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Cikmaz, Ali; Fulmer, Gavin; Yaman, Fatma; Hand, Brian – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2021
Language and argument are epistemic tools that learners can use to help them generate and validate knowledge for themselves, as emphasized in NGSS and previous NRC reports. Not all learning environments elicit or support the use of these epistemic tools equally, thus affecting how students grow in competence in relation to their use. The present…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Comparative Analysis, Educational Environment, Persuasive Discourse
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Khishfe, Rola – International Journal of Science Education, 2022
This study investigated the effect of explicit nature of science (NOS) instruction and explicit argumentation instruction in socioscientific and scientific contexts, on students' NOS conceptions and their argumentation skills. Undergraduate students enrolled in two sections of a science content course were assigned into two groups: Socioscientific…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Persuasive Discourse, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes
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Khishfe, Rola – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2021
The study investigated how explicit instruction of argumentation-in the context of socioscientific issues (SSI)- and explicit instruction of NOS, compared with explicit instruction of argumentation only, can develop grade 10 students' argumentation skills and NOS conceptions. Participants were 36 grade 10 students enrolled in two sections that…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Principles, Teaching Methods, Persuasive Discourse
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Kacar, Sevinç; Balim, Ali Günay – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2021
This study aimed to determine the effects of the argument-driven inquiry learning method on students' conceptual learning in science education. The study is conducted with embedded mixed-methods research design from mixed research methods. The study was conducted with 64 7th-grade students consisting of 31 students in the experimental group and 33…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, Science Instruction, Concept Formation
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Kizkapan, Oktay; Bektas, Oktay – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
This study has two aims. The first is to determine the effect of argumentation and epistemologically enriched argumentation on academic achievement. The second is to determine students' opinions about the effect of the integration of argumentation and epistemologically enriched argumentation into the teaching process on academic achievement. In…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Grade 7, Science Curriculum, Comparative Analysis
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Cappellaro, Evren; Seban, Demet – Electronic Journal for Research in Science & Mathematics Education, 2021
This study investigates the preservice elementary teachers' ability to use the components of an argument structure on a given science topic as well as the quality of the developed argument during their sophomore and senior year. In doing so, the study also aimed to discuss the effect of teacher education programs on the development of…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Preservice Teachers, Misconceptions, Elementary School Teachers
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Yacoubian, Hagop A.; Khishfe, Rola – International Journal of Science Education, 2018
The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast between two theoretical frameworks for addressing nature of science (NOS) and socioscientific issues (SSI) in school science. These frameworks are critical thinking (CT) and argumentation (AR). For the past years, the first and second authors of this paper have pursued research in this area…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Persuasive Discourse, Guidelines, Comparative Analysis
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Lin, C.-H.; Chiu, C.-H.; Hsu, C.-C.; Wang, T.-I.; Chen, C.-H. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2018
This study proposed a computerized inquiry-stage-dependent argumentation assistance and investigated whether this can help improve elementary students' performance in science processes and the construction of quality arguments. Various argumentation assistances were developed and incorporated into each stage of scientific inquiry in a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Science Process Skills, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction
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Nichols, Kim; Gillies, Robyn; Hedberg, John – Research in Science Education, 2016
This study explored the impact of argumentation-promoting collaborative inquiry and representational work in science on primary students' representational fluency. Two hundred sixty-six year 6 students received instruction on natural disasters with a focus on collaborative inquiry. Students in the Comparison condition received only this…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Science Education, Science Instruction, Inquiry
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Van den Eynde, Sofie; van Kampen, Paul; Van Dooren, Wim; De Cock, Mieke – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2019
We report on a study investigating the influence of context, direction of translation, and function type on undergraduate students' ability to translate between graphical and symbolic representations of mathematical relations. Students from an algebra-based and a calculus-based physics course were asked to solve multiple-choice items in which they…
Descriptors: Graphs, Equations (Mathematics), Mathematics Instruction, Physics
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Wright, Katherine Landau; Hodges, Tracey S.; Zimmer, Wendi K.; McTigue, Erin M. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2019
Although many agree that writing can make a unique contribution to learning, harnessing that contribution is difficult, particularly in the middle grades. The purpose of this study was to measure the efficacy of a feasible writing-to-learn intervention in Grade 6-11 science classes. We focused on middle school students because this group has been…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Middle School Students, Scientific Literacy, Writing Instruction
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Eymur, Guluzar – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2019
The aim of the present study was to investigate the influence of the explicit nature of science instruction embedded in the Argument-Driven Inquiry method compared with an implicit inquiry method on eleventh grade students' conceptions of NOS. The study used a pre-/post-test control group design to investigate the influence of the explicit nature…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Principles, Persuasive Discourse, High School Students
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Christenson, Nina; Gericke, Niklas; Rundgren, Shu-Nu Chang – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2017
Researchers and policy-makers have recognized the importance of including and promoting socioscientific argumentation in science education worldwide. The Swedish curriculum focuses more than ever on socioscientific issues (SSI) as well. However, teaching socioscientific argumentation is not an easy task for science teachers and one of the more…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Secondary School Science, Secondary School Teachers, Secondary School Students
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Jang, Jeong-yoon; Hand, Brian – Research in Science Education, 2017
This study investigated the value of using a scaffolded critique framework to promote two different types of writing--argumentative writing and explanatory writing--with different purposes within an argument-based inquiry approach known as the Science Writing Heuristic (SWH) approach. A quasi-experimental design with sixth and seventh grade…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Persuasive Discourse, Writing Assignments
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Ibrahim Erdogan; Ayse Ciftci; Mustafa Sami Topcu – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2017
In this research the argumentation levels of the 5th, 6th and 7th grade students and the questions of the teachers and students were examined. The sample group of the research was selected according to the homogeneous sampling method. This research is a descriptive research. The data were collected by using a voice recorder. The data of this…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Comparative Analysis, Persuasive Discourse
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