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Turk, Judith K. – Natural Sciences Education, 2023
Literature circles are student-led, small-group discussions that promote active learning and engagement with literary texts. The objective of this study was to assess the impact of literature circles on student engagement and learning outcomes in a pedology course. For various reading assignments throughout the semester, students either…
Descriptors: Soil Science, Reading Assignments, Science Instruction, Student Attitudes
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Linda Prentice; Gideon Twum – Teaching and Learning Excellence through Scholarship, 2021
Can a class assignment covering the reading help students do better in an introductory chemistry class for nonmajors? Two sections of the same course have been compared where one section had a reading assignment that "forced" the students to interact with the text while the other class had the typical homework, quiz assignments, and…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Textbooks
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Devany, Emral – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2020
Instructors expect students to read before class to engage them in using higher-order thinking skills that are critical to performing in group work and engaging in discussions. As many instructors are aware, however, for various reasons many students don't read the assigned textbook. In this study, science news articles were used as prereadings to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Journal Articles, Readiness, Thinking Skills
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Bassett, Kaleb; Olbricht, Gayla R.; Shannon, Katie B. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2020
The flipped classroom has the potential to improve student performance. Because flipping involves both preclass preparation and problem solving in the classroom, the means by which increased learning occurs and whether the method of delivering content matters is of interest. In a partially flipped cell biology course, students were assigned online…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Homework, Video Technology, Reading Assignments
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Scholes, Laura; Stahl, Garth; Comber, Barbara; McDonald, Sarah; Brownlee, Jo Lunn – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2021
Building on work that brings literacy instruction and student science learner identity together, this study addresses a gap in research related to student experiences as readers in middle school science classrooms. To understand student perceptions of pedagogical approaches to reading in science, we asked 45 middle school students to reflect on…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Middle School Students, Science Instruction, Content Area Reading
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Grace, Emily; Griffis, Rachel B. – International Journal of Christianity & Education, 2018
This article is a small empirical study based on two assignments, both involving reading and writing, in two physics courses at a Christian college. Students read theological, philosophical, and scientific arguments and produced research papers. By performing interdisciplinary intellectual work, students considered the compatibility of science and…
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, Christianity, College Science, Science Instruction
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Irby, Beverly J.; Tong, Fuhui; Lara-Alecio, Rafael; Tang, Shifang; Guerrero, Cindy; Wang, Zhuoying; Zhen, Fubiao – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2021
In this empirical study we examined the effect of a literacy-infused science intervention on fifth grade economically challenged students' science achievement in the curriculum-based and standardized assessments. A total of 27 treatment students and 20 comparison students from two intermediate schools in a rural district in South Texas in the…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Low Income Students, Science Achievement, Science Instruction
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Lieu, Rebekah; Wong, Ashley; Asefirad, Anahita; Shaffer, Justin F. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2017
High-structure courses or flipped courses require students to obtain course content before class so that class time can be used for active-learning exercises. While textbooks are used ubiquitously in college biology courses for content dissemination, studies have shown that students frequently do not read their textbooks. To address this issue, we…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Biology, Science Instruction, Active Learning
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McDonnell, Lisa; Barker, Megan K.; Wieman, Carl – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2016
In this experiment, students in a large undergraduate biology course were first exposed to the concepts without new technical vocabulary ("jargon") in a pre-class reading assignment. Their learning of the concepts and jargon was compared with that of an equivalent group of students in another section of the same course, whose pre-class…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Jargon, Undergraduate Students, Biology
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Dobson, John L.; Linderholm, Tracy – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2015
The testing effect shows that learning is enhanced by the act of recalling information after exposure. Although the testing effect is among the most robust findings in cognitive science, much of its empirical support is from laboratory studies and it has been applied as a strategy for enhancing learning in the classroom in a limited fashion. The…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Physiology, Science Instruction, Universities
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Pourdavood, Ronald G. – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2016
This qualitative and descriptive study examines the evolution of secondary preservice teachers' views on teaching and learning mathematics and science in historical and cultural contexts. Data were collected throughout participants' enrollment in a semester-long course entitled, Perspectives on Science and Mathematics, which is taken in…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Science Instruction, Cultural Context, Historical Interpretation
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Braun, Isabel; Nuckles, Matthias – Science Education, 2014
Scholarly scientific literature conveys epistemological assumptions scientists operate on. Popular scientific literature and instructional science texts deviate in their portrayal of science from these epistemological assumptions. Thus, scholarly scientific literature holds more potential for improving students' epistemological understanding…
Descriptors: Epistemology, High School Students, Journal Articles, Periodicals
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Offerdahl, Erika G.; Montplaisir, Lisa – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2014
Formative assessment has long been identified as a critical element to teaching for conceptual development in science. It is therefore important for university instructors to have an arsenal of formative assessment tools at their disposal which enable them to effectively uncover and diagnose all students' thinking, not just the most vocal or…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Student Evaluation, College Science, Science Instruction
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Dowd, Jason E.; Araujo, Ives; Mazur, Eric – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2015
Although confusion is generally perceived to be negative, educators dating as far back as Socrates, who asked students to question assumptions and wrestle with ideas, have challenged this notion. Can confusion be productive? How should instructors interpret student expressions of confusion? During two semesters of introductory physics that…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Introductory Courses, Physics, Teaching Methods
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Ødegaard, Marianne; Haug, Berit; Mork, Sonja M.; Sørvik, Gard Ove – International Journal of Science Education, 2014
In the Budding Science and Literacy project, we explored how working with an integrated inquiry-based science and literacy approach may challenge and support the teaching and learning of science at the classroom level. By studying the inter-relationship between multiple learning modalities and phases of inquiry, we wished to illuminate possible…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Inquiry, Literacy, Teaching Methods
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