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Paxinou, Evgenia; Georgiou, Martha; Kakkos, Vasilis; Kalles, Dimitrios; Galani, Lia – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2022
Background: An increasing number of educational institutions are incorporating virtual reality (VR) applications in the instruction methodology for their laboratory science courses. However, there is debate about the use of the physical vs. the virtual lab as according to research the former offers a positive research-training environment, whereas…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Science Laboratories, Science Instruction, Laboratory Equipment
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Schizas, Dimitrios; Psillos, Dimitris; Stamou, George – International Journal of Science Education, 2023
The present study investigates how Greek in-service secondary education biology teachers understand the unique features of school biology and physics when considering the biological theoretical edifice and method. Our theoretical framework focuses on important differences that exist between the neo-Darwinian and Newtonian worldviews, while our…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Biology, Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Kapsala, Nausica; Galani, Apostolia; Mavrikaki, Evangelia – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2022
The nature of science describes what science is, how it works, and its interactions with society under the perspectives of philosophy, history, sociology, and psychology of science. Understanding it is an essential aspect of scientific literacy. Given the critical role that school textbooks hold, considering what is taught and how it is taught in…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Secondary School Students
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Kolovou, Maria; Kim, Nam Ju – Journal of Educational Research, 2020
This paper introduces 'Integrative Drama-Inquiry Learning' (IDI), merging drama-based learning with inquiry-based learning in order to exemplify teaching science through drama. The study also reports on the findings of a sequential mixed-methods procedure embedded in a quasi-experimental research design aimed to understand the effects of IDI on…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Drama, Middle School Students, Student Motivation
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Schizas, Dimitrios; Papatheodorou, Efimia; Vezagkou, Traiani; Stamou, George – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
Science and environmental educators implicitly presuppose that the ecosystem per se is clearly defined and consider learners' misunderstandings to be incorrect scientific interpretations of uncontested knowledge content. The present study, however, explores how in-service secondary education Greek biology teachers address the topic of 'ecosystem…
Descriptors: Ecology, Biology, Science Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
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Koutalidi, Sophia; Scoullos, Michael – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2016
Biogeochemical cycles support all anthropogenic activities and are affected by them, therefore they are intricately interlinked with global environmental and socioeconomic issues. Elements of these cycles that are already included in the science/chemical curriculum and textbooks intended for formal education in Greek secondary schools were…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Secondary School Science, Biochemistry, Chemistry
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Vlachos, Athanasios; Zamfirov, Milen – Open Journal for Educational Research, 2017
In this paper educators provide a valuable feedback in the use of concept maps in secondary education. More specifically their use in teaching dyslexic students Science. Almost 100 educators replied to an online questionnaire after they studied a set of evaluation sheets provided to them based on concept maps. We will begin with a brief…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Dyslexia, Science Instruction, Teacher Attitudes
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Schizas, Dimitrios; Papatheodorou, Efimia; Stamou, George – Research in Science Education, 2018
This study conducts a textbook analysis in the frame of the following working hypothesis: The transformation of scientific knowledge into school knowledge is expected to reproduce the problems encountered with the scientific knowledge itself or generate additional problems, which may both induce misconceptions in textbook users. Specifically, we…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Textbook Evaluation, Textbooks, Textbook Content
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Zoupidis, Anastasios; Tselfes, Vasilis; Papadopoulou, Penelope; Kariotoglou, Petros – Education Sciences, 2022
In this paper, we investigate the intentions of kindergarten teachers to use the content and to apply the teaching methods that they acquired in a one-day teacher training seminar. According to the theory of planned behavior, the answer to this research question is directly related to a series of social-psychological personal criteria assessments,…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten, Intention, Teaching Methods
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Tzovla, Eirini; Kedraka, Katerina; Karalis, Thanassis; Kougiourouki, Marina; Lavidas, Konstantinos – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2021
Teachers' Professional Development Massive Open Online Courses (TPD-MOOCs) are a new form of MOOCs and have influenced an intense research interest. This study reports on the design and implementation of a TPD-MOOC which utilizes digital educational content and Open Educational Recourses (OER) and supports in-service elementary school teachers to…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Faculty Development, Online Courses, Program Development
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Stasinakis, Panagiotis K.; Athanasiou, Kyriacos – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2016
Evolution Teaching (ET) among in-service teachers in Greece was examined in an attempt to evaluate their Pedagogical Content Knowledge. Evolution teaching is a problematic issue. For this purpose, we constructed a questionnaire that was distributed to the target population and to which 181 teachers responded. We used quantitative method to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Biology, Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Paxinou, Evgenia; Panagiotakopoulos, Christos T.; Karatrantou, Anthi; Kalles, Dimitrios; Sgourou, Argyro – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2020
This study presents the integration of three different teaching scenarios, during biology laboratory lessons, with the overall aim of exploring the potential predominant effectiveness of teaching and improvement of students' learning, by the use of the three-dimensional virtual reality educational tool Onlabs, versus more traditional didactic…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Computer Simulation, Instructional Effectiveness
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Schizas, Dimitrios; Papatheodorou, Efimia; Stamou, George – International Journal of Science Education, 2019
The present study explores how in-service secondary education Greek biology teachers understand aspects of the concept of ecosystem under the assumption that the ecosystem is an ill-defined concept. If it is to be considered a holistic entity, the ecosystem acquires its definitional features within the ecological field of systems ecology, which…
Descriptors: Ecology, Biology, Science Teachers, Misconceptions
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Gariou-Papalexiou, Angeliki; Papadakis, Spyros; Manousou, Evangelia; Georgiadu, Irene – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2017
The purpose of this study was to investigate the application of the model of the "flipped classroom" as a complementary method to school distance education in junior high school Biology. The "flipped classroom" model attempts a different way of organizing the educational process according to which the traditional methods of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Biology, Science Instruction
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Kalathaki, Maria – Journal of Education and Learning, 2016
The research has been carried out in the material that Biologist teacher have prepared for the students and teachers, focusing mostly on the sub-query of teacher's self-assessment, since teacher had written a self-assessment, a reflection, upon differentiation points from an ordinary teaching, with a structured way. This paper searches on the…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Productivity
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