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Mindy J. Chappell – Research in Science Education, 2024
This study examined the dimensions of the structure-agency dialectic embedded in students' embodied narratives of their science experiences. As three Black high school students with developed dancer identities used what I have named "ethnodance" to author and narrate their evolving science identity, I looked for structures that hindered…
Descriptors: High School Students, Personal Autonomy, Resistance (Psychology), Science Education
Chi, Shaohui; Wang, Zuhao; Liu, Xiufeng – Research in Science Education, 2023
This study aims to evaluate students' ability to process the context information embedded in chemistry problems. To achieve this goal, a diagnostic measurement instrument was developed, comprising 28 short-answer items embedded in seven context-based chemistry tasks. Four hundred and ninety-three ninth-graders took part in the testing in Jiangsu,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Grade 9, Chemistry
Waight, Noemi; Liu, Xiufeng; Whitford, Melinda – Research in Science Education, 2023
This study examined high school chemistry students' understandings of big ideas--matter and energy, how these understandings are related to macro and submicro representations and fine-grained distinguishing characteristics of students' explanations. The study was conducted in the context of computer-based models and model-based assessments.…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Scientific Concepts, Computer Assisted Instruction, Models
McLure, Felicity – Research in Science Education, 2023
Secondary school students find it difficult to write elaborated causal explanations of scientific phenomena. They frequently present their own opinions and write descriptions of their observations rather than linking observations with logical chains of causal reasoning, underpinned by a theoretical framework, to provide explanations of scientific…
Descriptors: High School Students, Writing (Composition), Scientific Concepts, Secondary School Students
Unsworth, Len; Herrington, Michele – Research in Science Education, 2023
The significance of the role of students' interpretation and creation of multiple forms of representation in science learning has long been established and advocated, but there is a paucity of research into the extent to which this emphasis in science education is reflected in high stakes final year high school science examinations. This study…
Descriptors: Visualization, High School Students, Science Tests, High Stakes Tests
Jian-Xin, Yao; Yu-Xuan, Xiang; Tian, Luo; Chu-Fan, Deng; Yu-Ying, Guo; Fortus, David – Research in Science Education, 2023
Triggered by the pilot of the "Gao-Kao" reform, the avoidance of physics courses in senior high school has aroused the concern of society in China. The factors that influence the motivation to learn physics are an important research topic, especially for countries that have a disciplinary-based education tradition in secondary school.…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Physics, High School Students, Foreign Countries
Chi, Shaohui; Wang, Zuhao – Research in Science Education, 2023
This study explored how peer feedback after hands-on scientific inquiry (SI) activities affected students' SI competence over time (6 weeks) by implementing an after-school intervention program in which 188 Chinese ninth-grade students (14-16 years old) participated during their first semester. A between-subject experimental design was used for…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Peer Evaluation, Hands on Science, Inquiry
Georgiou, Helen – Research in Science Education, 2023
There has been a strong narrative in Australia of falling attainment in high school science, with much of the campaign informed by results from international standardised tests such as Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), which shows a year-on-year decline in scientific literacy of Australian 15-year-old students. These results…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Standardized Tests, High School Students, Science Education
Lamb, Richard; Hoston, Douglas; Lin, Jing; Firestone, Jonah – Research in Science Education, 2022
The purpose of this study is to explore the impact of persistence within STEM learning environments as a function of cumulative stress and latent trauma. The biopsychosocial impact of prolonged stressors due to hostile environments and academic demands has deleterious health effects on historically underrepresented students who enter STEM…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Academic Persistence, STEM Education
Pham, Lam; Tytler, Russell – Research in Science Education, 2022
Many researchers have reported that bridging analogies can productively support students' scientific meaning-making. How this can be understood semiotically is, however, not well understood. This research followed an ethnographic case study approach to investigate Year 11 students meaning-making through a process of transduction (Kress, 2000;…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Chemistry, Science Process Skills, Ethnography
Ferguson, Joseph Paul – Research in Science Education, 2022
In science education, there is a now established focus on fostering students' meaning making through/as multimodal representations as part of their induction into the epistemic practices of the discipline. Increasingly, this agenda is aligned with an emphasis on nurturing students' creative reasoning, as researchers move to enrich theories of…
Descriptors: Science Education, Creative Thinking, Grade 10, Science Activities
Ngo, Thu; Unsworth, Len; Herrington, Michele – Research in Science Education, 2022
Students' difficulties interpreting diagrams remain a concern in science education. Research about improving diagram comprehension has included few studies of teachers' orchestration of language and gesture in explaining diagrams--and very few in senior high schools. Research with younger students and studies of research scientists' practice…
Descriptors: Science Education, Visual Aids, Comprehension, Nonverbal Communication
Murphy, Steve – Research in Science Education, 2022
Science education is essential for sustainability and prosperity. However, students from rural communities, arguably the future custodians of our environment and significant drivers of our economies, underperform in science education. In Australia, rural students generally lag behind metropolitan students in science achievement and engagement.…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, High School Students, Secondary School Science, Enrollment
Chen, Sitong; Wei, Bing – Research in Science Education, 2022
Students' science identity has been identified as an important construct that positively influences their learning engagement, persistence, and career intentions in science. This paper reported the process of developing and validating an instrument that can be used to assess high school students' science identity. The development of this…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Measures (Individuals), High School Students
Wang, Jianlan; Li, Qiqi; Luo, Ying – Research in Science Education, 2022
High-stakes testing (HST) is critical in the educational system of East-Asian countries like China, and the ongoing standards-based reform in many Western countries like the USA. HST has been criticized for corrupting an educational system through means like disengaging students from authentic learning. It seems that students' affective learning…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, High Stakes Tests, Science Tests