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Huinan Liu; Bo Chen; Sihui Huang; Songting Yao; Wenqi Zhao; Ziyin Li – Science & Education, 2025
The diversity of scientific methods has received widespread attention and recognition in recent years. Brandon's Matrix illustrated four categories of scientific methods, which was applied to establish the analytical framework of this study. This paper adopted content analysis to investigate how the diversity of scientific methods is represented…
Descriptors: Science Education, Chemistry, Scientific Methodology, Foreign Countries
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
Saribas, Deniz; Akdemir, Zeynep Gonca – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2022
Our past experiences in science teacher education inferred that using scientific practices in science teaching courses and supporting pre-service teachers' efforts to integrate these into their teaching allow them to gain confidence in analysing and interpreting empirical data. However, those efforts sometimes do not provide sufficient help for…
Descriptors: Action Research, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Scientific Methodology
Tu, Pham Thi Hong; Hang, Nguyen Thi; Van, Luong Thi Thuy; Dung, Ha Van; Nga, Nguyen Thi Hang; Phan, Cao Xuan – World Journal of Education, 2022
Natural science itself is an experimental science, so practice and experimentation are important and are typical teaching methods of this subject. To make practice and experiment play the highest strengths in teaching and developing the ability to learn about nature - one of the three specific competencies of natural science, the association of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Teachers, Science Teachers, Science Instruction
Cullinane, Alison; Hillier, Judith; Childs, Ann; Erduran, Sibel – Research in Science Education, 2023
This article utilizes a framework for classifying different scientific methods suggested by a philosopher of science (Brandon "Synthese," 99, 59-73, 1994) called Brandon's Matrix. It presents findings from teachers who took part in a funded project in England that looked at the nature of scientific methods in science investigations.…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Matrices, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
James DiFranco – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The recent Next Generation Science Standards recommend students have increased opportunities engaging in modeling work scientists do. Science classroom tasks include simple inquiry compared to more complex authentic inquiry that closely resembles authentic science. Science fair participation presents students with the opportunity to engage in…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Authentic Learning, Inquiry
Roberto I. Esponda-Vela´squez; Bryan A. Rivera-Marti´nez; Renata M. Valle-Sua´rez; Henry D. Ponce-Rodri´guez – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
Since the appearance of the COVID-19 pandemic and its subsequent stage, the changes produced in the chemistry teaching process have allowed educators to use a wide range of strategies, methodologies, and tools to promote student learning. To carry out laboratory practices, some strategies reported include the use of simulators and educational…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Chemistry, Science Instruction
Ward, Meghan; Rawle, Fiona – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2022
Several predominant themes have emerged during the COVID-19 global pandemic that intersect with the nature and process of science. This paper identifies three such themes and briefly explores how they can be used as case studies and narrative cornerstones in teaching and learning. The themes include: (1) the understanding that science is…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Science Process Skills, COVID-19
Dabrowski, Jennifer A.; Manson McManamy, Mary E. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2021
While scientists place high value on the scientific method, its relevance to everyday life is often opaque to nonscientists. In undergraduate teaching, its implementation is primarily apportioned to upper-level, laboratory science classes for majors. Herein we describe the modification of a recipe as a real-world project for learning the…
Descriptors: Cooking Instruction, Scientific Methodology, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness
Kadish, Theresa – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation asks how to improve science education and science communication, and suggests that digital storytelling techniques can be used to better engage learners in the process of knowledge making. Digital storytelling refers to both the use of high-quality digital media content as learning materials, and also to the use of social…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Story Telling, STEM Education, Teaching Methods
Werner, Sonja; Förtsch, Christian; Boone, William; von Kotzebue, Lena; Neuhaus, Birgit J. – Research in Science Education, 2019
To obtain a general understanding of science, model use as part of National Education Standards is important for instruction. Model use can be characterized by three aspects: (1) the characteristics of the model, (2) the integration of the model into instruction, and (3) the use of models to foster scientific reasoning. However, there were no…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Models, Foreign Countries
Ioannidou, Olga; Finch, Katy; Erduran, Sibel – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2022
A significant issue in the teaching, learning and summative assessment of practical science is that the underpinning model of scientific methods is based on a fairly simplistic and linear account that does not represent how scientists actually do practical work. In this paper, we examine how science teachers in England and Wales view scientific…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Science Instruction, Scientific Methodology, Science Teachers
Cha, Jeongho; Kan, Su-Yin; Chia, Poh Wai; Chia, Poh San – Asian Journal of University Education, 2022
One of the challenges that science teachers face is the lack of strategy/method to train students in data collection and developing analytical skills, which are pre-requisites to resolve socio-scientific problems and an important element in scientific literacy. In this activity, the SWOT analysis proposed by the Stanford Research Institute in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Methodology, Scientific Methodology, Data Collection
Caroline W. Stabile – ProQuest LLC, 2021
There is a call in science education for students to be in the business of "doing science," rather than "doing the lesson" (Jimenez-Aleixandre et al., 2000). Developing explanatory models is one important strategy for sensemaking in science. Teachers' knowledge plays a critical role in how classroom interactions are framed and…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Science Education, Science Instruction, Modeling (Psychology)
Guerra, Genaina Fernandes; Noll, Matias – International Journal of Instruction, 2021
This study evaluated how the process of teaching scientific methodology occurs in technical courses in integrated high schools. The qualitative case study was conducted through documentary analysis (based on regulations and pedagogical projects) and semi-structured interviews with teachers (n=7), coordinators (n=3), and students (n=16) of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Science, High School Teachers, Science Instruction