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Avargil, Shirly; Saxena, Arunika – Research in Science Education, 2023
Drawing, constructing, and explaining a model of a given abstract phenomenon is a challenging task. In this study, students were engaged in the "Project-Based Inquiry Science (PBIS)-Air Quality" learning unit, as part of their chemistry curriculum. The study aim is to determine how well students understand chemistry conceptually after…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Chemistry, Pollution, Scoring Rubrics
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Phamduy, Paul; Leou, Mary; Milne, Catherine; Porfiri, Maurizio – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2017
Informal science learning aims to improve public understanding of STEM. Free-choice learners can be engaged in a wide range of experiences, ranging from watching entertaining educational videos to actively participating in hands-on projects. Efforts in informal science learning are often gauged by their ability to elicit interaction, to foster…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Robotics, Informal Education, Science Instruction
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Margolin, Jonathan; Ba, Harouna; Friedman, Lawrence B.; Swanlund, Andrew; Dhillon, Sonica; Liu, Feng – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2021
The "Playground Physics" program combines informal, play-based, embodied learning experiences to support middle school students' engagement with and motivation to learn about complex and abstract physics concepts. This experimental design study examines the impact of "Playground Physics" on students' science motivation,…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Playground Activities, Game Based Learning, Informal Education
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Talanquer, Vincente – Journal of Chemical Education, 2017
Several concept inventories have been developed to elicit students' alternative conceptions in chemistry. It is suggested that heuristic reasoning may bias students' answers in these types of assessments toward intuitively appealing choices. If this is the case, one could expect students to improve their performance by engaging in more analytical…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Chemistry, College Science, Undergraduate Study
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Parong, Jocelyn; Mayer, Richard E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2018
The goals of the study were (a) to compare the instructional effectiveness of immersive virtual reality (VR) versus a desktop slideshow as media for teaching scientific knowledge, and (b) to examine the efficacy of adding a generative learning strategy to a VR lesson. In Experiment 1, college students viewed a biology lesson about how the human…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Simulated Environment, Computer Simulation, Educational Technology
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Yamashita, Shuichi; Kashiwaguma, Yasuyuki; Hayashi, Hideko; Pietzner, Verena – Science Education International, 2017
In science classes, students usually learn about the law of definite proportions by the oxidation of copper. However, common procedures usually do not lead to proper results. This leads to confusion among the students because their experimental results do not fit to the theoretical values. Therefore, we invented a new procedure for this experiment…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Experiments, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation
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Van Horne, Sam; Curran, Maura; Smith, Anna; VanBuren, John; Zahrieh, David; Larsen, Russell; Miller, Ross – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2018
Instructional technologists and faculty in post-secondary institutions have increasingly adopted learning analytics interventions such as dashboards that provide real-time feedback to students to support student' ability to regulate their learning. But analyses of the effectiveness of such interventions can be confounded by measures of students'…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Learning Strategies, Questionnaires
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Espinosa, Allen A.; Datukan, Janir T.; Butron, Benilda R.; Tameta, Anna Danica C. – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2018
The present study determined the perceptions of pre-service teachers on utilizing productive lesson study as a framework in teaching high school chemistry. Participants of the study were thirty (30) junior pre-service chemistry teachers from a state-funded teacher education institution in Manila, Philippines. Participants were exposed to a…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Preservice Teachers
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Aflalo, Ester – Issues in Educational Research, 2018
Understanding the nature of science (NOS) is one of the challenging objectives in science education due, in part, to the complex relationship between religion and science. This study examines how NOS teaching affects the perception of the NOS amongst religious, as compared to secular, students. The participants included 205 religious and secular…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Religion, Student Attitudes, Jews
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Twum, Rosemary – Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
This study was designed to examine the use of mobile phone, a widespread technology, and determined how this technology influences science students' learning. The study intended to examine the use of smartphones in science teaching and learning and propose of model in the use of smartphones for teaching and learning. The research design employed…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Handheld Devices
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Sletten, Sarah Rae – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2017
In flipped classrooms, lectures, which are normally delivered in-class, are assigned as homework in the form of videos, and assignments that were traditionally assigned as homework, are done as learning activities in class. It was hypothesized that the effectiveness of the flipped model hinges on a student's desire and ability to adopt a…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Homework, Video Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Jackson, Luke M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This mixed method study was aimed at examining the influence of dual processing (Type 1 and Type 2 thinking) on the development of high school students' nature of science (NOS) views. Type 1 thinking is intuitive, experiential, and heuristic. Type 2 thinking is rational, analytical, and explicit. Three research questions were asked: (1) Do the…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, High School Students, Scientific Principles, Science Instruction
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Corkin, Danya M.; Horn, Catherine; Pattison, Donna – Educational Psychology, 2017
This study examined differences in students' classroom motivational climate perceptions and motivational beliefs between those enrolled in undergraduate Biology courses that implemented an innovative, active learning intervention and those enrolled in traditional Biology courses (control group). This study also sought to determine whether…
Descriptors: College Students, College Science, Biology, Science Instruction
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Antink-Meyer, Allison; Bartos, Stephen; Lederman, Judith S.; Lederman, Norman G. – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2016
Recent years have witnessed a dramatic rise in the number of middle and high school students from Asian countries participating in U.S.-based summer experiences (Perlez & Gao, 2013). Although summer science camps have been shown to improve students' attitudes and interests related to science and science learning (Bhattacharyya, Mead &…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Summer Programs, Program Effectiveness, Science Instruction
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Stead, Di – Primary Science, 2015
In the autumn term of 2011, it was identified that a programme of support for developing science in the curriculum was required at a newly opened special school, Beacon Reach, in Lancashire, which caters to children with autism spectrum disorders. Staff wanted to provide a relevant and meaningful curriculum, accessible even to young people who…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Program Development
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