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Obaid, Teeba; Nesbit, John C.; Mahmoody Ghaidary, Ahmad; Jain, Misha; Hajian, Shiva – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2023
Understanding scientific phenomena requires learners to construct mental models of causal systems. Simulation-based discovery learning offers learners the opportunity to construct mental models and test them against the behavior of a simulation. The purpose of this study was to investigate sequential patterns of learner actions and utterances…
Descriptors: Inferences, Simulation, Discovery Learning, Science Education
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Liu, Chen-Chung; Wen, Cai-Ting; Chang, Hsin-Yi; Chang, Ming-Hua; Lai, Po-Han; Fan Chiang, Shih-Hsun; Yang, Chih-Wei; Hwang, Fu-Kwun – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2022
Virtual labs provide space for students to iteratively test, observe, and revise their understanding so as to improve their scientific literacy. However, one of the challenges that students face is that they need to think and act like scientists so as to be sensitively alert to methodological flaws and various sources of error. This study thus…
Descriptors: Science Laboratories, Computer Simulation, Science Process Skills, Educational Technology
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Kershaw, Trina C.; Lippman, Jordan P.; Fugate, Jennifer M. B. – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2018
Scientific knowledge, including the critical evaluation and comprehension of empirical articles, is a key skill valued by most undergraduate institutions for students within the sciences. Students often find it difficult to not only summarize empirical journal articles, but moreover to successfully grasp the quality and rigor of investigation…
Descriptors: Pretests Posttests, Undergraduate Students, Educational Research, Journal Articles