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Nyberg, Kristin; Koerber, Susanne; Osterhaus, Christopher – Frontline Learning Research, 2022
Although scientific reasoning is not a formal, independent school subject, it is an increasingly important skill, especially for student learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subjects. To promote scientific reasoning effectively, it is important to know its influencing factors. While cognitive influences have been…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Science Education
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Egloff, Frank; Förster, Natalie; Souvignier, Elmar – Frontline Learning Research, 2019
Teachers' beliefs about teaching have been found to affect students' learning growth. The aim of this study was to investigate effects of teachers' constructivist and direct-transmissive beliefs on learners' reading progress and whether these effects are influenced by students' ability. We measured constructivist and direct-transmissive beliefs of…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Reading Ability, Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency
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Osterhaus, Christopher; Koerber, Susanne; Sodian, Beate – Frontline Learning Research, 2015
Experimentation skills are a central component of scientific thinking, and many studies have investigated whether and when primary-school children develop adequate experimentation strategies. However, the answers to these questions vary substantially depending on the type of task that is used: while discovery tasks, which require children to…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Experiments, Knowledge Level, Psychometrics