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Direct linkWang, Ya-Ling; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Research in Science Education, 2019
Students' conceptions of learning science and their relations with motive for learning may vary as the education level increases. This study aimed to compare the quantitative patterns in students' conceptions of learning science (COLS) and motives for learning science (MLS) across grade levels by adopting two survey instruments. A total of 768…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Motivation, Instructional Program Divisions, Foreign Countries
Download full textEmre-Akdogan, Elçin – Electronic Journal for Research in Science & Mathematics Education, 2023
This study explores high school students' and their mathematics teachers' mathematical discourses on the equal sign and variables in the classroom context. The participants in this case study were ninth graders and their mathematics teachers. The data were analyzed in terms of participants' routines, specifically ritual and explorative routines in…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, High School Students, Problem Solving, Equations (Mathematics)
Peker, Deniz; Wallace, Carolyn S. – Research in Science Education, 2011
The purpose of this qualitative interpretive research study was to examine high school students' written scientific explanations during biology laboratory investigations. Specifically, we characterized the types of epistemologies and forms of reasoning involved in students' scientific explanations and students' perceptions of scientific…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Student Attitudes, Science Laboratories, Biology
Boz, Yezdan; Yerdelen-Damar, Sevda; Aydemir, Nurdane; Aydemir, Murat – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2016
Background: Investigating factors contributing to chemistry achievement is important since it enables us to make more concrete instructional decisions related to improving students' chemistry achievement. Purpose: This study aimed to investigate how students' perceptions of learning environment, self-efficacy and gender are related to chemistry…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Student Attitudes, Beliefs
Lu, Tan-Ni; Cowie, Bronwen; Jones, Alister – Research in Science Education, 2010
This paper reports Grade 12 students' biology learning during interactive teaching classes in 2001 in Taiwan. The researcher as teacher, working within an interpretive framework, set out to improve her senior high school student biology teaching and learning. An intervention based on a social constructivist view of learning was designed,…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), High Schools, Intervention, Biology
Sesen, Burcin Acar; Tarhan, Leman – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2011
Background and purpose: Active-learning as a student-centered learning process has begun to take more interest in constructing scientific knowledge. For this reason, this study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of active-learning implementation on high-school students' understanding of "acids and bases". Sample: The sample of this…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries
Ogan-Bekiroglu, Feral; Sengul-Turgut, Gulsen – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2011
Background: Although research on epistemological beliefs has expanded over the past two decades, there are still some issues that need to be explored, such as whether epistemological beliefs are domain general or domain specific. Purpose: One of the purposes of this research was to determine if high school students' general epistemological beliefs…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Physics, Epistemology, High School Students
