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Sen, Senol; Oskay, Ozge Ozyalcin – Journal of Education and Learning, 2017
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of 5E inquiry learning activities on students' achievement, attitude toward chemistry. A non-equivalent control group design was used to the quasi-experimental research in this study. A total of 34 (8 males and 26 females) undergraduates in Turkey voluntarily participated in the study. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inquiry, Science Achievement, Student Attitudes
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Cooper, Thomas; Bailey, Brad; Briggs, Karen; Holliday, John – PRIMUS, 2017
The authors have completed a 2-year quasi-experimental study on the use of inquiry-based learning (IBL) in precalculus. This study included six traditional lecture-style courses and seven modified Moore method courses taught by three instructors. Both quantitative and qualitative analyses were used to investigate the attitudes and beliefs of the…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Quasiexperimental Design, Inquiry, Teaching Methods
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Duran, Meltem; Dökme, Ilbilge – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2016
The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of an activity set developed according to the inquiry-based learning (IBL) approach in the unit "Particulate Structure of Matter" on students' critical-thinking skills in science and technology courses. The study was conducted with 90 students from the 6th grade attending four, 6th…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Inquiry, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills
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Smith, Andri L.; Purcell, Rebecca J.; Vaughan, Joel M. – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2015
Most students enroll in general education introductory nutrition classes because they want to improve their diets in order to lose weight or enhance athletic performance. These nonscience majors are often less interested in learning about the fundamental biochemical principles underlying nutrition or are surprised that this foundational knowledge…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, Learning Activities, Nutrition Instruction
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Chiu, Jennifer L.; Linn, Marcia C. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2014
This paper describes the design and impact of an inquiry-oriented online curriculum that takes advantage of dynamic molecular visualizations to improve students' understanding of chemical reactions. The visualization-enhanced unit uses research-based guidelines following the knowledge integration framework to help students develop coherent…
Descriptors: Secondary School Science, Chemistry, Visualization, Electronic Learning
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Thacker, Beth; Dulli, Hani; Pattillo, Dave; West, Keith – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2014
We report conceptual inventory results of a large-scale assessment project at a large university. We studied the introduction of materials and instructional methods informed by physics education research (PER) (physics education research-informed materials) into a department where most instruction has previously been traditional and a significant…
Descriptors: Measurement, Physics, Science Education, Educational Research
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Forcino, Frank L. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2013
Laboratory sections of university Earth science courses provide hands-on, inquiry-based activities for students in support of lecture and discussion. Here, I compare student conceptual knowledge outcomes of laboratory sections by administering an independent concept inventory at the beginning and end of two courses: one that had a lecture and a…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Introductory Courses, Science Laboratories, Outcomes of Education
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Brophy, Sean P.; Magana, Alejandra J.; Strachan, Alejandro – Advances in Engineering Education, 2013
We studied the use of online molecular dynamics simulations (MD) to enhance student abilities to understand the atomic processes governing plastic deformation in materials. The target population included a second-year undergraduate engineering course in the School of Materials Engineering at Purdue University. The objectives of the study were to…
Descriptors: Lecture Method, Undergraduate Study, Inquiry, Laboratories
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Lorch, Robert F., Jr.; Lorch, Elizabeth P.; Calderhead, William J.; Dunlap, Emily E.; Hodell, Emily C.; Freer, Benjamin Dunham – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2010
Students (n = 797) from 36 4th-grade classrooms were taught the control of variables strategy for designing experiments. In the instruct condition, classes were taught in an interactive lecture format. In the manipulate condition, students worked in groups to design and run experiments to determine the effects of four variables. In the both…
Descriptors: Lecture Method, Experiments, Predictor Variables, Pretests Posttests
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Gatch, Delena – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2010
Despite efforts to engage students in the traditional lecture environment, faculty in Georgia Southern University's Physics Department became dissatisfied with lecture as the primary means of instruction. During the fall semester of 2006, our department began adapting the studio model to suit the needs of introductory calculus-based physics…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, College Science, Active Learning
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Sola, Agboola Omowunmi; Ojo, Oloyede Ezekiel – Educational Research and Reviews, 2007
This study assessed and compared the relative effectiveness of three methods for teaching and conducting experiments in separation of mixtures in chemistry. A pre-test, post-test experimental design with a control group was used. Two hundred and thirty three randomly selected Senior Secondary School I (SSS I) chemistry students were drawn from…
Descriptors: Science Achievement, Science Instruction, High School Seniors, Chemistry
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So, Wing-Mui Winnie; Kong, Siu-Cheung – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2007
This study aims to examine the design of approaches for inquiry learning with multimedia resources in primary classrooms. The study describes the development of a multimedia learning unit that helps learners understand the natural phenomenon of the movement of the Earth. An analysis of the use of the multimedia learning unit by a teacher in two…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Multimedia Materials, Intermode Differences, Activity Units