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Direct linkJessica L. Alzen; Kelsey Edwards; William R. Penuel; Brian J. Reiser; Cynthia Passmore; Chris D. Griesemer; Aliza Zivic; Christina Murzynski; Jason Y. Buell – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2023
Student participation in the science practices is more than following directions to conduct pre-determined experiments and analyze data with expected solutions. This requires classroom shifts that increase the epistemic agency of students: increase student involvement and authority in developing science knowledge and practices, rather than the…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Personal Autonomy
Emily Starrett; Michelle Jordan; Ying-Chih Chen; Carlos Meza-Torres; Jongchan Park – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2025
Grappling with uncertainty is an essential element of students' science learning and sense-making processes, yet literature is limited regarding how teachers can facilitate and use student scientific uncertainty as a pedagogical resource in their classrooms. Furthermore, progress on pedagogical practice depends on both the ability to notice one's…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Cognitive Processes, Ambiguity (Context)
Jeffrey Nordine; Marcus Kubsch; David Fortus; Joseph Krajcik; Knut Neumann – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
One reason for the widespread use of the energy concept across the sciences is that energy analysis can be used to interpret the behavior of systems even if one does not know the particular mechanisms that underlie the observed behavior. By providing an approach to interpreting unfamiliar phenomena, energy provides a lens on phenomena that can set…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Energy, Scientific Concepts, Science Instruction
Yang, Rui; Porter, Andrew C.; Massey, Christine M.; Merlino, Joseph F.; Desimone, Laura M. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2020
This study investigates, through a cluster-randomized trial, the effectiveness of two approaches to increasing middle school students' science learning using a traditional science curriculum. Ninety schools were randomly assigned into one of three arms: (a) a treatment arm in which the textbook curriculum was modified based on four principles of…
Descriptors: Science Curriculum, Secondary School Science, Middle School Students, Middle School Teachers
Cherbow, Kevin – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2023
Recent reforms in K-12 science education call for curricular materials that are designed to be "coherent for students." This form of coherence arises when the classroom community sees their science work as addressing their questions and problems. In enactment, the teacher sometimes has to improvise from the planned trajectory of the…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Creative Activities, Educational Change, Science Education
Matuk, Camillia; Zhang, Jiayuan; Uk, Irina; Linn, Marcia C. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2019
Inquiry instruction often neglects graphing. It gives students few opportunities to develop the knowledge and skills necessary to take advantage of graphs, and which are called for by current science education standards. Yet, it is not well known how to support graphing skills, particularly within middle school science inquiry contexts. Using…
Descriptors: Graphs, Inquiry, Middle School Students, Student Attitudes
Fortus, David; Kubsch, Marcus; Bielik, Tom; Krajcik, Joseph; Lehavi, Yaron; Neumann, Knut; Nordine, Jeffrey; Opitz, Sebastian; Touitou, Israel – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2019
Energy is a central concept in science in every discipline and also an essential player in many of the issues facing people everywhere on the globe. However, studies have shown that by the end of K-12 schooling, most students do not reach the level of understanding required to be able to use energy to make sense of a wide range of phenomena. Many…
Descriptors: Energy, Science Instruction, Middle School Students, Academic Standards
Lee, Hyunok; Lee, Hyunju; Zeidler, Dana L. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2020
In the socioscientific issues (SSI) classroom, students need to cross the border between the subcultures of science (i.e., school science vs. everyday science). Traditional school contexts tend to present science as positivistic knowledge and unshakable truth unaffected by sociocultural factors. In contrast, everyday science, including SSI, is…
Descriptors: Science and Society, Science Instruction, Course Content, Middle School Students
Boda, Phillip A.; Bathia, Shruti; Linn, Marcia C. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2021
Integrating sophisticated graphical analysis skills as they learn science is essential for K-12 students and emphasized in current standards. In this study, we iteratively designed a Graphing Integration Inventory (GII) over a three-year period, while also supporting students to develop their capabilities to use graphs to learn science content in…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Graphs, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction
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
Block, Nicholas C. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2020
Science students are increasingly challenged to use technical language related to the topics that they are studying, and therefore, science teachers benefit from knowing which tools are effective to support students in learning to use new terms. This study examined the impact of using one such tool--sentences frames--to teach science vocabulary,…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Hispanic American Students, Secondary School Science, Science Instruction
Premo, Joshua; Cavagnetto, Andy; Honke, Garrett; Kurtz, Kenneth J. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2019
The idea that characteristics acquired by an organism during its lifetime can be inherited by offspring and result in evolution is a substantial impediment to student understanding of evolution. In the current study, we performed a preliminary examination of how acquiring physical changes in a question prompt may differentially cue intuitive and…
Descriptors: Evolution, Genetics, Concept Formation, Science Instruction
Papadouris, Nicos; Constantinou, Constantinos P. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2016
We investigated whether it is possible for 12-year-old students to develop a qualitative conceptualization of energy and four associate features (forms of energy, transfer processes, conservation, and degradation) as a framework for constructing interpretive accounts for the operation of physical phenomena (specifically, for changes taking place…
Descriptors: Energy, Middle School Students, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
Fredricks, Jennifer A.; Hofkens, Tara; Wang, Ming-Te; Mortenson, Elizabeth; Scott, Paul – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2018
This study uses a mixed method sequential exploratory design to examine motivational and contextual influences on boys' and girls' engagement in math and science, paying particular attention to similarities and differences in the patterns by gender. First, interviews were conducted with 38 middle and high school students who varied in their level…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Learner Engagement, Mathematics Education, Science Education
Tal, Tali; Lavie Alon, Nirit; Morag, Orly – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2014
In light of the literature that deals with challenges of outdoor education, this paper presents exemplary practices in field trips to natural environments. We offer an analysis of 62 field trips of students in grades 4-8 (age 10-14), guided by professional guides or by teachers. In aiming at elucidating the qualities of exemplary fieldtrips, we…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Field Trips, Parks, Outdoor Education
