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Battaglia, Onofrio Rosario; Di Paola, Benedetto; Fazio, Claudio – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2021
Many research results show that students often highlight "mixed-type" reasoning when tackling problematic situations and problems. This reasoning is based on the simultaneous use of common-sense and mere descriptions of facts, perceived as sufficient to build an "explanation" of observed or proposed situations and problems.…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Student Attitudes, Scientific Concepts
Gallitto, Aurelio Agliolo; Battaglia, Onofrio Rosario; Fazio, Claudio – Physics Education, 2021
We describe an educational activity that can be done by using smartphones to collect data in physics experiments aimed to measure the oscillating period of a spring-mass system and the elastic constant of the helicoidal spring by the dynamic method. Results for the oscillating period and for the elastic constant of the spring agree very well with…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Measurement Techniques, Telecommunications
Fazio, Claudio; Di Paola, Benedetto; Battaglia, Onofrio Rosario – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2020
Two science teaching workshops for students of the elementary teacher education degree course at the University of Palermo, Italy are discussed, one based on inquiry-based methods and the other on "traditional" teaching methods. A questionnaire aimed to understand the teaching styles preferred by students, their reasons for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Inquiry
Agliolo Gallitto, Aurelio; Zingales, Roberto; Battaglia, Onofrio Rosario; Fazio, Claudio – Physics Education, 2021
Student understanding of the laws that describe the flow of a fluid is often hampered by a defective knowledge of basic classical mechanics (kinematics, statics, dynamics, and conservation laws) and by wrong common-sense ideas about quantities related to fluids, such as velocity and pressure. A pedagogical discussion about the Venturi effect,…
Descriptors: Mechanics (Physics), Scientific Principles, Scientific Concepts, Science Equipment
Gallitto, Aurelio Agliolo; Battaglia, Onofrio Rosario; Cavallaro, Giuseppe; Lazzara, Giuseppe; Lisuzzo, Lorenzo; Fazio, Claudio – Physics Teacher, 2022
We describe an educational activity that can be completed with mobile media devices in order to understand the working principle of a pair of tuning forks, from the Historical Collection of Physics Instruments of the University of Palermo, and how they were used to explain acoustic interference and beats with the Lissajous optical method. This…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Scientific Concepts, Science Activities
Battaglia, Onofrio Rosario; Di Paola, Benedetto; Fazio, Claudio – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2017
Research in Science Education has shown that often students need to learn how to identify differences and similarities between descriptive and explicative models. The development and use of explicative skills in the field of thermal science has always been a difficult objective to reach. A way to develop analogical reasoning is to use in Science…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Learning Activities, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts
Non-Hierarchical Clustering as a Method to Analyse an Open-Ended Questionnaire on Algebraic Thinking
Di Paola, Benedetto; Battaglia, Onofrio Rosario; Fazio, Claudio – South African Journal of Education, 2016
The problem of taking a data set and separating it into subgroups, where the members of each subgroup are more similar to each other than they are to members outside the subgroup, has been extensively studied in science and mathematics education research. Student responses to written questions and multiple-choice tests have been characterised and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 10, Questionnaires, Algebra
Battaglia, Onofrio Rosario; Di Paola, Benedetto; Persano Adorno, Dominique; Pizzolato, Nicola; Fazio, Claudio – Research in Science Education, 2019
Two 20-h modelling-based workshops focused on the explanation of thermally activated phenomena were held at the University of Palermo, Italy, during the Academic Year 2014-2015. One of them was conducted by applying an inquiry-based approach, while the other, still based on laboratory and modelling activities, was not focused on inquiry.…
Descriptors: Workshops, Engineering Education, Chemical Engineering, Undergraduate Students
Fazio, Claudio; Battaglia, Onofrio Rosario; Di Paola, Benedetto – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2013
This paper describes a method aimed at pointing out the quality of the mental models undergraduate engineering students deploy when asked to create explanations for phenomena or processes and/or use a given model in the same context. Student responses to a specially designed written questionnaire are quantitatively analyzed using…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Science Instruction, Questionnaires