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Maricic, Mirjana; Cvjeticanin, Stanko; Adamov, Jasna; Ninkovic, Stanislava Olic; Andic, Branko – Research in Science Education, 2023
This study aimed to examine whether withholding answers coupled with physical manipulation of material strengthened by the self-explanation effect (SEE) contribute to the development of a deeper conceptual understanding and retention of learning about motion content in a hands-on (HO) learning environment. The correlation between students'…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Direct Instruction, Hands on Science, Concept Formation
Prain, Vaughan; Xu, Lihua; Speldewinde, Christopher – Research in Science Education, 2023
There is a long tradition of teaching science through inquiry, with broad agreement about the form it should take. Students should investigate researchable questions; gather and analyse data; and develop and represent evidence-based claims. Authoritative teacher or textbook representations are generally used to guide this learning (Buckley &…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Inquiry
Maricic, Mirjana; Cvjeticanin, Stanko; Andevski, Milica; Andic, Branko – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2023
Background: The question of the efficiency of withholding answers and the physical manipulation of material in science education has become the target of a large number of researchers (proponents of the Cognitive Load Theory) in recent years. However, no research has been found examining the contribution of these elements of teaching to the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Magnets, Manipulative Materials, Scientific Concepts
Khishfe, Rola – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
The study aimed to investigate the retention of acquired argumentation and NOS conceptions among grade 10 students three months after the treatment. Thirty-six grade 10 students in two intact sections, randomly assigned into the Treatment and Comparison groups, participated in the study. The participants engaged in a treatment that lasted for four…
Descriptors: Retention (Psychology), Persuasive Discourse, Skill Development, Scientific Principles
Mamombe, Charles; Mathabathe, Kgadi C.; Gaigher, Estelle – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2020
A qualitative pre-/post-test case study was conducted to explore the influence of inquiry-based education in eliciting learners' understanding of the particulate nature of matter in the gaseous phase. Two grade four classes (n=116) were conveniently and purposively sampled from two farm schools in Pretoria, South Africa. Data was collected through…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Inquiry, Grade 4, Elementary School Students
Ping, Irene Lue Leh; Halim, Lilia; Osman, Kamisah – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2020
Scence educational standards are increasingly emphasising on argumentation skills. However, students' argumentation skills are often not developed well as their experience of science knowledge in schools is often in the form of uncontested facts. This research asserts that argumentation skills should be developed through explicit teaching of…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Persuasive Discourse, Science Process Skills, Skill Development
Susman, Katarina; Pavlin, Jerneja – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2020
Literature review shows that many primary school teachers have poor understanding of basic astronomy contents. Therefore, the aim of the study was to introduce specific astronomical content to in-service primary school teachers through two didactic games, to evaluate the didactic games and the teachers' knowledge and understanding before and after…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Astronomy, Concept Formation
Ton de Jong; Ard W. Lazonder; Clark A. Chinn; Frank Fisher; Janice Gobert; Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver; Ken R. Koedinger; Joseph S. Krajcik; Eleni A. Kyza; Marcia C. Linn; Margus Pedaste; Katharina Scheiter; Zacharias C. Zacharia – Grantee Submission, 2023
Many studies investigating inquiry learning in science domains have appeared over the years. Throughout this period, inquiry learning has been regularly criticized by scholars who favor direct instruction over inquiry learning. In this vein, Zhang, Kirschner, Cobern, and Sweller (2022) recently asserted that direct instruction is overall superior…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Direct Instruction, Inquiry, Active Learning
Kerstiens, Geri Anne – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Recently, there have been many calls for an increase in instruction on the nature of science (NOS) in schools (i.e. NRC, 1996; NGSS Lead States, 2013). These calls recognize the importance of this topic at all levels of science education, but there is little guidance in terms of how to address it effectively in curricula. Similarly, there have…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Science Instruction, Chemistry, Science Laboratories
Weaver, Joanna P. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This study tested the hypothesis that exploratory learning, with and without analogous problems, would improve students' ability to make connections between conceptually-related topics. In this randomized experiment, undergraduates in introductory physics (N = 171) studied a new topic under three different instructional conditions. Order and type…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Science Instruction, College Science, Physics
Zoupidis, Anastasios; Spyrtou, Anna; Pnevmatikos, Dimitris; Kariotoglou, Petros – Themes in eLearning, 2018
In the present paper, we have examined the impact of explicit linkage between simulated (i.e., virtual) and real (i.e., physical) experimental settings in order to scaffold conceptual understanding, in the case of floating and sinking (F/S) phenomena explanations. This research is part of a research-based curriculum project and has been…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Science Experiments, Science Instruction, Concept Formation
Wang, Jeremy Yi-Ming – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This dissertation examines the thesis that implicit learning plays a role in learning about scientific phenomena, and subsequently, in conceptual change. Decades of research in learning science demonstrate that a primary challenge of science education is overcoming prior, naive knowledge of natural phenomena in order to gain scientific…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Science Education, Science Process Skills, Intuition
Murphy, Danny R. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Teachers' beliefs shape their daily instruction and the materials presented to students. The personal views of educators are especially relevant when socioscientific issues are involved. Preservice and novice teachers' mastery of the nature of science (NOS) and personal beliefs in and out of the classroom influence their worldviews and classroom…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Preservice Teachers, Beginning Teachers, Concept Formation
Horiguchi, Tomoya; Tomoto, Takahito; Hirashima, Tsukasa – Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning, 2015
In science education, conventional problem practice hardly helps students reach "conceptual understanding" with which they can solve various problems by making appropriate models of target systems. Students often superficially read the solution of a problem and apply it wrongly to others without understanding the model. It is difficult…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Problem Solving, Models, Guidelines
Chase, Catherine C.; Klahr, David – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2017
An important, but as yet unresolved pedagogical question is whether discovery-oriented or direct instruction methods lead to greater learning and transfer. We address this issue in a study with 101 fourth and fifth grade students that contrasts two distinct instructional methods. One is a blend of discovery and direct instruction called…
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Direct Instruction, Grade 4, Grade 5
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