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Mannion, Ken; Harrison, Bill – Education in Science, 1998
Provides an overview of a student research program that stresses the role of science in everyday life, knowledge and understanding, and the methods of scientific inquiry. Provides concrete examples of how these purposes can be achieved in a holistic way. (DDR)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Foreign Countries, Hands on Science, Higher Education
Heliawati, Leny; Afakillah, Idham Ibnu; Pursitasari, Indarini Dwi – International Journal of Instruction, 2021
The purpose of this research is to improve students' understanding and the ability to perform scientific work through creative problem-solving learning with the open-ended experiment approach to the separation of mixtures material using online learning. The study used a quasi-experimental method with the nonequivalent pretest-posttest control…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Problem Solving, Experiments, High School Students
Serder, Margareta; Jakobsson, Anders – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2015
Large-scale assessment, such as the Programme for International Assessment (PISA), plays an increasingly important role in current educational practice and politics. However, many scholars have questioned the validity and reliability of the tests and the extent to which they actually constitute trustworthy representations of students' knowledge.…
Descriptors: Science Tests, Knowledge Level, Scientific Literacy, Assignments
Jin, Qingna; Kim, Mijung – Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 2021
It has been suggested that students' epistemic understandings influence their practice of argumentation. However, how that influence takes place is not yet fully explained. To contribute to the answer to this question, this study explored elementary students' epistemic understandings in their scientific argumentation. A 4-month qualitative case…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Concept Formation, Science Instruction, Epistemology
David R. Cordie; Leigh Maxwell – Environmental Education Research, 2023
Climate change denial is often treated as a binary opinion. However, an individual can express acceptance of climate change, while still denying other aspects of the field such as its causation by humans, impacts, or our ability to mitigate these impacts. Here, we conduct a semester long survey and discourse analysis of a class of first-year…
Descriptors: Climate, Environmental Education, Undergraduate Study, First Year Seminars
Seyhan, Hatice Güngör; Türk, Gülseda Eyceyurt – Elementary School Forum (Mimbar Sekolah Dasar), 2022
This study aims to examine the effects of argumentation-supported problem-based learning (AS-PBL) carried out in the Chemistry-II laboratory course on the conceptual understanding of prospective science teachers about "Chemical equilibrium and Le-Chatelier's principle". The prospective teachers' answers were analyzed using content…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Preservice Teachers, Persuasive Discourse, Problem Based Learning
Okur, Murat; Güngör Seyhan, Hatice – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2021
In the study, the effect of Predict-Observe-Explain (POE) activities carried out within the scope of argumentation-supported learning method on the detection of the conceptual understandings of the pre-service science teachers about "Solutions: Dissolving-Melting" was examined. Based on this main purpose, a case study was applied in the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Education, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation
Arthurs, Leilani A.; Kowalski, Chelsie M.; Elwonger, Justin M. – Journal of Astronomy & Earth Sciences Education, 2020
Communicating even fundamental scientific concepts can be challenging. Furthermore, student mental models are often difficult to uncover even by the most talented teacher or researcher. Drawing is a universal process skill widely used by scientists to refine their conceptions about a wide range of topics, communicate ideas, and advance scientific…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Concept Formation, Freehand Drawing, Scientific Concepts
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Scriven, Michael – Journal of Legal Education, 1971
Law schools should incorporate more training in scientific method, and social scientists could benefit from study of the subtleties of the law. (Editor)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Concept Formation, Information Sources, Information Utilization
Jina Chang; Joonhyeong Park; Kok-Sing Tang; David F. Treagust; Mihye Won – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2024
Background: To support collaborative drawing, it is essential to investigate how students make collaborative drawings and how these contribute to elaborating their ideas. This study examines how 5th and 6th grade students' group drawings contributed to increased levels of explanations of their drawings about sound transmission. Methods: We…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Freehand Drawing, Scientific Concepts, Science Education
Gyllenpalm, Jakob; Rundgren, Carl-Johan; Lederman, Judith; Lederman, Norman – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2022
This paper analyses data from the Swedish sample of the international VASI (Views about scientific inquiry) study (Lederman et al. [2019]. An international collaborative investigation of beginning seventh grade students' understandings of scientific inquiry: Establishing a baseline. "Journal of Research in Science Teaching." Published…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Research, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
Syahrin, Alfi; Dawud, Dawud; Suwignyo, Heri; Priyatni, Endah Tri – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2019
Purpose: This study aimed to explain creative thinking patterns, including imaginative thinking, divergent thinking, and lateral thinking of students in scientific work. The scientific work studied was in the form of the Student Creativity Program at Malang State University, Indonesia. Research Methods: This study used a qualitative approach with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creative Thinking, College Students, College Science
Fragkiadaki, Glykeria; Fleer, Marilyn; Rai, Prabhat – Research in Science Education, 2023
A substantial number of empirical studies in the field of Early Childhood Science Education have explored science concept formation in early childhood educational settings. Most of these studies focus on the process of science concept formation during a teaching intervention or a school year period. However, less is known about how children form…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Toddlers, Young Children
Detken, Franziska; Brückmann, Maja – Education Sciences, 2021
We present a multi-method design for elucidating young, mostly illiterate children's (grades 1 and 2 of Swiss elementary school, ages 6-8) ideas about energy. The design uses semi-structured interviews and video recordings as the main methods of data generation and collection, respectively. A plurality of tasks, including drawing, sorting and a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Grade 2
Khishfe, Rola – International Journal of Science Education, 2022
This study investigated the effect of explicit nature of science (NOS) instruction and explicit argumentation instruction in socioscientific and scientific contexts, on students' NOS conceptions and their argumentation skills. Undergraduate students enrolled in two sections of a science content course were assigned into two groups: Socioscientific…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Persuasive Discourse, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes