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Vogelzang, Johannes; Admiraal, Wilfried F.; van Driel, Jan H. – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2021
Teaching with Scrum methodology includes ceremonies, roles and artefacts supporting students in planning, monitoring and directing their learning process. It scaffolds students' learning in complex and sometimes overwhelming context-based learning environments. Effects of the implementation on both students' learning outcomes and self-reported…
Descriptors: Secondary School Science, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
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Lee, Silvia Wen-Yu; Wu, Hsin-Kai; Chang, Hsin-Yi – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2021
The aim of the study was to investigate students' views of model evaluation through the lens of personal epistemology. We developed an integrated analytical framework by combining a developmental framework, including absolutist, multiplist, and evaluatist, with a multi-dimensional framework, including limits of knowing, certainty of knowing, and…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Grade 11, Grade 8, Student Attitudes
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Vogler, Jane S.; Thompson, Penny; Davis, David W.; Mayfield, Blayne E.; Finley, Patrick M.; Yasseri, Dar – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2018
This two-year qualitative study explored the learning process alongside students' perceived outcomes within an interdisciplinary project-based learning (PjBL) task. Students from three different undergraduate courses were assigned a project that spanned across all three classes and placed student teams in the roles of client and contractor.…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Teamwork, Qualitative Research
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Prinz, Anja; Golke, Stefanie; Wittwer, Jörg – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2018
Research shows that misconceptions are usually detrimental to text comprehension. However, whether misconceptions also impair metacomprehension accuracy, that is, the accuracy with which one self-assesses one's text comprehension, has received far less attention. We conducted a study in which we examined students' (N = 47) comprehension and…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Metacognition, Accuracy, Statistics
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Sinatra, Gale M.; Kardash, CarolAnne M.; Taasoobshirazi, Gita; Lombardi, Doug – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2012
This study examined the relationship among cognitive and motivational variables impacting college students' willingness to take mitigative action to reduce the impacts of human-induced climate change. One hundred and forty college students were asked to read a persuasive text about human-induced climate change and were pre- and post-tested on…
Descriptors: College Students, Persuasive Discourse, Attitude Change, Climate