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Alkan, Muhammet Fatih; Günseli, Gülten – Online Submission, 2022
THS is applied to Science High Schools, Social Sciences High Schools, Anatolian Technical Programs of Vocational and Technical Anatolian High Schools and Project schools for student selection. With THS, approximately 10 percent of more than one million students are placed in a secondary education institution based on their preferences. The purpose…
Descriptors: Science Achievement, Student Adjustment, Scores, Gender Differences
Sarikaya, Dilek; Aydin, Abdullah – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2022
The aim of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of the Education Information Network (EBA) and experimental supported activities on students' science attitude and 7th grade students' views about these activities in the teaching of the electrical circuits unit. The research was carried out with 73 students studying at a state secondary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Grade 7, Science Instruction
Susan M. Kowalski; Scott J. Peters; Megan Kuhfeld; Gustave Robinson; Karyn Lewis – NWEA, 2024
This brief continues ongoing research by NWEA® examining the degree to which the COVID-19 pandemic, and its associated school closures, influenced student learning. Prior research focused on math and reading and found that the pandemic's negative impact steadily accumulated during the 2020-2021 school year, with significant disparities in…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
Rachmatullah, Arif – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation conducted a science classroom intervention using two instructional approaches, computational modeling and paper-based pictorial modeling, in the context of food webs. A series of research papers were written on the impact of the intervention on students' attitudes and learning, and on teachers via professional development and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Food, Intervention
Hild, Pitt; Gut, Christoph; Brückmann, Maja – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2019
Background: Several different measures have been proposed to solve persistent validity problems, such as high task-sampling variability, in the assessment of students' expertise in 'doing science'. Such measures include working with a-priori progression models, using standardised item shells and rating manuals, augmenting the number of tasks per…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Science Tests, Science Process Skills, Test Validity
Kaya, Hasan; Saylan Kirmizigul, Asli – Online Submission, 2019
The present study was conducted to explore the effect of the use of computer-aided and inquiry-based teaching approaches on 7th grade students' anxiety towards science. The research was carried out in the spring semester of 2016-2017 academic year with the participation of 69 students from two classes of a middle school in Kayseri, Turkey. The…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Active Learning, Inquiry, Instructional Effectiveness
Koray, Özlem; Çetinkiliç, Sercan – Science Education International, 2020
This study aimed to investigate the effect of critical reading (CR) practices in science courses on academic achievement, science performance level, and problem-solving skills. The experimental method and factorial design were used. The study was conducted with 102 seventh-grade students from a public school in Turkey during the 2014-2015 academic…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Science Materials, Content Area Reading
Maria D. LaRusso; Shireen Al-Adeimi; Ha Yeon Kim; Allen G. Harbaugh; Catherine O'Connor – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2024
This paper introduces the LIDO, or the Low-Inference Discourse Observation tool, that captures discourse moves produced by students and teachers in whole-classroom discussions. Coding methods are described, followed by analyses that explore validity of the LIDO through correlations among LIDO-coded discourse moves and between LIDO scores and…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Grade 7, Language Arts
Warner, Jayce R.; Fletcher, Carol L.; Garbrecht, Lisa S. – Texas Education Research Center, 2019
This study examined the impact of a multi-year, large-scale professional development program on student achievement in mathematics and science. Math and science teachers at the elementary and secondary levels who participated in the professional development program were matched to a control group. Results revealed no differences in State of Texas…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Program Effectiveness, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
Kim, Gahyoung; Ko, Yeonjoo; Lee, Hyunju – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2020
This study aimed to investigate how the community-based socioscientific issues program (SSI-COMM) affected middle school students' sense of place (SOP) and character development as citizens. We designed and implemented SSI-COMM on fine dust, abandoned pets, and recycling issues that were closely related to the students' local communities. SSI-COMM…
Descriptors: Science and Society, Place Based Education, Middle School Students, Grade 7
Namudar Izzet Kurbanoglu; Fatma Koç Nefes – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2016
Context-based questions can be effective in reducing test anxiety and increasing science achievement. The purpose of this research was to determine the effects of context-based questions on the test anxiety and science achievement of secondary school students enrolled in a science course, in relation to gender. Seventy students who were found to…
Descriptors: Science Education, Gender Differences, Test Anxiety, Rating Scales
Korur, Fikret; Enil, Gizem; Göçer, Gizem – Journal of Educational Research, 2016
The authors mainly aimed to investigate the following question: Are there any significant effects of the first combined method of a conceptual change approach with refutation text, worksheets, and activities with respect to the second combined method of a conceptual change approach with conceptual texts, presentations, and activities on students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Astronomy
Korur, Fikret; Toker, Sacip; Eryilmaz, Ali – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2016
This two-group quasi-experimental study investigated the effects of the Online Advance Organizer Concept Teaching Material (ONACOM) integrated with inquiry teaching and expository teaching methods. Grade 7 students' posttest performances on the light unit achievement and light unit attitude tests controlled for gender, previous semester science…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Science Achievement, Instructional Materials, Scientific Attitudes
Michel, Hanno; Neumann, Irene – Science & Education, 2016
Besides viewing knowledge about the nature of science (NOS) as important for its own value with respect to scientific literacy, an adequate understanding of NOS is expected to improve science content learning by fostering the ability to interrelate scientific concepts and, thus, coherently acquire scientific content knowledge. However, there is a…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Grade 6, Grade 7, Energy
Cetin-Dindar, Ayla – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2016
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relation between constructivist learning environment and students'motivation to learn science by testing whether students' self-efficacy in learning science, intrinsically and extrinsically motivated science learning increase and students' anxiety about science assessment decreases when more…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Constructivism (Learning), Science Education, Teaching Methods