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Varoglu, Lutfiye; Yilmaz, Ayhan; Sen, Senol – Pedagogical Research, 2023
This study aims to examine the effect of conceptual understandings related to anion-cation, acid-base, ionic-covalent, metal-nonmetal, and number of protons-number of electrons concept pairs taught in the periodic table to 8th grade students with the 5E learning model supported by concept maps. The study was conducted among 100 (50 in the…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Models
Hasan Gökçe; Oguzhan Nacaroglu; Seyide Eroglu – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2024
Within the scope of the current study, the researchers developed activities for middle school students to raise their awareness on the harm of plastics and microplastics, which are detrimental to nature and living things. In addition, through the activities developed, the study aimed to provide students with knowledge of and experience with…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Plastics, Hazardous Materials, Grade 8
Jin, Haiyue; Wong, Khoon Yoong – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2023
Mathematics curricula from many countries have emphasized conceptual understanding as more important than the mastery of isolated skills. However, researchers and educators have used different measures to access students' conceptual understanding of mathematics. Thus, it seems necessary to further explore whether and to what extent different…
Descriptors: Geometric Concepts, Middle School Mathematics, Middle School Students, Grade 8
Hwang, Gwo-Jen; Huang, Hsin; Wang, Ruo-Xuan; Zhu, Li-Li – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2021
In language courses, it is important to foster students' systematic thinking and to develop their competence to express, appreciate, criticize and reflect, in particular in such courses as classical Chinese, which aim to develop students' cultural and literature knowledge. Problem posing is a promising strategy to achieve this objective. However,…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 8, Concept Mapping, Problem Solving
Lütfiye Varoglu; Ayhan Yilmaz; Senol Sen – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2024
The examination of students' motivation towards lessons is an important aspect of educational studies. The constructivist approach significantly impacts the improvement of students' motivation. The present study aims to examine the use of the 5E learning model with concept maps to support students' motivation and compare the 5E approach and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Science, Chemistry
Coyne-Foresi, Melissa; Nowicki, Elizabeth – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2021
Most peer mentoring studies have focused on outcomes for mentees. This investigation examines seventh- and eighth-grade youth mentors' roles in providing support and companionship to younger peer mentees. Group concept mapping (GCM) explored youth mentors' reflections on the connections and relationships made through a peer mentoring program, 2 to…
Descriptors: Mentors, Peer Relationship, Grade 7, Grade 8
Woldeamanuel, Yenenesh Workneh; Abate, Nega Tassie; Berhane, Dessalegn Ejigu – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2020
Concept mapping helps learners to understand complex ideas. However, studies confirming that statement are scarce. A quasi-experimental and Design-based approaches were applied to understand the effectiveness of concept mapping based teaching method on grade eight students' conceptual understanding of photosynthesis. Two sections of grade eight…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Concept Teaching, Scientific Concepts, Plants (Botany)
McDonald, Scott; Bateman, Kathryn; Gall, Helen; Tanis-Ozcelik, Arzu; Webb, Aubree; Furman, Tanya – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2019
Plate tectonics is the organizing paradigm of geosciences, but it is also conceptually complex, and students often struggle with developing a system level understanding of the earth. This article reports on research designed to create a characterization of the different levels of sophistication around plate tectonics in the form of a learning…
Descriptors: Plate Tectonics, Earth Science, Grade 6, Grade 7
Kiliçoglu, Gökçe – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2018
Purpose of this study is to determine cognitive structures, conceptual knowledge and misconceptions of the 8th grade students concerning concepts of citizenship through a word association test. In direction of this purpose, a word association test consisting of democracy, sovereignty, independency, freedom, right and responsibility concepts have…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Cognitive Structures, Citizenship, Foreign Countries
Jin, Haiyue; Wong, Khoon Yoong – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2015
Conceptual understanding is a major aim of mathematics education, and concept map has been used in non-mathematics research to uncover the relations among concepts held by students. This article presents the results of using concept map to assess conceptual understanding of basic algebraic concepts held by a group of 48 grade 8 Chinese students.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts
Güccük, Ahmet; Köksal, Mustafa Serdar – Journal of Biological Education, 2017
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of case teaching on how students learn about genetic engineering, in terms of meaningful learning and retention of learning. The study was designed as quasi-experimental research including 63 8th graders (28 boys and 35 girls). To collect data, genetic engineering achievement tests were…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Genetics, Concept Mapping
Won, Mihye; Krabbe, Heiko; Ley, Siv Ling; Treagust, David F.; Fischer, Hans E. – Educational Assessment, 2017
In this study, we investigated the value of a concept map marking guide as an alternative formative assessment tool for science teachers to adopt for the topic of energy. Eight high school science teachers marked students' concept maps using an itemized holistic marking guide. Their marking was compared with the researchers' marking and the scores…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Concept Mapping, Formative Evaluation
Sun, Jerry Chih-Yuan; Lee, Kuan-Hsien – Educational Technology & Society, 2016
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the feasibility of the integration of concept maps and tablet PCs in anti-phishing education for enhancing students' learning motivation and achievement. The subjects were 155 students from grades 8 and 9. They were divided into an experimental group (77 students) and a control group (78 students). To begin…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Teaching Methods, Concept Mapping, Handheld Devices
Huang, Chenn-Jung; Chang, Shun-Chih; Chen, Heng-Ming; Tseng, Jhe-Hao; Chien, Sheng-Yuan – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
Structured argumentation support environments have been built and used in scientific discourse in the literature. However, to the best our knowledge, there is no research work in the literature examining whether student's knowledge has grown during learning activities with asynchronous argumentation. In this work, an intelligent computer-supported…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Cooperative Learning, Natural Sciences, Science Education
Hwang, Gwo-Jen; Panjaburee, Patcharin; Triampo, Wannapong; Shih, Bo-Ying – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2013
Diagnosing student learning barriers has been recognized as the most fundamental and important issue for improving the learning achievements of students. In the past decade, several learning diagnosis approaches have been proposed based on the concept-effect relationship (CER) model. However, past studies have shown that the effectiveness of this…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Learning Problems, Models, Concept Mapping