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Omarchevska, Yoana; Lachner, Andreas; Richter, Juliane; Scheiter, Katharina – Educational Psychology Review, 2022
Guided inquiry learning is an effective method for learning about scientific concepts. The present study investigated the effects of combining video modeling (VM) examples and metacognitive prompts on university students' (N = 127) scientific reasoning and self-regulation during inquiry learning. We compared the effects of watching VM examples…
Descriptors: Science Education, Inquiry, Scientific Concepts, Science Process Skills
Wallace, Colin S. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study reports the results of the first systematic investigation into Astro 101 students' conceptual and reasoning difficulties with cosmology. We developed four surveys with which we measured students' conceptual knowledge of the Big Bang, the expansion and evolution of the universe, and the evidence for dark matter. Our classical test theory…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Astronomy, College Students, Lecture Method