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Alfi Mufidah; Wirawan Fadly; Juan David Martinez Zayas – Journal of Science Learning, 2024
Communication skills require students to be able to manage, understand, develop, and create orally and in writing. Teaching methods that generally use conventional models of learning activities that are not formed in groups cause students' science communication skills to be lacking, so learning activities are more teacher-centered. This learning…
Descriptors: Junior High School Students, Communication Skills, Grade 8, Sciences
Pashmina N. Pathan; Nor A. Ishak; Nabeel Nisar; Shaiwana N. Pathan – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative exploratory study is to get insights into the understanding of science teachers' entrepreneurial skills and the strategies they implement to develop these skills of students, who teach science subject to students of Grade 6-8 at government Schools of Sindh province, Pakistan. In this study, the researcher employed a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Grade 6, Grade 7
Emma Stevenson; Merryn Dawborn-Gundlach; Jan van Driel – Teaching Science, 2024
Being scientifically literate is an essential twenty-first century skill for every individual navigating today's complex world and science inquiry skills are seen as an important capability of a scientific literate person. However, teaching science inquiry skills requires specific competences and is often challenging for teachers. Understanding…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Inquiry, Secondary School Teachers, Grade 7
María del Mar López-Fernández; Francisco González-García; Antonio Joaqui´n Franco-Mariscal – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
Socio-scientific issues demonstrate the relationship between science, technology, and society by considering currently unresolved questions. The problem of plastics and their pollution is just one example with important implications for the planet. The aim of this paper is to revisit socio-scientific issues and see them as a way of developing…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Citizen Participation
Sasmaz-Oren, Fatma; Karapinar, Aysegul; Sari, Kubranur; Demirer, Tugba – Journal of Theoretical Educational Science, 2022
In recent years, countries have focused specifically on improving thinking skills in their science education programs. One of the science lesson methods that can be used to activate the use of thinking processes is scientific scenarios. In this direction, the aim of the study is to investigate the effect of socioscientific subject-based…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Vignettes, Science and Society
Khan, Khateeb Ahmed; Rana, Rizwan Akram – Bulletin of Education and Research, 2021
This study focused on finding out the influence of higher order thinking instructional model on grade VIII students' scientific reasoning. The quasi-experimental nonequivalent control group design was used to conduct this study. Experiment was conducted on 62 grade VIII students from a public higher secondary school of district Lahore, Pakistan.…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Secondary School Students, Adolescents, Grade 8
Soraya Abdulatief; Xolisa Guzula – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2024
Background: South Africa's "Language-in-Education Policy" (LiEP) provides for bi/multilingual education, but schools are only supported to choose monolingual English language policies from Grade 4 and ignore the learners' home language or languages as resources for learning. Many teachers translanguage orally, using the learners' home…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Writing (Composition), Code Switching (Language), Epistemology
Zorlu, Fulya; Sezek, Fatih – Journal of Theoretical Educational Science, 2020
The aim of the study was investigation of the effect of twice application of the Group Investigation method at different intervals on improvement of the students' academic achievement and science process skills in teaching the science lesson. Method of the study was a quasi-experimental design. The study used Solomon Four-group Experimental Design…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Science Instruction, Secondary School Science, Secondary School Students
Mete, Pelin; Subasi, Munevver – Journal of Education in Science, Environment and Health, 2021
This study aims to examine the relationship between approach achievement goals, the fear of shame embarrassment failure, and coping strategies in secondary school science courses. Academic coping was handled in four dimensions: positive, projective, denial, and non-coping. The sample of the study included 249 sixth, seventh, and eighth-grade…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Goal Orientation, Coping, Correlation
Darmaji; Kurniawan, Dwi Agus; Astalini; Perdana, Rahmat; Kuswanto; Ikhlas, Muhammad – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2020
The study used mixed-method design. Sample size of this study was 689 students employed total sampling technique. This study revealed that science process skill of students in learning science whether urban and rural areas are good. The independent sample t-test showed that there was a significance difference in students' science process skill in…
Descriptors: Science Process Skills, Thinking Skills, Critical Thinking, Skill Development
Krittaya Narathon; Jatuporn Khamsong; Wittaya Worapun – Higher Education Studies, 2024
This Study aim to investigate the effects of integrated inquiry-based and STEM education learning management on Thai grade 8 students' analytical thinking and learning achievement. The research employed a one-group experimental design with 37 grade 8 students from a public school in Khon Kaen Province, Thailand, selected through purposive…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Motion, Scientific Concepts, Physics
Farah, Nathalie; Ayoubi, Zalpha – Journal of Education in Science, Environment and Health, 2020
In contrast to traditional science instruction, which encourages students to memorize facts from textbooks, today's science instruction emphasizes the adoption of scientific process skills by students, as well as the teaching of critical thinking skills. Lebanese Chemistry teachers detected lack in middle school and high school students' critical…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Skill Development, Grade 8
Gobert, Janice D.; Moussavi, Raha; Li, Haiying; Sao Pedro, Michael; Dickler, Rachel – Grantee Submission, 2018
This chapter addresses students' data interpretation, a key NGSS inquiry practice, with which students have several different types of difficulties. In this work, we unpack the difficulties associated with data interpretation from those associated with warranting claims. We do this within the context of Inq-ITS (Inquiry Intelligent Tutoring…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Data Interpretation, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Science Instruction
Yildirim, Ilke; Bakirci, Hasan – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2019
This research aims to investigate the impact of Common Knowledge Construction Model (CKCM) based science education teaching on the entrepreneurship skills of the eight grade students. The participants of this research are 50 students; 25 in control group (10 girls and 15 boys) and 25 in experimental group (9 girls and 16 boys). Quasi-experimental…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Entrepreneurship, Models, Grade 8
Gamanik, Nisrina Meta; Sanjaya, Yayan; Rusyati, Lilit – Journal of Science Learning, 2019
This study treats students by role-play simulation for learning the human circulatory system. Creative skill and concept mastery to be assessed aspects at the end of learning. The method used in this research is the quasi-experimental method. The sample was taken by cluster random sampling technique with the population of students in 8th grade at…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Role Playing, Simulation, Creativity