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Baytelman, Andreani; Loizou, Theonitsa; Hadjiconstantinou, Salomi – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2023
This study researches relationships between 12th-grade students' epistemological beliefs towards science and their conceptual understanding of evolution by natural selection. Forty-two 12th-grade students in a suburban high school in Cyprus, who participated in a biology course, completed measures of their: (1) epistemological beliefs towards…
Descriptors: Grade 12, High School Seniors, Beliefs, Scientific Concepts
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Stadermann, H. K. E.; Goedhart, M. J. – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
Epistemological and philosophical issues have always been relevant for the foundations of physics, but usually do not find their way into secondary physics classrooms. As an exception to this, the strangeness of quantum physics (QP) naturally evokes philosophical questions, and learners might have to change their ideas about the nature of science…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Scientific Principles, Quantum Mechanics
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Ernesto Manlapig Jr.; Eunice Bernadette Acuña; Aivielle Mae Manuel – Anatolian Journal of Education, 2024
Strategic Intervention Material (SIM) is an instructional learner material developed to enhance the academic performance of low-performing students. This study aimed to develop e-SIM and investigate its effect on the student's academic performance and learning motivation in Newton's Laws of Motion. The participants were 40 students from Grade 12…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Intervention, Educational Strategies