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Fan Chen; Gaowei Chen – Science & Education, 2025
Collaborative inquiry is an instructional approach that encourages student groups to engage in scientific inquiry processes, thereby enhancing their critical thinking and exploratory skills. The effective classroom implementation of this method requires ensuring student engagement in each inquiry stage, where technological tools and activity…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Cooperative Learning, Science Education
Russ, Rosemary S.; Berland, Leema K. – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2019
A central goal of science education reform is for students to participate in scientific sense making rather than to merely acquire science facts. However, even in classrooms utilizing reform-based pedagogies, students are typically allowed to construct knowledge only insofar as they construct expected knowledge. In this report and reflection, we…
Descriptors: Science Education, Educational Change, Science Instruction, Concept Formation
Eckhardt, Marc; Urhahne, Detlef; Conrad, Olaf; Harms, Ute – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2013
The study examined the effects of two different instructional interventions as support for scientific discovery learning using computer simulations. In two well-known categories of difficulty, data interpretation and self-regulation, instructional interventions for learning with computer simulations on the topic "ecosystem water" were developed…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Cognitive Processes, Academic Support Services, Discovery Learning
Park Rogers, Meredith A.; Abell, Sandra K.; Marra, Rose M.; Arbaugh, Fran; Hutchins, Kristen L.; Cole, James S. – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2010
Just as individual teachers have orientations to teaching and learning science that influence their practice, we assert that professional development (PD) projects also have an orientation that guides the design and implementation of the entire project; a construct we term "PD Project Orientation". The purpose of this study was to validate the…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Science Teachers, Professional Development, Science Education
Easton, Peter B. – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2011
In this response to Hewson and Ogunniyi's paper on indigenous knowledge (IK) and science teaching in South Africa, I seek to broaden the debate by setting the enterprise of integrating IK into science education in its cultural and socio-political context. I begin by exploring the multiple meanings of indigenous knowledge in Africa, next consider…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, African Culture, Discovery Learning, Science Education
Hushman, Carolyn J.; Marley, Scott C. – Journal of Educational Research, 2015
The authors investigated whether the amount of instructional guidance affects science learning and self-efficacy. Sixty 9- and 10-year-old children were randomly assigned to one of the following three instructional conditions: (a) guided instruction consisting of examples and student-generated explanations, (b) direct instruction consisting of a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Self Efficacy, Science Education, Science Instruction
Carver, Sharon M., Ed.; Shrager, Jeff, Ed. – APA Books, 2012
The impulse to investigate the natural world is deeply rooted in our earliest childhood experiences. This notion has long guided researchers to uncover the cognitive mechanisms underlying the development of scientific reasoning in children. Until recently, however, research in cognitive development and education followed largely independent…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Class Activities, Learning Activities, Science Education
Sadeh, Irit; Zion, Michal – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2009
Dynamic inquiry learning emphasizes aspects of change, intellectual flexibility, and critical thinking. Dynamic inquiry learning is characterized by the following criteria: learning as a process, changes during the inquiry, procedural understanding, and affective points of view. This study compared the influence of open versus guided inquiry…
Descriptors: Science Activities, Criteria, Biology, Decision Making

Stewart, Jim; Hafner, Robert – Science Education, 1991
Reviews the literature concerning problem solving in science education. Authors contend that the adoption of a forward-looking viewpoint of science has increased the attention given to the topics of discovery and problem-solving behavior. Authors conclude that research by philosophers of science on models and problem solving include insights to…
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Literature Reviews, Models

Trombulak, Stephen C. – Bioscience, 1995
Descriptors: Biology, College Science, Discovery Learning, Higher Education

Rieck, William – Science Activities, 1994
Describes an activity that allows students to discover the concept of density and that density is a determining physical property of a pure substance. Makes suggestions to further enhance students' understanding of density. (ZWH)
Descriptors: Density (Matter), Discovery Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Physical Sciences

Solomon, Joan – Education in Science, 1992
Describes changes in approaches and theories in science teaching. The oldest theory asserts that children are simple knowledge receivers. Discovery learning appeared in the 1960s, followed by constructivism, and then the cognitive acceleration model of learning. Author states that persuasion is an important aspect of learning that has been…
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Persuasive Discourse, Piagetian Theory

Haukoos, Gerry D.; Penick, John E. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1985
Examined the effect of discovery and non-discovery classroom climates on college students learning of science process skills and biology content achievement. Results indicate students in discovery climate learned as much content as students in more direct class. These and other results are compared to those of an earlier study. (JN)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biology, Classroom Environment, Discovery Learning
MOSAIC, 1979
The new role of the museum science center in science education is presented. Various innovative programs for amateurs, aspiring scientists, and casual visitors at several leading science centers are discussed. (SA)
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Exhibits, Experiential Learning, Learning Activities
Cartwright, Sally – Child Care Information Exchange, 1989
Describes one teacher's approach to teaching science in preschool and discusses the advantages of experiential learning in preschool science programs. (RJC)
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Early Childhood Education, Learning Strategies, Preschool Children