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Direct linkMatthew Hall – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Teachers' individual beliefs regarding the value of the academic material they teach, the nature of the subject, how they should teach it, as well as their assumptions regarding students, classrooms, instructional materials, the nature of learning, and how students construct knowledge can all have considerable influence over their teaching…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Cognitive Processes, Teacher Attitudes, Suburban Schools
Peer reviewedMaja Planinic; Katarina Jelicic; Karolina Matejak Cvenic; Ana Susac; Lana Ivanjek – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Wave optics is a mandatory part of Croatian secondary school physics curriculum for students in the final year of secondary school (age 18-19). Many physics education research studies have shown that it is a difficult physics topic for both university and secondary school students. An inquiry-based teaching sequence on wave optics, designed for…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Secondary School Science, Physics, Scientific Concepts
Brush, Thomas; Glazewski, Krista; Shin, Suhkyung; Shin, Sungwon – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2021
The purpose of this study was to explore the impact a specific socio-scientific inquiry (SSI) unit has on student achievement and attitudes over the course of two years with two different implementations of the unit. Specifically, this study addressed the following research question: What impact does participation in an SSI unit have on student…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Science and Society, Science Instruction, Biology
Lederman, Judith; Lederman, Norman; Bartels, Selina; Jimenez, Juan; Akubo, Mark; Aly, Shereen; Bao, Chengcheng; Blanquet, Estelle; Blonder, Ron; Bologna Soares de Andrade, Mariana; Buntting, Catherine; Cakir, Mustafa; EL-Deghaidy, Heba; ElZorkani, Ahmed; Gaigher, Estelle; Guo, Shuchen; Hakanen, Arvi; Hamed Al-Lal, Soraya; Han-Tosunoglu, Cigdem; Hattingh, Annemarie; Hume, Anne; Irez, Serhat; Kay, Gillian; Kivilcan Dogan, Ozgur; Kremer, Kerstin; Kuo, Pi-Chu; Lavonen, Jari; Lin, Shu-Fen; Liu, Cheng; Liu, Enshan; Liu, Shiang-Yao; Lv, Bin; Mamlok-Naaman, Rachel; McDonald, Christine; Neumann, Irene; Pan, Yaozhen; Picholle, Eric; Rivero García, Ana; Rundgren, Carl-Johan; Santibáñez-Gómez, David; Saunders, Kathy; Schwartz, Renee; Voitle, Frauke; von Gyllenpalm, Jakob; Wei, Fangbing; Wishart, Jocelyn; Wu, Zhifeng; Xiao, Huang; Yalaki, Yalcin; Zhou, Qiaoxue – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2019
Although understandings of scientific inquiry (as opposed to conducting inquiry) are included in science education reform documents around the world, little is known about what students have learned about inquiry during their elementary school years. This is partially due to the lack of any assessment instrument to measure understandings about…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Middle School Students, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Jiménez-Liso, Maria Rut; López-Banet, Luisa; Dillon, Justin – Science & Education, 2020
We propose explicit and implicit approaches for the teaching of acid-base chemistry based on research into the history and nature of science (NoS). To support these instructional proposals, we identify four rationales for students to understand acid-base processes: daily life, socio-scientific, curriculum, and history of science. The extensive…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Scientific Concepts
Pols, C. F. J.; Dekkers, P. J. J. M.; de Vries, M. J. – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
This paper explores students' ability to analyse and interpret empirical data as inadequate data analysis skills and understandings may contribute to the renowned disappointing outcomes of practical work in secondary school physics. Selected competences, derived from a collection of leading curricula, are explored through interviews and practical…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Secondary School Science, Inquiry, Science Process Skills
Download full textEffendi-Hasibuan, Muhammad Haris; Harizon; Ngatijo; Mukminin, Amirul – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2019
The inquiry-based teaching instruction (IbTI) has been practiced internationally to improve student competency in science. The implementation of this strategy has been recommended by the science curriculum in Indonesia since 2003. However, it is not still implemented successfully in schools. The implementation is likely unsuccessful to achieve its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Inquiry, Teaching Methods
Todd, Amber; Romine, William – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2018
Modern genetics is a relatively new domain, but it is increasingly important for students to have a firm grasp on the content, because genetic technologies are becoming more commonplace. In a previous study, we used the Learning Progression-based Assessment of Modern Genetics to assess high school students' knowledge of genetics concepts after an…
Descriptors: High School Students, Genetics, Science Instruction, Retention (Psychology)
Hsiao, Hsien-Sheng; Tsai, Fu-Hsing; Hsu, I.-Ying – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2020
Past studies have suggested that young people lack knowledge regarding food safety, and that food safety education is appropriate for integration into science education since it often involves science knowledge. Thus, this study combined the methods of inquiry-based and game-based learning to develop a computer detective game, called the Poison…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Educational Games, Safety Education, Food
Rybska, Eliza – Contributions from Science Education Research, 2018
Inquiry-based science education (IBSE) is a pedagogic strategy that combines scientific experimentation, observation and sense-making through collaborative learning. This chapter reports on the use of live snails to explore the extent to which hosting living organisms in the classroom might provide a productive context for promoting IBSE. Even…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Science Education, Cooperative Learning, Animals
Alston, Daniel M.; Marshall, Jeff. C.; Zambak, V. Serbay – Science Educator, 2017
One could argue that attitudes, knowledge, beliefs, and differing definitions and perceptions can all affect science teachers' motivation to engage in inquiry practices. Better understanding what motivates science teachers' instructional behaviors can result in improved efforts by researchers to align their instruction with quality inquiry-based…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Middle School Teachers, Secondary School Science, Expectation
Friedman, Lawrence B.; Margolin, Jonathan; Swanlund, Andrew; Dhillon, Sonica; Liu, Feng – American Institutes for Research, 2017
Playground Physics is a technology-based application and accompanying curriculum designed by New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) to support middle school students' science engagement and learning of force, energy, and motion. The program includes professional development, the Playground Physics app, and a curriculum aligned with New York State…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Science Instruction, Secondary School Science, Physics
Fitzgerald, Michael; McKinnon, David H.; Danaia, Lena; Deehan, James – Research in Science Education, 2016
In this paper, we present the results from a study of the impact on students involved in a large-scale inquiry-based astronomical high school education intervention in Australia. Students in this intervention were led through an educational design allowing them to undertake an investigative approach to understanding the lifecycle of stars more…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Student Attitudes, Secondary School Science
Balim, Ali Günay; Inel-Ekici, Didem; Özcan, Erkan – Journal of Education and Learning, 2016
Problem based learning, in which events from daily life are presented as interesting scenarios, is one of the active learning approaches that encourages students to self-direct learning. Problem based learning, generally used in higher education, requires students to use high end thinking skills in learning environments. In order to use…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Problem Based Learning, Secondary School Science, Science Instruction
McWright, Cynthia Nicole Pendleton – ProQuest LLC, 2017
For decades science educators and educational institutions have been concerned with the status of science content being taught in K-12 schools and the delivery of the content. Thus, educational reformers in the United States continue to strive to solve the problem on how to best teach science for optimal success in learning. The constructivist…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Chemistry, Student Interests, Knowledge Level
