 students (18 boys and 26 girls) selected purposively from two school classes in the…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Student Attitudes, Teaching Models, Long Term Memory
Semiotic Approach and Its Contributions to English Language Learning and Teaching
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Sert, Olcay – Online Submission, 2006
Semiotics is a progressing and promising discipline with its applications in many fields of study. As a bridge between semiotics and foreign language teaching (FLT), educational semiotics has started to attract attention of many scholars, English Language Teaching (ELT) instructors and teachers all over the world. It is obvious that the…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Semiotics, Language Teachers, English (Second Language)