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Huinan Liu; Bo Chen; Sihui Huang; Songting Yao; Wenqi Zhao; Ziyin Li – Science & Education, 2025
The diversity of scientific methods has received widespread attention and recognition in recent years. Brandon's Matrix illustrated four categories of scientific methods, which was applied to establish the analytical framework of this study. This paper adopted content analysis to investigate how the diversity of scientific methods is represented…
Descriptors: Science Education, Chemistry, Scientific Methodology, Foreign Countries
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A. C. Cooper; J. B. Osness; S. D. Hester; M. S. Bolger – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2024
Undergraduate laboratory courses can provide opportunities for students to participate in science practices. This requires rethinking both curricula and instruction. Science practice--based courses require students to be positioned as epistemic agents, implying a shift in instructor role. Teaching assistants (TAs) are the primary instructors for…
Descriptors: Teaching Assistants, Science Laboratories, Science Instruction, Science Process Skills
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Librea-Carden, Mila Rosa; Mulvey, Bridget K. – Research in Science Education, 2023
Limited research examines the critical intersection between science and special education (SPED), particularly on the nature of science (NOS) in science methods courses. This study addresses this gap by investigating 10 preservice SPED teachers' NOS understanding, NOS implications for SPED, and the integration of NOS into their lesson plans in a…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Intention
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Ward, Meghan; Rawle, Fiona – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2022
Several predominant themes have emerged during the COVID-19 global pandemic that intersect with the nature and process of science. This paper identifies three such themes and briefly explores how they can be used as case studies and narrative cornerstones in teaching and learning. The themes include: (1) the understanding that science is…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Science Process Skills, COVID-19
Kadish, Theresa – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation asks how to improve science education and science communication, and suggests that digital storytelling techniques can be used to better engage learners in the process of knowledge making. Digital storytelling refers to both the use of high-quality digital media content as learning materials, and also to the use of social…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Story Telling, STEM Education, Teaching Methods
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Cha, Jeongho; Kan, Su-Yin; Chia, Poh Wai; Chia, Poh San – Asian Journal of University Education, 2022
One of the challenges that science teachers face is the lack of strategy/method to train students in data collection and developing analytical skills, which are pre-requisites to resolve socio-scientific problems and an important element in scientific literacy. In this activity, the SWOT analysis proposed by the Stanford Research Institute in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Methodology, Scientific Methodology, Data Collection
Caroline W. Stabile – ProQuest LLC, 2021
There is a call in science education for students to be in the business of "doing science," rather than "doing the lesson" (Jimenez-Aleixandre et al., 2000). Developing explanatory models is one important strategy for sensemaking in science. Teachers' knowledge plays a critical role in how classroom interactions are framed and…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Science Education, Science Instruction, Modeling (Psychology)
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Guerra, Genaina Fernandes; Noll, Matias – International Journal of Instruction, 2021
This study evaluated how the process of teaching scientific methodology occurs in technical courses in integrated high schools. The qualitative case study was conducted through documentary analysis (based on regulations and pedagogical projects) and semi-structured interviews with teachers (n=7), coordinators (n=3), and students (n=16) of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Science, High School Teachers, Science Instruction
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Koomen, Michele Hollingsworth; Barron, Hillary A.; Hoffman, Alissa; Rodriguez, Elizabeth – Science Educator, 2019
This study explores how two middle school teachers utilized elements of scientific inquiry, including the higher sense making skills such as data analysis, interpretation, and drawing conclusions to engage their students in the processes of doing science. Using qualitative research methods, our case study situates the analysis within the macro and…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Inquiry
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Piergiovanni, Polly R.; Goundie, David A. – Chemical Engineering Education, 2019
Chemical engineering is a challenging field to explain to first-year students. Food production processes are a safe and accessible way to introduce the students to basic engineering concepts. Modernist cuisine -- using scientific methods and engineering techniques to enhance classical cooking -- was used as a hook to capture the attention of…
Descriptors: Chemical Engineering, College Science, Food, Scientific Concepts
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Griggs, Richard A.; Bartels, Jared M. – Psychology Teaching Review, 2019
Although the Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) has been challenged on methodological, theoretical, and ethical grounds, these criticisms have been largely ignored by teachers and textbook authors. Recent revelations arising from an analysis of the SPE archival materials, however, not only strongly support these past criticisms but also question the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Science Process Skills, Scientific Methodology
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Gilles, Brent; Buck, Gayle – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2019
Fostering students' ability to engage in scientific argumentation is an essential component of science teaching.. Unfortunately, research shows that teachers often lack sufficient prior experiences. As teacher educators, we sought to better understand how to effectively provide such critical experiences. Furthermore, we wanted to understand how…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Higher Education, Science Teachers, Science Instruction
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Kazempour, Mahsa – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2018
The current study aimed to provide elementary preservice teachers with an opportunity to engage in an authentic inquiry experience that shifted the focus from the hypothesis-testing model of inquiry to one that more accurately and completely reflected the process of scientific inquiry in its entirety. The aim of this qualitative case study was to…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Preservice Teachers, Inquiry, Reflection
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Das, Pabi Maya; Faikhamta, Chatree; Punsuvon, Vittaya – Science Education International, 2018
This study investigated the development of Bhutanese students' views of the nature of science (NOS) as they engaged in an explicit and reflective approach. Seven aspects of NOS were integrated into the chemistry content in two learning units titled "matter and its composition" and "study of gas laws" over a time span of 6 weeks…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 9, Secondary School Students, Scientific Principles
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Held, Lubomir – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
Avogadro's conception of the structure of gases was not widely accepted by his contemporaries--probably because the hypothesis was not supported by direct evidence. This problem is rarely addressed in schools. This article discusses the difficulties that accompany the acceptance of new ideas. Such difficulties may be associated with the ways in…
Descriptors: Hypothesis Testing, Scientific Methodology, Science History, Scientific Concepts
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