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Direct linkVoss, Sarah; Kruse, Jerrid; Kent-Schneider, Isaiah – Research in Science Education, 2022
Explicit-reflective nature of science (NOS) instruction has demonstrated a positive impact on student learning. Although explicit-reflective NOS instruction often consists of questions that draw students' attention to NOS ideas, there are few recommendations in the science education literature about how the form of these questions might inform NOS…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Science Education, Science Instruction, Scientific Methodology
Download full textDaga, Agustinus Tanggu; Wahyudin, Dinn; Susilana, Rudi – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2022
Critical thinking as a 21st-century skill is needed by students to anticipate today's global changes and is very relevant to the implementation of the elementary school curriculum in Indonesia. This research discusses the implementation of the scientific approach to improving elementary school students' critical thinking skills. This research…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Thinking Skills
Judith S. Lederman; Selina Bartels; Juan Jimenez; Norman G. Lederman; Katherine Acosta; Karina Adbo; Valarie L. Akerson; Mariana a. Bologna Soares de Andrade; Lucy Avraamidou; Kerry-Anne Barber; Estelle Blanquet; Saouma Boujaoude; Rosa Cardoso; Claire Dresslar Cesljarev; Pawat Chaipidech; Catherine Pozarski Connolly; David T. Crowther; Pabi Maya Das; Özgür Kivilcan Dogan; Ani Epitropova; Naruho Fukuda; Lichun Gai; Soraya Hamed; Cigdem Han-Tosunoglu; Gary M. Holliday; Xiao Huang; Rola Khishfe; Anna Koumara; Elianna Kraan; Jari Lavonen; Jessica Shuk Ching Leunga; Yanmei Li; Mila Rosa Librea-Carden; Cheng Liu; Shiang-Yao Liu; Kendra McMahon; Marlene Morales; Patricia D. Morrell; Irene Neumann; Jisun Park; Mafor Penn; Eric Picholle; Katerine Plakitsi; Umesh Ramnarain; Zhelyazka Raykova; Arantza Rico; Fátima Rodríguez-Marín; Aritz Ruiz-González; Carl-Johan Rundgren; Richard Deanne Sagun; Suvi Salonen; Hui Shao; Niwat Srisawasdi; Aik Ling Tan; Radu Bogdan Toma; Tshering; Zeynep Ünsal; Clara Vidal Carulla; Jana Visnovska; Frauke Voitle; Yalcin Yalaki; Hye-jin Yoo; Quianyun Zhu – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
Knowledge of scientific inquiry (SI) is considered essential to the development of an individual's Scientific Literacy (SL) and therefore, SI is included in many international science education reform documents. Two previous large scale international studies assessed the SI understandings of students entering middle school and secondary students…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes
Kranz, Johanna; Baur, Armin; Möller, Andrea – Studies in Science Education, 2023
In today's world shaped by technology and the natural sciences, knowledge and skills related to experimentation are crucial, especially given growing public debates about science-related topics. Despite a strong emphasis on experimentation in science curricula worldwide, learners still encounter diverse challenges when experimenting. This paper…
Descriptors: Science Experiments, Barriers, Scientific Methodology, Elementary Secondary Education
Boström, Lena; Sjöström, Mårten – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
In this study, we focussed on designing and evaluating a learning tool for the research process in higher education. Mastering the research process seems to be a bottleneck within the academy. Therefore, there is a great need to offer students other ways to learn this skill in addition to books and lectures. The MethodViz tool supports ubiquitous…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Instructional Materials, Scientific Methodology
Costa, V. A. F. – Physics Education, 2022
It is proposed a network approach for electric circuits simplification, that through a unified systematic procedure allows simplifying circuits of any complexity, and evaluation of the equivalent resistances, capacitors and inductors. Circuits to be simplified are characterized by their nodes, and by the elements of different types (resistances,…
Descriptors: Electronic Equipment, Networks, Matrices, Scientific Concepts
Ioannidou, Olga; Erduran, Sibel – Science & Education, 2021
Recent reforms in science education have promoted students' understanding of how science works, including the methodological approaches used by scientists. Given that teachers are expected to teach and promote methodological pluralism, it is worth examining how teachers understand and view scientific methods, particularly when scientific methods…
Descriptors: Scientific Methodology, Science Education, Science Teachers, Knowledge Level
Emden, Markus – Science & Education, 2021
There are some crucial critiques on "scientific inquiry" and "the" Scientific Method in current science education. Recent research literature is replete with arguments against inquiry's legitimacy to be included in science classes, and it has even been abandoned from the Next "Generation Science Standards." Critics of…
Descriptors: Scientific Methodology, Inquiry, Science Instruction, Authentic Learning
S. Stanley Young; Warren Kindzierski; David Randall – National Association of Scholars, 2022
"Shifting Sands: Flimsy Food Findings" examines how irreproducible science affects select areas of government policy and regulation governed by different federal agencies. This second report focuses on "Food Frequency Questionnaire" and irreproducible research in the field of nutritional epidemiology, which informs the U.S.…
Descriptors: Food, Evidence, Federal Regulation, Nutrition
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
Kari L. Lavalli; Maria E. Abate – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2024
Environmental science classes often ask students to examine changes in species or their environments to determine the human impact on a particular habitat or ecosystem. It is not always practical to take students out for a field study to do this kind of analysis; instead, the scientific method and diversity analyses can be utilized while students…
Descriptors: Art, Ecology, Scientific Concepts, Environmental Education
Bo Chen; Huinan Liu; Yufeng Xu; Qi Yang; Hui Wu; Ziyin Li – Journal of Chemical Education, 2024
The diversity of scientific methods has received widespread recognition in recent years. The purpose of this review is to analyze the changes in the representation of laboratory work in Chinese senior high school chemistry textbooks in the past 30 years from the perspective of the diversity of scientific methods. This study was based on Brandon's…
Descriptors: Textbook Evaluation, High School Seniors, Scientific Methodology, Textbook Content
Britney L. Jones – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2025
Science education policies and standards have called for educators to teach students about the Nature of Science (NOS) and engage them in Culturally Relevant Science Teaching (CRST), which requires critical shifts away from traditional science teaching. As such, teachers are being asked to possess or take up conceptions of science that challenge…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Scientific Principles, Science Education
Masnick, Amy M.; Morris, Bradley J. – Education Sciences, 2022
Data reasoning is an essential component of scientific reasoning, as a component of evidence evaluation. In this paper, we outline a model of scientific data reasoning that describes how data sensemaking underlies data reasoning. Data sensemaking, a relatively automatic process rooted in perceptual mechanisms that summarize large quantities of…
Descriptors: Models, Science Process Skills, Data Interpretation, Cognitive Processes
Bighash, Leila; Sangalang, Angeline – Communication Teacher, 2022
This activity motivates students of communication research methods by challenging them to face their personal epistemologies. We introduce them to a set of formal ways of knowing and match these with their personal justifications for knowledge. Through this exercise, students learn that the scientific method is worthy of study not just to pass a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Research Training, Student Research, Research Methodology
