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Chen, Ying-Chih; Hand, Brian; McDowell, Leah – Science Education, 2013
This quasi-experimental and pre/posttest study was designed to examine whether fourth-grade students who engaged in collaboratively writing letters to 11th-grade students performed better on tests of conceptual understanding of a unit on force and motion than students who did not. The participants included 835 fourth-grade students and 416…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Pretests Posttests, Grade 4, Grade 11
Papalexopoulos, Panagiotis F.; Vavougios, Dionisios; Vlachos, Filippos; Karapetsas, Argiris B. – Themes in Science and Technology Education, 2008
In this paper we studied the effectiveness of the writing criteria that are proposed to be applied during the construction of physics texts so that students with dyslexia do not confront reading difficulties with them. The effectiveness of the criteria has been assessed by the accomplishment of an investigation among students with and without…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Dyslexia, Teaching Methods
Hand, Brian; Yang, Olivia Eun-mi; Bruxvoort, Crystal – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2007
This study researched the use of writing-to-learn strategies within a high-school (Year 11) chemistry classroom. The writing task itself asked the students to write a business letter to a younger audience of middle-school (Year 7) students. A mixed-method design was used for the study, incorporating pre/post- testing with semi-structured…
Descriptors: Stoichiometry, Writing (Composition), Interviews, Attitude Change