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Download full textLeyla Ayverdi; Derya Girgin; Ismail Satmaz; Eylem Yalçinkaya Önder – Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 2025
This study employed a mixed-methods design to investigate the impact of activities developed by the Ministry of National Education (MoNE) on the scientific creativity and scientist perceptions of gifted 5th-grade students. The research used a one-group pretest-posttest design with a sample of 22 students from a Science and Art Education Centre in…
Descriptors: Science Curriculum, Science Activities, Academically Gifted, Foreign Countries
Osman Urhan; Ercan Akpinar – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2024
Recently, Virtual reality (VR) technologies have started to be used increasingly in the field of education, as in many other fields. With the widespread use of virtual reality applications, there is a need to investigate the effects of virtual reality applications in the field of education. The results obtained from these researches can contribute…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Science, Science Instruction
Nurdan Akgun; Seyda Gul – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2024
This study aims to develop a test to measure sixth grade students' success in 'Circulatory System'. For this purpose, a draft test containing 22 questions was prepared by the researchers. And then, the draft test was submitted to expert opinion and examined in terms of language and content. Following expert opinions, the 22 multiple-choice…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Human Body, Test Construction, Science Education
Yuksel, Tugba; Bryan, Lynn A. – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2023
This research investigates the Models of eighth-grade students in Turkey pertaining to magnets and magnetic interactions, while also examining the consistency of these models within themselves. Additionally, a comparative assessment is conducted by comparing the current data with data collected from eighth-grade students a decade earlier. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Models, Grade 8, Secondary School Students
Pinar Baspinar; Jale Çakiroglu; Engin Karahan – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2024
Astronomy education is essential for STEM education in primary schools, and integrating engineering design-based science education enhances student engagement and achievement in the field of space science. Integrating engineering design into science education is essential for students to excel in astronomy and to meet the requirements of…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Middle Schools, Grade 6, Astronomy
Sayiner Tug; Bahadir Namdar – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2024
This study aimed to investigate grade-7 students' negotiation during the engineering design process regarding the students' status of argumentation training. The participants were 33 students studying at a public urban middle school in Turkey. They worked in small groups on four engineering design tasks about electricity and light. Data were…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Engineering Education, Design, Grade 7
Özalp, Dilek – Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2023
Science textbooks play an important role in making scientific knowledge and applications available to learners. In most countries, science curriculum expects to cultivate scientifically literate individuals who are able to use science process skills. Critical analysis of textbooks is therefore crucial to determine whether they can facilitate this…
Descriptors: Science Education, Textbooks, Textbook Content, Elementary Schools
Kara, Filiz – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2022
The aim of this research is to determine the misconceptions of students about the subject of the moon and to examine the effects of science lesson with reflective science diaries on the achievements of students and eliminating their misconceptions. The research designed according to the pretest-posttest control group model among the experimental…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Diaries
Keles, Pinar Ural; Çepni, Salih – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2019
In this study, it is aimed to evaluate the drama activities conducted in fifth grade science subjects with a developed analytical rubric. The study was conducted using case study. The sample of the study consists of 26 students attending 5th grade in a public school located in the Akçaabat district of Trabzon province. In the study, four groups…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Scoring Rubrics, Drama, Elementary School Students
Direct linkKarsli Baydere, Fethiye – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2021
The main purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of the Context-Based Approach (CBA) enriched by Prediction-Observation-Explanation (POE) on 5th grade students' conceptual understanding of the States of Matter, Heat and Temperature. In this study, quantitative and qualitative data collection methods were employed. The quantitative…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Chemistry
Parlakay, Eda Salman; Koç, Yasemin – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2020
This study aims to investigate the effects of Science Technology Education Math (STEM) practices on academic achievement and motivations of students in the 5th grade of middle school in "Exploring and Knowing the World of Living Creatures" section in Science lecture. The study was designed in a semi-experimental pattern with pre-test…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Academic Achievement, Student Motivation, Grade 5
Soysal, Yilmaz – Learning: Research and Practice, 2020
This study presents an in-depth exploration of the types of discursive functions of teacher questioning and the potential cognitive correspondences embedded in the questioning. The participants were a science teacher and his class of 26 sixth-grade students who were engaged in an immersion science inquiry activity. The major data source was a…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Questioning Techniques
The Predictive Effect of Some Variables on Fifth and Sixth Grade Students' Scientific Process Skills
Tosun, Cemal – Journal of Education in Science, Environment and Health, 2020
The aim of this research was to investigate whether there was a predictive effect of the frequency of laboratory use of students, their academic success and attending various opportunities to learn science outside the classroom on the fifth and sixth grade students' scientific process skills performance (SPSP). Also, it was investigated whether…
Descriptors: Science Process Skills, Grade 5, Grade 6, Elementary School Science
Ozkan, Gulbin; Umdu Topsakal, Unsal – Elementary School Forum (Mimbar Sekolah Dasar), 2021
This study aims at analyzing the learning outcomes of the 2018 science education curricula in Turkey according to science process skills. Learning outcomes are statements that describe what a learner will know, understand, and/or be able to do after completing a learning process. Learning outcomes were evaluated using document analysis which is a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Science Curriculum, Outcomes of Education
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
