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Hyejin Park – ProQuest LLC, 2021
A need for current science education has emerged in enhancing students' deep involvement in scientific practices in core disciplines. Students are encouraged to improve crosscutting concepts and disciplinary core ideas through authentic science practice through constructing theories about the real world, generating questions, conducting…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Research and Development, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Barriers
Webb, Horace P. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Doing and learning science are social activities that require certain language, activities, and values. Both constitute what Gee (2005) calls Discourses. The language of learning science varies with the learning context (Lemke, 2001,1990). "Science for All Americans" (AAAS, 1990) and "Inquiry and the National Science Education…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Mentors, Federal Legislation, Discourse Analysis
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Wadman, Melissa; Driscoll, Wendy deProphetis; Kurzawa, Elizabeth – Journal of Museum Education, 2009
Many science centers have partnerships with schools, universities or scientific industry. This article will describe a unique collaborative project between Liberty Science Center, Wagner College, and Picatinny Center (a government research center) that has college interns working with and learning from science center staff and real scientists in a…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Teaching Centers, Colleges, Research and Development Centers
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Heck, Andre; Kedzierska, Ewa; Ellermeijer, Ton – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2009
In this paper we report on the sustained research and development work at the AMSTEL Institute of the University of Amsterdam to improve mathematics and science education at primary and secondary school level, which has lead amongst other things to the development of the integrated computer working environment Coach 6. This environment consists of…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Inquiry
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Simonson, Michael, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2014
For the thirty-seventh year, the Research and Theory Division and the Division of Instructional Design of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) sponsored the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the annual AECT Convention in Jacksonville, Florida. This year's Proceedings…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Web Sites, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Remington, John A. – Social Studies of Science, 1988
Gives an overview of the intellectual and social structure of science in the United States since the mid-1960s. Discusses some factors responsible for establishing new research directions. Describes the change of the meaning of "inquiry," circumstances, and research style. (Author/YP)
Descriptors: College Science, Higher Education, Inquiry, Research Administration