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Zahra Hasani Yourdshahi; Kajsa Yang Hansen; Linda Borger – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2025
Background: Science skills play a crucial role in fostering economic development and technological innovation, making the enhancement of science education a global priority. Despite the recognized importance of teacher practices in enhancing equitable and effective learning, much of the research on their impact on student outcomes has been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Grade 8, Secondary School Science
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Michael E. Robbins; Gabriel J. DiQuattro; Eric W. Burkholder – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection in Investigating and Improving Quantum Education through Research.] One of the greatest weaknesses of physics education research is the paucity of research on graduate education. While there are a growing number of investigations of graduate student degree progress and admissions, there are very few…
Descriptors: Science Education, College Science, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Wei-Zhao Shi; Chunying Zuo; Jingying Wang – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
Previous research has shown that in prehigher education stages, inquiry-based teaching is not sufficient for forming a mature understanding of the nature of science (NOS). However, there is relatively little research conducted on colleges. Inquiry-based teaching should not overlook cognitive frameworks, as students' limited scientific reasoning…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Inquiry, Active Learning, College Science
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William E. Lindsay; Valerie K. Otero – Science Education, 2025
This ethnographic cross-case study examines five teachers' year-long efforts to implement practice-based physics instruction within the unique organizational context of a no-excuses charter network. The teachers were attempting to adapt their didactic, rigid, and compliance-based instructional approach to include more opportunities for students to…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Physics
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Soojeong Jeong; Justin Rague; Kaylee Litson; David F. Feldon; M. Jeannette Lawler; Kenneth Plummer – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
DBL is a novel pedagogical approach intended to improve students' conditional knowledge and problem-solving skills by exposing them to a sequence of branching learning decisions. The DBL software provided students with ample opportunities to engage in the expert decision-making processes involved in complex problem-solving and to receive…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Learning Processes, Introductory Courses, Science Education
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Gayle Geschwind; Michael Vignal; Marcos D. Caballero; H. J. Lewandowski – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Concepts and practices surrounding measurement uncertainty are vital knowledge for physicists and are often emphasized in undergraduate physics laboratory courses. We have previously developed a research-based assessment instrument--the Survey of Physics Reasoning on Uncertainty Concepts in Experiments (SPRUCE)--to examine student proficiency with…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Physics, Science Laboratories, College Science
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Kamphorst, Floor; Vollebregt, M. J.; Savelsbergh, E. R.; van Joolingen, W. R. – Science & Education, 2023
Einstein's derivation of special relativity theory (SRT), based on hypothetical reasoning and thought experiments, is regarded as a prime example of physics theory development. In secondary education, the introduction of SRT could provide a great opportunity for students to engage in physics theorizing, but this opportunity is largely being missed…
Descriptors: Physics, Scientific Concepts, Secondary School Science, Science Education
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Maja Planinic; Katarina Jelicic; Karolina Matejak Cvenic; Ana Susac; Lana Ivanjek – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Wave optics is a mandatory part of Croatian secondary school physics curriculum for students in the final year of secondary school (age 18-19). Many physics education research studies have shown that it is a difficult physics topic for both university and secondary school students. An inquiry-based teaching sequence on wave optics, designed for…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Secondary School Science, Physics, Scientific Concepts
Daniel A. Martens Yaverbaum – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study investigated evidence of how students' mental models of fundamental kinematic relations evolved (i.e., developed cognitively over time) as observed during an introductory course in calculus-based classical mechanics. The core of the curriculum is based on a claim known as Galileo's principle of relativity. The course material comprised…
Descriptors: Schemata (Cognition), Motion, Physics, Science Education
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Mable Moloi; Mogalatjane Edward Matabane – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2024
Digital practical work (DPW) has emerged as a highly effective and indispensable component of science education, enhancing and extending traditional laboratory experiences. DPW aims to complement physical laboratory experiments, particularly those that teachers may find challenging to conduct or lack the confidence to perform. In this study, a…
Descriptors: Physical Sciences, Science Education, Technology Integration, Science Instruction
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Palacios Gómez, Jesús; Villagómez, Roque André Eleazar Arroyo – Physics Teacher, 2023
Here, a relatively simple laboratory experiment of a physical pendulum, suitable for students of science and engineering in the first courses of university physics, is presented to illustrate its dynamic behavior and to determine its inertia moment. To this end, a long wooden rod of length L = 99.8 cm and cross-section radius R = 1.73 cm was used…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Science Laboratories, Motion
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Annisa Ulfa Yana; Supriyono Koes-Handayanto; Sahal Fawaiz; Fauzul Rizal – Journal of Learning for Development, 2025
Procedural and conceptual e-scaffolding has been shown to be effective for assisting novice learners in understanding new concepts. Its integration with modelling instructions (E-MI) raises expectations for improving scientific reasoning (SR) in students whose level is still a concern in Indonesia. A quasi-experimental study was conducted to find…
Descriptors: Science Process Skills, Thinking Skills, Abstract Reasoning, Physics
Christine D. Tippett, Editor; Todd M. Milford, Editor – Springer, 2025
This book showcases current science education research in Canada, from Grade 8 to university. It provides a rich portrait of science teaching and learning at the secondary and tertiary levels across content areas and research methodologies. Research contexts include chemistry, oceanography, physics, and STEM; research approaches include action…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Science, College Science, Science Instruction
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David T. Brookes; Mc Kenna Wallace; Michael Nelson; Anna Karelina; Peter Bohacek; Matthew Vonk; Eugenia Ektina – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Instructional labs: Improving traditions and new directions.] In this paper, we describe the results of a research project whose goals were to (1) develop and implement video-based experimental investigations using the Investigative Science Learning Environment (ISLE) approach and (2) study how…
Descriptors: Scientific Literacy, Science Process Skills, Laboratory Equipment, Science Experiments
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Kyla Adams; Anastasia Lonshakova; David Blair; David Treagust; Tejinder Kaur – Teaching Science, 2024
Quantum science is in the news daily and engages students' interest and curiosity. A fundamental quantum science concept that underpins medical imaging, quantum computing and many future technologies is quantum spin. Quantum spin can explain many physical phenomena that are in the lower secondary school curriculum, such as magnetism and light,…
Descriptors: Quantum Mechanics, Science Instruction, Physics, Science Activities
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