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Öberg, Gunilla; Campbell, Alice; Fox, Joanne; Graves, Marcia; Ivanochko, Tara; Matsuchi, Linda; Mouat, Isobel; Welsh, Ashley – Science & Education, 2022
The widespread misperception of science as a deliverer of irrefutable facts, rather than a deliberative process, is undermining public trust in science. Science education therefore needs to better support students' understanding of the central role that disputes play in the scientific process. Successfully incorporating scientific disputes into…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, College Freshmen, Scientific Concepts, Science Process Skills
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Jessica D. Young; Betül Demirdögen; Christopher F. Bauer; Scott E. Lewis – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2025
Peer-led team learning is a socially mediated pedagogy where trained peer leaders, students who have completed a course, return to lead students in groups within a targeted course. The effect of peer-led team learning to improve student success in chemistry has been extensively documented but it is unclear if it is just as effective at…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Peer Teaching
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Esther Kataate Namakula; Valarie L. Akerson – Journal of Education in Science, Environment and Health, 2024
The study explored the impact of peer critiquing on preservice teachers' understanding of the nature of science, scientific inquiry, and argumentation in an undergraduate science content course. The aim was to investigate innovative teaching strategies that enhance preservice teachers' comprehension of these key aspects. This study showcased…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Science Process Skills, Inquiry, Preservice Teachers
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Obaid, Teeba; Nesbit, John C.; Mahmoody Ghaidary, Ahmad; Jain, Misha; Hajian, Shiva – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2023
Understanding scientific phenomena requires learners to construct mental models of causal systems. Simulation-based discovery learning offers learners the opportunity to construct mental models and test them against the behavior of a simulation. The purpose of this study was to investigate sequential patterns of learner actions and utterances…
Descriptors: Inferences, Simulation, Discovery Learning, Science Education
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Arik, Merve; Topçu, Mustafa Sami – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2022
Studies maintain that computational thinking (CT) is associated with science content and scientific processes as well as with many disciplines. It is thought that designing teaching processes in which science and CT processes take place together makes science learning more meaningful. With this in mind, in this study, the researchers integrated…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Science Process Skills, Science Education
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Wright, Lyniesha Chanell; Oliver-Hoyo, Maria Theresa – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2020
The mental models students have after engaging in an activity designed to teach infrared (IR) spectroscopy without reliance on IR absorption tables, were characterized. Qualitative analysis of semi-structured interviews, through open coding, allowed the classification of the mental models as Molecules as Dynamic (MAD), Bonds as Dynamic (BAD),…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Spectroscopy, Schemata (Cognition), Molecular Structure
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Keiner, Liz; Graulich, Nicole – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2021
Understanding ongoing chemical processes in the laboratory requires constant shifting between different representational levels--the macroscopic, submicroscopic, and symbolic levels--and analysis of the various mechanistic features of each of these levels. Thus, the ability to explain observations of chemical phenomena with regard to their…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Science Instruction, Laboratory Training, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
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Saka, Arzu – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2019
Photosynthesis is the most effective cycle and sustainable natural process known in nature. Students who learn the subject of photosynthesis well will also make better sense of other issues such as environmental problems, the state of the atmosphere, greenhouse gases, climate changes, carbon footprints and conservation of forests. The aim of this…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Biology, Botany
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Antonio, Ronilo P.; Prudente, Maricar S. – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2021
Developing and communicating evidence-based explanations are regarded as essential skills in 21st-century learning. These skills are central to the process of scientific argumentation. Hence, teachers must adhere to a student-centered pedagogy that cultivates students' understanding and argumentation skills. This study investigated the effects of…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Active Learning, Inquiry, Persuasive Discourse
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Kapucu, Serkan; Kizilaslan, Aydin – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2022
Assistive technologies are frequently used to help disabled students to access core and expanded core curricula and to improve their functional, communication and literacy skills. Non-optical low vision devices and optical and tactile graphics technologies are some of the assistive technologies used by visually impaired students in today's…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Visual Impairments, Braille, Assistive Technology
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McHugh, Luisa; Kelly, Angela M.; Fisher, Jacqueline Horan; Burghardt, M. David – Research in Science Education, 2021
This study evaluated the effectiveness of the Mathematics Infusion into Science Project (MiSP), which integrated science and mathematics in an engaging middle school science curriculum that fostered improvements in science content knowledge, higher-level problem solving, and affective domains related to mathematics. The project design was based…
Descriptors: Graphs, Mathematics Skills, Middle School Students, Science Process Skills
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Bhattacharya, Devarati; Carroll Steward, Kim; Forbes, Cory T. – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
In this mixed method study, we analyse the effectiveness of two pedagogical approaches -- one model-based and another non-model-based -- for developing secondary students' understanding of the phenomenon of increase in Earth's average surface temperatures, a core dimension of global climate change (GCC). Building on past research on teaching and…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Secondary School Science, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation
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Stenlund, Jörgen Ingemar; Schönborn, Konrad Janek; Tibell, Lena Anna Elisabet – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2021
Central to evolution is the concept of a common ancestry from which all life has emerged over immense time scales, but learning and teaching temporal aspects of evolution remain challenging. This study investigated students' interpretation of evolutionary time when engaging with a multi-touch tabletop application called DeepTree, a dynamic…
Descriptors: Evolution, Time, Scientific Concepts, Computer Oriented Programs
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Yilmaz, Gul; Bulunuz, Mizrap – Online Submission, 2019
The aim of this study is to determine the effect of formative assessment based learning on students' conceptual understanding levels regarding basic astronomical concepts. The study was conducted in a public primary school with 24 5th graders. The study group was applied a 3 phased teaching process based on formative assessment for the duration of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Student Evaluation, Formative Evaluation
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Cengiz, Ekrem – Journal of Inquiry Based Activities, 2018
This study aims to determine the effects of activities based on the Prediction-Observation-Explanation [POE] strategy on sixth grade students' understanding of the particulate nature of matter. The study was carried out with a sixth grade group consisting of 41 students from a middle school in an eastern city. Three activities were carried out…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Science Activities, Scientific Concepts
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