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Stephanie C. Playton; Gina M. Childers; Rebecca L. Hite – Research in Science Education, 2024
States and school districts in the USA have begun to create and implement curriculum to promote elementary students' nascent STEM-related interests and to generate their initial knowledge of careers in those fields. Evaluating the efficacy of such interventions warrants valid and reliable tools, which are not presently available for middle…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, STEM Careers, Knowledge Level, STEM Education
Prain, Vaughan; Xu, Lihua; Speldewinde, Christopher – Research in Science Education, 2023
There is a long tradition of teaching science through inquiry, with broad agreement about the form it should take. Students should investigate researchable questions; gather and analyse data; and develop and represent evidence-based claims. Authoritative teacher or textbook representations are generally used to guide this learning (Buckley &…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Inquiry
Zhai, Xiaoming; Haudek, Kevin C.; Ma, Wenchao – Research in Science Education, 2023
In this study, we developed machine learning algorithms to automatically score students' written arguments and then applied the cognitive diagnostic modeling (CDM) approach to examine students' cognitive patterns of scientific argumentation. We abstracted three types of skills (i.e., attributes) critical for successful argumentation practice:…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Measurement, Diagnostic Tests
Ennes, Megan; Jones, M. Gail; Chesnutt, Katherine; Cayton, Emily; Childers, Gina M. – Research in Science Education, 2023
Emerging research is documenting the critical role of a family's resources, beliefs, and behaviours related to science as factors that influence the career choices of youth. This exploratory study examined elementary aged youth participants' perceptions of the value of science in their future after participating in a year-long, museum-based,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Family Involvement, Science Instruction, Museums
Veith, Sonja Isabel – Research in Science Education, 2023
Sound is a very omnipresent physical phenomenon that plays a crucial role in our daily lives. It is essential for verbal communication and helps us orient ourselves. Children are especially affected by sound and its presence in their daily lives. This circumstance, and the subject-specific interesting facets of the topic of sound, make this…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Acoustics, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation
Daloos, Ma. Lara Angela Santos; Paderna, Edwehna Elinore S. – Research in Science Education, 2023
Collaborative-metacognitive use of science literature teaching approach (CMSLTA) refers to a researcher-made teaching approach from the Philippines that comprises four components, namely (a) formation of groups with three to four members who have varied reading comprehension ability and assigned rotating roles; (b) use of Scientific Method…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Science Instruction
Relative Effects of Classroom Utility Value Intervention on the Science Motivation of Girls and Boys
Shin, Dajung Diane; Lee, Minhye; Jung, Seoyeon Julie; Bong, Mimi – Research in Science Education, 2023
Emerging evidence attests to the need to intervene in young students' science motivation and achievement before their science motivation starts to dwindle. Heeding this call, we implemented a science utility value intervention for fifth and sixth graders in 23 classrooms (N = 550). Through five intervention sessions that consisted of diverse…
Descriptors: Intervention, Student Motivation, Science Education, Gender Differences
García-Fernández, Beatriz; Sobrino-Costoso, Carlos-Emeterio; Ruiz-Gallardo, José-Reyes – Research in Science Education, 2022
The research compares teachers' and their pupils' performance on plant nutrition. The misconceptions of 89 primary school children from one state school have been compared with those of their four teachers. A questionnaire and a drawing task were used for data collection. The results evidence that children and teachers have serious shortcomings…
Descriptors: Plants (Botany), Misconceptions, Scientific Concepts, Elementary School Students
Baji, Fatima; Haeusler, Carole – Research in Science Education, 2022
In common with many other countries, the Iranian science curriculum does not introduce primary children to atoms and molecules but instead leaves the teaching of these concepts until high school. This paper challenges this practice and describes the changes in elementary Iranian children's understanding of atoms and molecules following a 10-h…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Science Curriculum, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts
McLure, Felicity; Won, Mihye; Treagust, David F. – Research in Science Education, 2022
While there has been much interest in the power of student-generated multiple representations to promote student reasoning and conceptual understanding, most studies of student explanations have been of written artefacts or only included diagrams as an adjunct to written explanations. This approach may be because teachers do not have an accessible…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Visual Aids, Science Education, Student Evaluation
Tang, Kok-Sing; Park, Joonhyeong; Chang, Jina – Research in Science Education, 2022
This paper argues that meaning-making with multimodal representations in science learning is always contextualized within a genre and, conversely, what constitutes an ongoing genre also depends on a multimodal coordination of speech, gesture, diagrams, symbols, and material objects. In social semiotics, a genre is a culturally evolved way of doing…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Science Education, Freehand Drawing, Elementary School Science
Mambrey, Sophia; Schreiber, Nico; Schmiemann, Philipp – Research in Science Education, 2022
Regarding future ecological challenges, it is highly relevant for students to understand the processes within ecosystems and the effects of external influences on their conservation. Since ecosystems are complex, difficulties in learning are often examined from a systems thinking perspective. However, challenges also arise in other areas,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Environmental Education, Ecology, Student Attitudes
Falloon, Garry; Forbes, Anne; Stevenson, Michael; Bower, Matt; Hatzigianni, Maria – Research in Science Education, 2022
Makerspaces are recent additions to schools and have been promoted as a means of developing STEM knowledge and skills. According to literature, the practical nature of making supports deeper engagement with STEM concepts and enhances development of STEM capabilities such as creativity, critical thinking, problem solving and collaboration. However,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Elementary School Students, Printing, Technology Uses in Education
Lee, Yew-Jin; Wan, Dongsheng – Research in Science Education, 2022
There has been a longstanding interest in the kinds of scientific knowledge that primary science learners must know and be able to do, which comprise the intellectual demands in this subject. These prescriptions chiefly take guidance from national curriculum documents, especially in the form of their learning outcomes (LO) or learning standards.…
Descriptors: Semantics, Science Education, Outcomes of Education, Elementary School Students
Wan, Zhi Hong; So, Wing Mui Winnie; Zhan, Ying – Research in Science Education, 2022
This study developed and validated a scale of STEM project-based learning (PBL) experience, which comprises four dimensions: scientific inquiry, technological application, engineering design, and mathematical processing. The participants were 727 primary higher graders. Both within-network and between-network approaches were adopted to analyze the…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Measures (Individuals), STEM Education
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