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Clarissa de Oliveira Deverel-Rico – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The three articles in this dissertation explore how curriculum, instruction, and assessments should align with the vision for science learning outlined in the Framework for K-12 Science Education. Together, the papers demonstrate how curriculum, instruction, and assessment, when mutually supportive of each other, can foster a learning environment…
Descriptors: Science Education, Student Centered Learning, Teaching Methods, Science Tests
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Grachan, Jeremy J.; Marek, Mason; Cray, James, Jr.; Quinn, Melissa M. – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2023
Students often find human anatomy courses to be difficult due to the large amount of content covered at a fast pace, which can result in students failing to retain pertinent information. Superheroes are at the forefront of today's popular culture, with many students identifying with specific characters. Utilizing aspects of students' lives, or…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Human Body, Anatomy, Science Education
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Semra Demirçali; Mahmut Selvi – Online Submission, 2023
The primary objective of this research was to investigate the effects of model-based science instruction on the conceptual development of 7th grade students in the topic of electricity. This qualitative research was conducted during the 2022-2023 academic year, using purposive sampling method. The study comprised 33 7th grade students (18 boys and…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Electronic Equipment
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Ayyildiz, Yildizay; Tarhan, Leman; Gil, Aylin – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2023
Background: Research on chemistry education has found that students have commonly some difficulties in understanding chemical changes. These difficulties in the learning process have negatively affected students' success. For this reason, it is very important to overcome students' learning difficulties with new materials that prevent the…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Achievement, Science Curriculum, Course Descriptions
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Shu-Fen Lin; Wan-Chin Shie – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2024
Teachers lack effective curriculum-based instruments to assess their students' scientific competence that would provide information for modifying their inquiry instruction. The main purpose of this study was to develop and validate a Curriculum-Based Scientific Competence (CBSC) test to assess students' scientific competence in a 1-semester Grade…
Descriptors: Science Curriculum, Validity, Grade 9, Science Tests
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Shakeel Mohammad Cassam Atchia; Dhavini Chummun; Saheel Luckho – Journal of Biological Education, 2024
This study uses a case study methodology to showcase the use of the DTSICM (Design thinking Strategy to Identify and Clear Misconceptions) model, which provides a design thinking approach to identify and clear a common misconception on photosynthesis, held by a sample of 27 A-level students. As a first stage, data collected through the…
Descriptors: Design, Thinking Skills, Scientific Concepts, Misconceptions
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Kizkapan, Oktay; Bektas, Oktay – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
This study has two aims. The first is to determine the effect of argumentation and epistemologically enriched argumentation on academic achievement. The second is to determine students' opinions about the effect of the integration of argumentation and epistemologically enriched argumentation into the teaching process on academic achievement. In…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Grade 7, Science Curriculum, Comparative Analysis
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Gai, Lichun; Li, Yanmei; Zheng, Changlong; Wei, Bing; Jiang, Zhimeng; Lederman, Judith S. – International Journal of Science Education, 2022
While helping students develop informed views about nature of scientific inquiry (VNOSI) has been emphasised in science education, little is known regarding students' current VNOSI at a certain grade level and whether there was evidence of higher attainment of VNOSI in students in higher grades as compared to lower grades? The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Scientific Principles, Scientific Attitudes, Inquiry
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Wiyarsi, Antuni; Pratomo, Heru; Priyambodo, Erfan – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2020
The study aims to investigate the effect of context-based learning (CBL) on vocational high school students' chemical literacy of petroleum topics. Through quasi-experimental research with pretest-posttest design, 30 students from the automotive engineering program were assigned as the experimental group, while 31 students from the same school…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, High School Students, Auto Mechanics, Comparative Analysis
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Carmel, Justin H.; Herrington, Deborah G.; Posey, Lynmarie A.; Ward, Joseph S.; Pollock, Amy M.; Cooper, Melanie M. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2019
Over the past 20 years research on reform efforts aimed at the chemistry laboratory has focused on different aspects of students' experiences including increasing content knowledge, improving student attitudes toward chemistry, incorporating inquiry activities, and providing students a hands-on experience related to the chemistry concepts learned…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Educational Change
Laura B. Armstrong – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Climate change and the resulting and related environmental and humanitarian outcomes are some of the fundamental challenges of the 21st century. Green chemistry, a relatively recent addition to the chemistry family, aims to reframe chemistry so that chemistry ethically and responsibly attends to its own environmental and human health impacts and…
Descriptors: Climate, Science Instruction, Chemistry, Ethics
Masomeh Mahzoon-Hagheghi – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this study was to analyze the effectiveness of scripted biology curriculum as a means of providing students with the information required to increase content knowledge, while comparing curriculum developed by the teacher that utilizes the Understanding by Design (UbD) framework (2005). The study is guided by two research questions:…
Descriptors: Science Curriculum, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Biology
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Gao, Su; Wang, Jian; Zhong, Zhiyong – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2018
The Chinese government has implemented centralised science curriculum standards to change science teaching from a didactic to inquiry-based approach to support all students in acquiring science literacy. Framed through theoretical perspectives of inquiry-based instruction and cultural pedagogy, this study examined the influence and impact of these…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Academic Achievement, Standards, Science Curriculum
Artika, Wiwit – ProQuest LLC, 2018
My study was to discover the perceptions of general secondary senior high school biology teachers about the application of curriculum 2013. Their further opinions of biology topics and the instructional practices in the class have supported the findings of this study. In addressing this study, general senior secondary school (GSSS) biology…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Secondary School Teachers, Science Teachers
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Ramnarain, Umesh – Perspectives in Education, 2014
The South African science curriculum advocates an inquiry-based approach to practical work. Inquiry is a complex and multifaceted activity involving both cognitive and physical activity; thus, paper-and-pencil items do not provide the authentic context for this assessment. This study investigates the construct validity of inquiry-related questions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Curriculum, Inquiry, Physical Sciences
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