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William C. Beckerson; Jennifer Anderson; Siddhesh Kulkarni; John Perpich; Deborah R. Yoder-Himes – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2024
Active learning is the new standard for teaching in higher education. As more faculty seek to expand their teaching practices by including active-learning activities that promote higher levels of learning, many are doing so in small doses by temporarily postponing traditional lectures in favor of group activities. While there is evidence…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Biology, Science Instruction, Thinking Skills
Nesra Yannier; Scott E. Hudson; Henry Chang; Kenneth R. Koedinger – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2024
Adaptivity in advanced learning technologies offer the possibility to adapt to different student backgrounds, which is difficult to do in a traditional classroom setting. However, there are mixed results on the effectiveness of adaptivity based on different implementations and contexts. In this paper, we introduce AI adaptivity in the context of a…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software, Feedback (Response), Outcomes of Education
Danielle Jo Malone – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This research seeks to understand how secondary science students make space for themselves in the classroom. Specifically, this study examines the interplay between classroom structures and students' agentic negotiations while identifying the relationship between students' enacted agency and their authored science identities by drawing from a…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Science Instruction, Decision Making, Teaching Methods
Beckerson, William C.; Anderson, Jennifer O.; Perpich, John D.; Yoder-Himes, Debbie – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2020
With calls to reassess higher education teaching methods, active learning practices have quickly become a popular alternative to traditional lectures, especially in STEM courses that traditionally rely heavily on large-lecture formats. In this regard, active learning environments stand to better prepare students for life after college; however,…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Personality Traits, Student Characteristics, Extraversion Introversion
Kasey A. Karen; Bruce A. Snyder; Rich Adams – American Biology Teacher, 2024
Growing evidence has come to suggest that model-based inquiry can improve student learning outcomes and attitudes toward STEM in the biological sciences and beyond. In our introductory biology laboratory course that focuses on cellular and molecular biology, we introduced model-based inquiry (MBI) labs to create a more student-focused course that…
Descriptors: Biology, Laboratory Experiments, Science Instruction, Undergraduate Students
Lewis, Elizabeth – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
Case studies of two biology teachers, Cathy and David, from the same minority-majority, urban U.S. high school, provide insights into their instructional practices while they engaged in long-term professional development (PD). Findings suggest why science teachers engaged with PD may, or may not, adopt more adaptive pedagogical approaches in the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Biology, Science Teachers, Professional Identity
Gorman, Connor – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The effect of class size on student learning has numerous policy implications and has been a major subject of conversation and research for decades. Despite this, few studies have been done on class size in the context of university settings or physics courses. This dissertation helps address that gap in the literature by quantitatively analyzing…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Grades (Scholastic), Introductory Courses
Songsil, Wilaiwan; Pongsophon, Pongprapan; Boonsoong, Boonsatien; Clarke, Anthony – Asia-Pacific Science Education, 2019
Scientific argumentation skills are important for students for expressing their opinions, making decisions and solving problems in daily life. Previous studies have focused on students' scientific argumentation skills, but few studies have proposed an instructional model for specifically developing these skills by creating a supportive classroom…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Foreign Countries, Grade 10, Inquiry
Fear of Negative Evaluation and Student Anxiety in Community College Active-Learning Science Courses
Downing, Virginia R.; Cooper, Katelyn M.; Cala, Jacqueline M.; Gin, Logan E.; Brownell, Sara E. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2020
Student anxiety is a growing concern for colleges and universities. As science classrooms transition from traditional lecture to active learning, researchers have sought to understand how active learning affects undergraduate anxiety. However, although community colleges educate nearly half of all undergraduates, no studies have explored the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Anxiety, Lecture Method
Lashawn A. Mcneil – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this study was to examine how small groups of students in an introductory undergraduate chemistry course construct CERs and the influence of race, gender, and perceived status during this construction. The small groups of students engaged in three chemistry activities that required them to generate a claim, evidence, and reasoning…
Descriptors: Race, Gender Differences, Chemistry, Science Instruction
Lin, Xiao-Fan; Tang, Dandan; Shen, Weipeng; Liang, Zhong-Mei; Tang, Yaner; Tsai, Chin-Chung – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
This study examines the correlations between perceived technology-assisted teacher support; student hardiness (i.e. individual commitment, challenge, and control); and technology-embedded scientific inquiry (TESI) using a mediational model approach. Data were gathered from the series of questionnaires administered to 1566 Chinese students with an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Uses in Education, Scientific Research, Student Characteristics
Riedl, Ann; Yeung, Fan; Burke, Tina – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2021
Active learning has been shown to improve student learning and engagement in many 4-year institutions; however, large-scale studies on the efficacy of active learning in community colleges are lacking. In this study, we investigate the effects of active learning in a first semester majors' general biology course at a large, suburban community…
Descriptors: Flipped Classroom, Teaching Methods, Active Learning, Biology
Raven, Sara; Cevik, Emel; Model, Michael – American Biology Teacher, 2020
Although research and new technologies have introduced different ways of observing microorganisms, including scanning and electron microscopy, these methods are expensive and require equipment that is typically not found in a middle school classroom. The transmission-through-dye technique (TTD; Gregg et al., 2010), a new optical microscopy method…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Biology, Middle School Students
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
What Works Clearinghouse, 2021
Inquiry-based science interventions aim to improve students' science proficiency by helping them understand scientific processes. In these interventions, students conduct hands-on investigations of science concepts and everyday phenomena, construct explanations for what they observe, consider alternative explanations, and communicate and justify…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Intervention, Teaching Methods, Inquiry
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