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Nja, Cecilia Obi; Cornelius-Ukpepi, Bernedette; Edoho, Emmanuel Asuquo; Neji, Hope Amba – Educational Research and Reviews, 2020
This paper seeks to investigate how students' performance in Chemistry can be enhanced by using kitchen resources in Calabar. The kitchen resources used included a piece of white paper, a swab, lemon juice and candle. These were used to show that paper cellulose was oxidized by flame due to the catalysis of lemon juice acid. Other materials used…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students
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Urbancic, Matej; Glazar, Sasa A. – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2012
The purpose of this study was to establish what impact experimental work has on the understanding of scientific concepts, what pupils remember about the experiments they carried out and how they are able to formulate and understand the experiment plan. A sample of 386 pupils aged 13+ participated in the research, of which 162 in the experimental…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Student Attitudes, Control Groups, Experimental Groups
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Metz, Kathleen E. – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2011
This study examines first graders' epistemic reasoning, in tacit "practical epistemologies" reflected in thinking about an investigation of their own design. I analyzed children's epistemic reasoning, following a design experiment scaffolding increasing regulation of scientific inquiry in a domain they studied in depth. Participants…
Descriptors: Investigations, Familiarity, Interviews, Grade 1