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Direct linkCirkony, Connie – International Journal of Science Education, 2023
To promote scientific literacy in school science, students need to learn key concepts in science, along with the nature of scientific knowledge and how it is generated. Ideally, this learning mirrors authentic scientific inquiry through student engagement in three key epistemic practices: flexibility and creativity, knowledge construction, and…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Authentic Learning, Inquiry, Active Learning
Felicity McLure; Mihye Won; David F. Treagust – International Journal of Science Education, 2023
Understanding mechanisms underpinning formation of convection currents is pivotal for developing explanations of plate tectonics when teaching Geoscience topics. While student generated diagrams explaining convection currents may be used to evaluate student conceptual understanding and alternative conceptions in this topic, students may need…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Grade 8, Visual Aids, Plate Tectonics
Boublil, Shachar; Blair, David; Treagust, David F. – Teaching Science, 2023
The demand for improving student interest in science has increased efforts toward teaching Einstein's theory of general relativity in schools. Research has already shown that teaching Einsteinian gravity at the secondary level is feasible, however, appropriate resources must be readily available for science teachers to make Einsteinian gravity…
Descriptors: Science Experiments, Scientific Concepts, Physics, Middle School Students
Won, A-Rang; Choi, Su-Yeon; Chu, Hye-Eun; Cha, Hyun-Jung; Shin, Hyeonjeong; Kim, Chan-Jong – Asia-Pacific Science Education, 2021
Teachers do not simply deliver a set curriculum, but carry out classes based on practical knowledge, including their values, beliefs, and experiences. Therefore, it is meaningful to investigate the practical knowledge of teaching among teachers in terms of orientation, structure, and content in order to understand the teacher's knowledge,…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Science and Society, STEM Education, Art Education
Cirkony, Connie; Tytler, Russell; Hubber, Peter – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2022
Inquiry-based representation-focused approaches in science education have shown promising outcomes when students engage in knowledge building via an active process of constructing, coordinating, and evaluating representations. To date, much of the existing research around these approaches has taken place in pre-digital classrooms, but the…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Instruction, Inquiry, Active Learning
Dawson, Vaille; Venville, Grady – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2022
Background: An overarching goal of school science education is to prepare young people for a rapidly changing and complex world. Middle school science students need more than a basic understanding of science concepts in preparation for further study. Rather, they need the skills to question and evaluate evidence and make decisions about complex…
Descriptors: Science and Society, Middle School Students, Persuasive Discourse, Thinking Skills
Sullivan, Tiana; Slater, Ben; Phan, Judy; Tan, Amanda; Davis, James – Teaching Science, 2019
The present study provides an illustration of how m-learning may be applied in school science contexts while simultaneously evaluating the accuracy and reliability of mobile phone functionality relating to the measurement of sound. The aim of this study is to report on the use of mobile phones as data collection tools in the context of a science…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Educational Technology, Science Instruction, Elementary School Science
Martin, Andrew J.; Kennett, Roger; Pearson, Joel; Mansour, Marianne; Papworth, Brad; Malmberg, Lars-Erik – Educational Psychology, 2021
While completing a science test and science survey, 155 high school students wore a biometric wristband (measuring electrodermal activity; EDA) and self-reported their science self-efficacy and science anxiety. Adopting a challenge-threat appraisal perspective and latent profile analysis, we explored how students were psychologically…
Descriptors: High School Students, Anxiety, Self Efficacy, Physiology
Lederman, Judith; Lederman, Norman; Bartels, Selina; Jimenez, Juan; Akubo, Mark; Aly, Shereen; Bao, Chengcheng; Blanquet, Estelle; Blonder, Ron; Bologna Soares de Andrade, Mariana; Buntting, Catherine; Cakir, Mustafa; EL-Deghaidy, Heba; ElZorkani, Ahmed; Gaigher, Estelle; Guo, Shuchen; Hakanen, Arvi; Hamed Al-Lal, Soraya; Han-Tosunoglu, Cigdem; Hattingh, Annemarie; Hume, Anne; Irez, Serhat; Kay, Gillian; Kivilcan Dogan, Ozgur; Kremer, Kerstin; Kuo, Pi-Chu; Lavonen, Jari; Lin, Shu-Fen; Liu, Cheng; Liu, Enshan; Liu, Shiang-Yao; Lv, Bin; Mamlok-Naaman, Rachel; McDonald, Christine; Neumann, Irene; Pan, Yaozhen; Picholle, Eric; Rivero García, Ana; Rundgren, Carl-Johan; Santibáñez-Gómez, David; Saunders, Kathy; Schwartz, Renee; Voitle, Frauke; von Gyllenpalm, Jakob; Wei, Fangbing; Wishart, Jocelyn; Wu, Zhifeng; Xiao, Huang; Yalaki, Yalcin; Zhou, Qiaoxue – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2019
Although understandings of scientific inquiry (as opposed to conducting inquiry) are included in science education reform documents around the world, little is known about what students have learned about inquiry during their elementary school years. This is partially due to the lack of any assessment instrument to measure understandings about…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Middle School Students, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Price, Colin – Teaching Science, 2019
This article proposes an evidence-based and engaging approach to teaching the mechanisms driving the movement of tectonic plates that should lead high school students towards the prevalent theories used in peer-reviewed science journals and taught in universities. The methods presented replace the inaccurate and outdated focus on mantle convection…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Plate Tectonics, Science Instruction, High School Students
Download full textFilipi, Anna; Nguyen, Minh Hue; Berry, Amanda – TESOL in Context, 2022
The recent implementation of The Victorian Curriculum F-10: EAL requires content teachers who teach EAL students to be familiar with the revised EAL curriculum for the purposes of planning and developing approaches to assist learners' development in English. In the literature and in curriculum frameworks, word knowledge is considered an important…
Descriptors: Curriculum Implementation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development
Mills, Reece; Scholes, Laura; Stahl, Garth; McDonald, Sarah; Comber, Barbara; Brownlee, Jo Lunn – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
Few studies in science education have examined how place-based experiences influence students' STEM career aspirations. Rural school students' lived experiences of place and non-traditional STEM career aspirations such as farming are scarcely considered in dominant narratives around science aspirations and career pathways. Adopting a critical…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Foreign Countries, Ethnography, Career Choice
Berger, Nathan; Mackenzie, Erin; Holmes, Kathryn – Australian Educational Researcher, 2020
Australia has seen declining numbers of students choosing mathematics and science subjects in the senior secondary years, running counter to economic projections of an accelerating need for science and mathematics skills. Many students become less engaged with these subjects in the junior secondary years but attitudes such as self-concept, utility…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Junior High School Students, Grade 8, Student Attitudes
Stahl, Garth; Scholes, Laura; McDonald, Sarah; Lunn, Jo – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2021
This paper explores how geographies of place and familial relationships influence the formation of 'science capital' and a 'science identity', which are widely considered influential to sustained engagement in the sciences. Drawing on interviews with 45 Year 8 students from two diverse locales in Australia, we analyse science-related forms of…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Science Education, Scientific Literacy, Cultural Capital
Kathryn Paige; Lisa O'Keeffe; Samuel Osborne – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
Teachers, pre-service teachers and teacher educators in Australia are predominately European Australian with a small minority of First Nations people. Those with limited first-hand understanding of First Nations ways of knowing can find it difficult to embed these knowledges across learning areas. This is particularly complex for pre-service…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations
