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Linda Hämmerle; Daniela Hlavka; Michael Kiehn; Peter Pany; Peter Lampert – American Biology Teacher, 2024
Especially within the light of the current loss of biodiversity, we want our students to gain a better understanding of the issues at stake in order to take action and support plants and their pollinators. Many educational approaches focus on honeybees, disregarding the vast diversity in the context of pollination systems and the complex…
Descriptors: Biodiversity, Plants (Botany), Teaching Methods, Scientific Concepts
Marek Vydra; Jozef Kovácik – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
We investigated the effect of short-term teaching (3 weeks) using image analysis on gymnasium/secondary school students' (ISCED3A) skills (science process skills, SPS) and knowledge using Fiji (ImageJ) software. The theoretical teaching was combined with IT-based education (measurement of the area or signal intensity on photos from scientific…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Biology, Botany
Musa Mohammed Sulaiman; Ganiyu Bello; Isaac Olakanmi Abimbola – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Sciences, 2024
This research explored the impact of analogies and metaphors on the academic performance of senior school students in genetics within Ilorin, Nigeria. Three research questions and corresponding hypotheses were formulated and tested at a significance level of 0.05. A quasi-experimental design was used, involving 117 senior secondary school…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Teaching Methods, Academic Achievement, High School Seniors
Ali Yildiz – Online Submission, 2023
The aim of the study is to reveal physics teachers' views on constants in teaching physics subjects that include physical constants. The phenomenology approach, one of the qualitative research designs, was used in the study. The study group consists of a total of 10 physics teachers, 2 female and 8 male, working in five public high schools in two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Teachers, Physics, High School Teachers
Fuwa Yoshioka; Masato Takada; Rui Itoh; Airi Uzawa; Junpei Hayakawa – Journal of Chemical Education, 2024
Xerogels, exemplified by silica gel, are substances formed by drying gels, resulting in a loss of their internal solvents. Understanding the production and properties of xerogels is crucial, owing to their widespread applications. Xerogel chemistry is widely utilized in several substances; therefore, understanding this chemistry is extremely…
Descriptors: Synthesis, Handwriting, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
Thomas Schubatzky; Claudia Haagen-Schützenhöfer; Rainer Wackermann; Carina Wöhlke; Sarah Wildbichler – Science Education, 2024
The greenhouse effect is a complex scientific phenomenon that plays a crucial role in understanding climate change. Grasping students' understanding of this phenomenon on the content-specific level but also how students' conceptions are organized is vital for effective climate change education. This study addresses both levels and delves into the…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 11, Secondary School Science, Science Instruction
Giulotto, Enrico; Malgieri, Massimiliano – Physics Education, 2022
The distinction between pressure in a liquid and in a gas is often treated in a cursory way, or not treated at all, even in university level textbooks. Most texts fail to point out the relation between pressure and density in a gas as compared to pressure in a--virtually incompressible--liquid. In many instances this also results in a dismissive…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, College Science, Secondary School Science, Teaching Methods
Kamphorst, Floor; Vollebregt, M. J.; Savelsbergh, E. R.; van Joolingen, W. R. – Science & Education, 2023
Einstein's derivation of special relativity theory (SRT), based on hypothetical reasoning and thought experiments, is regarded as a prime example of physics theory development. In secondary education, the introduction of SRT could provide a great opportunity for students to engage in physics theorizing, but this opportunity is largely being missed…
Descriptors: Physics, Scientific Concepts, Secondary School Science, Science Education
Fabian Hennig; Kristóf Tóth; Joaquin Veith; Philipp Bitzenbauer – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Evidence from physics education research suggests that the introduction of a formalistic description of quantum phenomena can be beneficial to student learning, particularly in terms of helping students move away from naive realist views of quanta or space-time descriptions of quantum phenomena. However, the mathematical requirements for mastering…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Quantum Mechanics, Physics, Equations (Mathematics)
Tara Barnhart; Elizabeth A. van Es – School Science and Mathematics, 2023
This study investigates challenges of enactment teachers notice when analyzing artifacts of teaching in a professional development focused on supporting the enactment of NGSS-aligned modeling instruction. Five secondary science teachers participated in a semester-long video club. Transcripts of the segments of their meetings in which they analyzed…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Instruction, Secondary School Teachers, Secondary School Science
Craig D. Campbell; Malcolm I. Stewart – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
The reduction of nitroarenes to anilines is a key transformation with real-life context, central to the preparation of many important fine chemicals. The importance of this transformation has led to its inclusion in not only university organic chemistry courses but also preuniversity, especially in Europe. A variety of reagent combinations have…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Chemistry, Scientific Concepts, Foreign Countries
Students' Conceptions of Science Learning before and after the Pandemic Outbreak: A Drawing Analysis
Wei-Shou Chen; Chin-Chung Tsai; Hsin-Yi Chang – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2025
This study investigated students' conceptions of science learning before and after the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak via drawing analysis. A total of 521 Taiwanese students in 7th, 9th, and 11th grades were asked to illustrate how they conceptualized science learning in an actual and ideal context. A coding checklist was developed to analyze the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Science, Secondary School Students, COVID-19
Martin Schwichow; Anastasios Zoupidis – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
Floating and sinking (FS) is a key topic in science education, both at primary and secondary levels. The interpretation of FS phenomena, however, is challenging due to the difficulty of the scientific concepts and explanatory models involved (e.g., density, buoyancy), along with students' everyday experiences, which conflict with scientific…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Science Education, Meta Analysis, Effect Size
Adu-Gyamfi, Kenneth; Elikem Vorsah, Rejoice – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2022
A good number of instructional strategies are identified to help students overcome their learning difficulties in the mole concept. However, Ghanaian senior high school students continue to have difficulties in the mole concept. Hence, there was the need to examine the perceived nature of learning the mole concept in the perspectives of male and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation
Thomas Kraska – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
An educational lattice model is proposed for the investigation of the influence of the density and indirectly of the pressure on the chemical equilibrium of the ideal gas phase reaction A [equilibrium] 2B. The model can be introduced by a board game simulating a stochastic process. This game can also be used to set up a corresponding computer…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Secondary School Science, Chemistry, Science Instruction