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Muhammed Said Akar; Sema Altun Yalçin; Pasa Yalçin; Meryem Özturan Sagirli – European Journal of Physics Education, 2022
In this study, it is aimed to investigate the effect of the Context-based Instruction Applications, prepared using verbal problems with real-life content and scenarios, on the level of pre-service teachers' learning areas of "heat and temperature" and "movement and force" and their level of creating contexts in daily life. The…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Heat, Climate, Teaching Methods
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Mallidis-Malessas, Panos; Iatraki, Georgia; Mikropoulos, Tassos Anastasios – Journal of Special Education Technology, 2022
Digital Learning Objects (DLOs) as pedagogical complete structures of learning content contribute to science education. DLOs especially in the form of interactive simulations seem to be promising tools in physics teaching and learning for students with intellectual disabilities (ID). This study used an AB single subject design to evaluate the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Intellectual Disability, Students with Disabilities
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Bani, Marsi; Masruddin, Masruddin – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2021
Research has been conducted to develop a physics learning media in the form of an Android-based pocket book. We designed a Harmonic Oscillation Pocket Book and tested its feasibility and effectiveness in improving the cognitive learning outcomes of students. This study used the research and development method adapted from the ADDIE model. The…
Descriptors: High School Students, Secondary School Science, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Seven, Sabriye; Koksal, Asiye Pinar; Kocak, Gulsen – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of writing poems and keeping a journal as writing-to-learn activities on the academic achievement of students in teaching the Force and Motion unit in the Science class of fifth grade students in secondary school. Sample of the study consists of 50 students who study in the fifth grade of two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Effectiveness, Poetry, Journal Writing
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Steinberg, Richard; Cormier, Sebastien – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2013
This study reports on a content course for science immersion teacher candidates that emphasized authentic practice of science and thinking scientifically in the context of introductory astrophysics. We explore how 122 science teacher candidates spanning three cohorts did and did not reason scientifically and how this evolved in our program. Our…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Course Content, Motion
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Suppapittayaporn, Decha; Emarat, Narumon; Arayathanitkul, Kwan – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2010
This study proposed to investigate the effectiveness of learning activities based on a conceptual change theoretical framework by embedding a peer instruction method with structured inquiry (PISI) on tenth grade students' understanding of force and motion concepts. This teaching method was compared to the existing traditional instruction (TI).…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Standardized Tests, Physics, Motion
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Lynch, Collin F., Ed.; Merceron, Agathe, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Nkambou, Roger, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
The 12th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2019) is organized under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society in Montreal, Canada. The theme of this year's conference is EDM in Open-Ended Domains. As EDM has matured it has increasingly been applied to open-ended and ill-defined tasks…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Information Retrieval, Content Analysis
Inverness Research, 2008
Inverness Research studied the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) Seminars on Science program for eight years, from its inception in 1998 to 2006. This paper presents teacher survey ratings for Space, Time and Motion, along with profiles of three teachers who took the course. Course takers report on the annual follow-up surveys that Space,…
Descriptors: Motion, Special Education Teachers, Urban Schools, Astronomy