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Emily K. Toutkoushian; Kihyun Ryoo – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2024
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) delineate three interrelated dimensions that describe what students should know and how they should engage in science learning. These present significant challenges for assessment because traditional assessments may not be able to capture the ways in which students engage with content. Science…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Academic Standards, Science Education, Learner Engagement
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Bateman, Kathryn M.; Ham, Joy; Barshi, Naomi; Tikoff, Basil; Shipley, Thomas F. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2023
Spatial skills are embedded in all aspects of the geosciences. The teaching and learning of spatial skills has been a challenging, but vital, endeavor. To support student learning of spatial skills in undergraduate courses, we designed scaffolds for spatially dependent content in a mid-level geoscience course using playdough to allow students to…
Descriptors: Geology, Science Instruction, Course Content, Spatial Ability
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Laliyo, Lukman Abdul Rauf; Hamdi, Syukrul; Pikoli, Masrid; Abdullah, Romario; Panigoro, Citra – European Journal of Educational Research, 2021
One of the issues that hinder the students' learning progress is the inability to construct an epistemological explanation of a scientific phenomenon. Four-tier multiple-choice (hereinafter, 4TMC) instrument and Partial-Credit Model were employed to elaborate on the diagnosis process of the aforementioned problem. This study was to develop and…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Multiple Choice Tests, Models, Test Items
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Kasey A. Karen; Bruce A. Snyder; Rich Adams – American Biology Teacher, 2024
Growing evidence has come to suggest that model-based inquiry can improve student learning outcomes and attitudes toward STEM in the biological sciences and beyond. In our introductory biology laboratory course that focuses on cellular and molecular biology, we introduced model-based inquiry (MBI) labs to create a more student-focused course that…
Descriptors: Biology, Laboratory Experiments, Science Instruction, Undergraduate Students
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Langbeheim, Elon; Ben-Eliyahu, Einat; Adadan, Emine; Akaygun, Sevil; Ramnarain, Umesh Dewnarain – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2022
Learning progressions (LPs) are novel models for the development of assessments in science education, that often use a scale to categorize students' levels of reasoning. Pictorial representations are important in chemistry teaching and learning, and also in LPs, but the differences between pictorial and verbal items in chemistry LPs is unclear. In…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Learning Trajectories, Chemistry, Thinking Skills
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Lubiano, Michael Leonard D.; Magpantay, Marife S. – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2021
This study enhanced the 7E instructional model towards enriching the science inquiry skills of senior high school learners in General Chemistry 1. A total of 136 Grade 12 learners enrolled in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) strand participated in the study. The study was composed of three phases. In Phase I, the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Inquiry, High School Students
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Lubiano, Michael Leonard D.; Magpantay, Marife S. – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2021
This study enhanced the 7E instructional model towards enriching the science inquiry skills of senior high school learners in General Chemistry 1. A total of 136 Grade 12 learners enrolled in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) strand participated in the study. The study was composed of three phases. In Phase I, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Inquiry
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Jin, Hui; Johnson, Michele E.; Shin, Hyo Jeong; Anderson, Charles W. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2017
This study was conducted in a large-scale environmental literacy project. In the project, we developed a Learning Progression Framework (LPF) for matter and energy in social-ecological systems; the LPF contains four achievement levels. Based on the LPF, we designed a Plant Unit to help Levels 2 and 3 students advance to Level 4 of the LPF. In the…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Ecology, Scientific Concepts, Learning Processes
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Duncan, Ravit Golan; Choi, Jinnie; Castro-Faix, Moraima; Cavera, Veronica L. – Science & Education, 2017
Learning progressions (LPs) are hypothetical models of how learning in a domain develops over time with appropriate instruction. In the domain of genetics, there are two independently developed alternative LPs. The main difference between the two progressions hinges on their assumptions regarding the accessibility of classical (Mendelian) versus…
Descriptors: Genetics, Learning Processes, Sequential Learning, Sequential Approach
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Sun, Daner; Looi, Chee-Kit; Xie, Wenting – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2017
When inquiry-based learning is designed for a collaborative context, the interactions that arise in the learning environment can become fairly complex. While the learning effectiveness of such learning environments has been reported in the literature, there have been fewer studies on the students' learning processes. To address this, the article…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Inquiry, Secondary School Students, Concept Formation
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Gojkošek, Mihael; Sliško, Josip; Planinšic, Gorazd – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2013
The transfer of knowledge is considered to be a fundamental goal of education; therefore, knowing and understanding the conditions that influence the efficiency of the transfer from learning activity to problem solving play a decisive role in the improvement of science education. In this article, the results of a study of 196 high school students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Activities, Student Improvement, Skill Development
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Spektor-Levy, Ornit; Eylon, Bat-Sheva; Scherz, Zahava – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2009
This study explores the impact of "Scientific Communication" (SC) skills instruction on students' performances in scientific literacy assessment tasks. We present a general model for skills instruction, characterized by explicit and spiral instruction, integration into content learning, practice in several scientific topics, and application of…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Communication Skills, Models, Grade 7
Smith, Richard B. – 1972
The emphasis in this study is on the development of a diagnostic measurement model for instruction. The content used was junior high science, but the content and subjects were used primarily as a means to an end. The model represents an attempt to incorporate Gagne's learning taxonomy into Tyler's model of the educational act. Focus is on the…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation