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Nicole Vick; Nina Blanton – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Educators have struggled with maintaining student engagement in science, especially as students transition from primary to middle school and upper grades (Vedder-Weiss & Fortus, 2012). A recent push in science education has been the adoption of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), released in 2013, whose development was guided by…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Curriculum, Secondary School Science, Science Achievement
Nina Blanton; Nicole Vick – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Educators have struggled with maintaining student engagement in science, especially as students transition from primary to middle school and upper grades (Vedder-Weiss & Fortus, 2012). A recent push in science education has been the adoption of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), released in 2013, whose development was guided by…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Curriculum, Secondary School Science, Science Achievement
Emily Cole Harris – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This quasi-experimental study aimed to determine if there is a statistically significant difference in student test scores when a modified instructional sequence in middle school science is used versus the instructional sequence suggested by the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Grade 8 science cumulative Standards of Learning (SOL) test results from…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Standardized Tests, Scores, Grade 8
Lopez-Simo, Victor; Grimalt-Alvaro, Carme; Sanmarti, Neus – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2023
In this research, we have explored the possible differences in students' performance in grade nine chemistry exams that could have been influenced by a different instructional approach in grade eight. We compared two groups of students: one group had received a transmissive propaedeutic approach in grade eight (especially related to the memorising…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Competency Based Education, Chemistry, Science Instruction
Florian Budimaier; Martin Hopf – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Although there has been extensive research on students' understanding of the particulate nature of matter (PNM), there is still a lack of research on contexts that can be used to teach this challenging topic. In a previous design-based research study, the authors developed a teaching-learning sequence (TLS) on the PNM in the context of crystal…
Descriptors: Physics, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Science Instruction
Jeffrey Gordon – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Student' achievement in science can be affected by teacher subject matter knowledge, ineffective instructional methods, and lack of student engagement. Although all schools provide professional development opportunities, not all teachers choose to engage in a program that provides teaching and learning through experiential techniques for the…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Faculty Development, Academic Achievement, Science Achievement
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
Hikmet Sevgin; Anil Kadir Eranil – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2023
In this study, in line with TIMSS 2019 data, 8th grade students' school engagement in the Turkish education system and various variables in the field of science and mathematics, which are thought to be related to school engagement, were examined with the Random Forest method, a method amongst data mining methods. This research focuses on student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, International Assessment
Dormody, Thomas J.; Skelton, Peter; Rodriguez, Gabrielle; Dubois, David W.; VanLeeuwen, Dawn – Journal of Extension, 2020
At an Extension youth agricultural science center, our team developed and pilot tested a five-lesson weather and climate science curriculum for middle school-aged youths. As part of the endeavor, we conducted an item analysis of the five worksheets used across the lessons and determined relationships between worksheet scores and pretest/posttest…
Descriptors: Worksheets, Weather, Climate, Rural Extension
Addido, Johannes – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Teaching science concepts for conceptual understanding has its challenges. Promoting conceptual change in the science classroom can be difficult because most concepts are complicated and counter-intuitive. This dissertation research aimed to determine the effect of teaching for conceptual understanding models on pre-service teachers' conceptual…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Misconceptions
Craney, Chris L.; Lau, Thomas; Nelson, William T.; Ghomeshi, Adrianna; Rust, James M.; de Groot, Robert M.; Dennis, Donovan P.; Robertson, Ellen; Kissel, Jessica – Journal of Chemical Education, 2020
The Japanese lesson study (JLS) model for curriculum development has seen limited application to middle school science classrooms. The JLS model was used to develop and refine three hands-on activities focused on four major eighth grade science topics from the California curriculum. Prior assessments of these topics showed limited understanding by…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Middle School Students, Grade 8, Educational Change
Gong, Tao; Shuai, Lan; Arslan, Burcu; Jiang, Yang Jiang – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2020
This paper investigates differences in students having various scores when designing controlled experiments in two types of scientific inquiry tasks (a fair test and an exhaustive test). We measure temporal features of preparation time and execution time, which reflect respectively the process of question understanding and answer planning and that…
Descriptors: Science Experiments, Time, Inquiry, Scores
Kunze, Andrea; Cromley, Jennifer G. – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
Given the strong relationships found between high-level learning strategies such as drawing and summarising, and student comprehension and performance, we have seen an increase in drawing-to-learn strategy research. Despite the trend and promise of drawing-to-learn, many of the studies have been limited to high school and undergraduate chemistry…
Descriptors: Freehand Drawing, Learning Strategies, Science Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness
Susilawati; Aznam, Nurfina; Paidi – European Journal of Educational Research, 2022
It should be noted that learning outcomes are not students' only achievement; attitude is also the main output in learning. This research explores students' attitudes toward science learning based on gender and the grade level of schools in Aceh, Indonesia. The participants are 1,023 students from the sixth grade of primary schools and the eighth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students
Dogan, Alev; Kahraman, Emine – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2021
Recently, potential effects of STEM activities on students in science education are among important research topics. Therefore, in this study, the effect of STEM activity practices on the scientific creativity of middle school students was investigated. The research sample consists of 98 (experimental group = 50 students, control group = 48…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Science Activities, Science Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness