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Rachel J. Pinnow; Laura Zangori – Cognition and Instruction, 2024
Reforms within science education strive to shift early science instruction (K-2) so students have ample sense-making opportunities to construct scientific explanations. Classroom discussions play a key role in supporting these endeavors. This requires that classroom discussions are shaped in ways that foster scientific instruction and learning. In…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Elementary School Students, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Grade 1
Penuel, William R.; Allen, Anna-Ruth; Henson, Kate; Campanella, Melissa; Patton, Rachel; Rademaker, Kristin; Reed, Will; Watkins, Douglas; Wingert, Kerri; Reiser, Brian; Zivic, Aliza – Cognition and Instruction, 2022
In this paper, we explore how co-design creates opportunities to learn practical design knowledge related to clarifying and balancing goals for a particular class of design contexts: developing materials that meet ambitious, externally defined disciplinary learning goals that also connect to the interests and priorities of students from…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Science Curriculum, Science Instruction, School Districts
Ko, Mon-Lin Monica; Hall, Allison; Goldman, Susan R. – Cognition and Instruction, 2022
Collaborative design (co-design) involving practitioners and researchers is emerging as a productive context for addressing theoretical as well as practical issues of teaching and learning. Co-design affords learning opportunities for "all" participants, although the focus has typically been on teachers. In this study, the Interconnected…
Descriptors: Researchers, Cooperation, Professional Development, Instructional Design
Barth-Cohen, Lauren A.; Braden, Sarah K. – Cognition and Instruction, 2022
Scientific observation is central to classroom inquiry and children's investigations and explanations in science. Young children can struggle with observation, and research has shown that professional scientists who engage in complex observation tasks, observe detailed patterns when they have well-developed disciplinary knowledge. However, fewer…
Descriptors: Geology, Observation, Science Instruction, Field Instruction
Morales-Doyle, Daniel; Varelas, Maria; Segura, David; Bernal-Munera, Marcela – Cognition and Instruction, 2021
This study examines the development of secondary preservice science teachers' (PSTs') sociopolitical understandings in the context of a yearlong, masters-level, justice-oriented teacher education program. It articulates a theoretical perspective regarding teachers' conceptions of the work-of-teaching in terms of pedagogical and disciplinary…
Descriptors: Ethics, Science Instruction, Preservice Teachers, Case Studies
Finch, Lila; Moreno, Celeste; Shapiro, R. Benjamin – Cognition and Instruction, 2021
Creating learning environments that integrate arts, sciences, and computing in education can improve learning in these disciplines. In particular, transdisciplinary integrations of these disciplines can lead to expansive alterations or dissolutions of epistemological, ideological, and methodological boundaries. We wish to support teachers in the…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Learning Processes, Thinking Skills, Epistemology
Robertson, Amy D.; Gray, Kara E.; Lovegren, Clarissa E.; Killough, Kathryn L.; Wenzinger, Scott T. – Cognition and Instruction, 2021
Responsive instruction--or instruction that foregrounds and takes up the disciplinary substance of student thinking--is both a hallmark of recent STEM education reforms and challenging to enact. This kind of instruction may be especially challenging in instructional contexts that mandate or rely on curriculum with set, structured learning…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Teaching Methods, Thinking Skills, STEM Education
Schwarz, Christina V.; Braaten, Melissa; Haverly, Christa; de los Santos, Elizabeth X. – Cognition and Instruction, 2021
Eliciting, noticing, and responding to students' sense-making is important for advancing students' understanding and fostering meaningful participation in science. By sense-making, we mean wrestling with ideas, language, experiences, and perspectives in a community to figure out how and why the world works. In the bustle of an elementary…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Elementary School Teachers, Science Instruction, Teacher Student Relationship
Tang, Kok-Sing – Cognition and Instruction, 2020
Current research in science education and the cognitive sciences has highlighted the importance of epistemic tools in scaffolding learners to think in ways consistent with scientific practices. However, recent studies on epistemic tool have mainly focused on epistemic cognition, but not epistemic metacognition. Epistemic metacognition, which…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Science Education, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Epistemology
Larrain, Antonia; Freire, Paulina; López, Patricia; Grau, Valeska – Cognition and Instruction, 2019
Peer argumentation, especially the discussion of contrary points of view, has experimentally been found to be effective in promoting science content knowledge, but how this occurs is still unknown. The available explanations are insufficient because they do not account for the evidence showing that gains in content knowledge are unrelated to group…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Peer Influence, Middle School Students, Science Instruction
Buenrostro, Patricia M.; Radinsky, Josh – Cognition and Instruction, 2019
Critical math and science educators have argued for pedagogies that focus on equity, social justice, and the identities of learners. To inform debates about the purposes and values of math and science pedagogy, we need to better understand how different kinds of curriculum and instruction are taken up by learners over time. This study examines the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Social Justice, Equal Education
Davis, Natalie R.; Schaeffer, Janelle – Cognition and Instruction, 2019
The study of water as a K-12 science idea often divorces its properties from its deeply politicized history as a resource that has been limited, compromised, and intentionally withheld from nondominant communities. Although a robust body of scholarship has aptly critiqued decontextualized and depoliticized pedagogies and called for critical…
Descriptors: Water Pollution, Elementary School Science, Science Instruction, Political Issues
Vitale, Jonathan M.; Applebaum, Lauren; Linn, Marcia C. – Cognition and Instruction, 2019
Graphs illustrating complex scientific relationships require students to integrate multiple concepts and visual features into a coherent understanding. We investigate ways to support students in integrating their understanding of density concepts through a graph that is linked to a simulation depicting the relationship between mass, volume, and…
Descriptors: Graphs, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Grade 8
Radoff, Jennifer; Jaber, Lama Ziad; Hammer, David – Cognition and Instruction, 2019
We study the case of Marya, a freshman engineering major who showed and spoke of a drastic shift in her feelings and approach to learning physics during an introductory course. For the first several weeks, she was anxiously manipulating equations without considering physical meaning, and she was terribly worried about being correct. By the end of…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Engineering Education, Physics, Science Instruction
Steier, Rolf; Kersting, Magdalena – Cognition and Instruction, 2019
Though we live in a 4-dimensional universe, our minds and bodies are not particularly good at perceiving and depicting 4 dimensions. This study contributes to our understanding of collaboration with abstract concepts by examining particular activities where bodily and experiential understandings may conflict with the conceptual domain.…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Imagination, Secondary School Science, Secondary School Students