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Universal Design for Learning: The More, the Better?
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Roski, Marvin; Walkowiak, Malte; Nehring, Andreas – Education Sciences, 2021
An experimental study investigated the effects of applying principles of the Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Focusing on epistemic beliefs (EBs) in inclusive science classes, we compared four groups who worked with learning environments based more or less on UDL principles and filled out an original version of a widely used EBs questionnaire…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Epistemology, Beliefs, Inclusion
Scaling up an Extracurricular Science Intervention for Elementary School Students: It Works, and Girls Benefit More from It than Boys
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Schiefer, Julia; Stark, Lucas; Gaspard, Hanna; Wille, Eike; Trautwein, Ulrich; Golle, Jessika – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
The promotion of an adequate understanding of science is a central goal of science education, even in elementary school. In this study, we analyzed the effects of a recently developed science intervention program aimed at fostering the understanding of science as well as the motivation of elementary school--aged boys and girls. In prior research,…
Descriptors: Science Activities, Extracurricular Activities, Science Education, Elementary School Students
Philosophy of Science and Education
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Jung, Walter – Science & Education, 2012
This is a vast and vague topic. In order to do justice to it one has to write a book or maybe more than one. For it can be understood in quite different ways and on different levels. For example you may think mainly of the historical aspect, that is how philosophy of science developed in the last hundred or so years and how its influence on…
Descriptors: Scientific Methodology, Physics, Foreign Countries, Science Teachers
Ernst Mach and the Epistemological Ideas Specific for Finnish Science Education
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Siemsen, Hayo – Science & Education, 2011
Where does Finnish science education come from? Where will it go? The following outside view reflects on relations, which Finns consider "normal" (and thus unrecognizable in introspection) in science education. But what is "normal" in Finnish culture cannot be considered "normal" for science education in other…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Epistemology, Science Education, Comparative Analysis
Studies on Educational Reconstruction of Chaos Theory.
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Duit, Reinders; Komorek, Michael; Wilbers, Jens – Research in Science Education, 1997
Critically analyzes the core ideas of chaos theory to determine whether they are worth teaching and explores the accessibility of these ideas for students. The studies are embedded in a Model of Educational Reconstruction which seeks to bring science content structure concerns and educational concerns into balance and interaction with one another.…
Descriptors: Chaos Theory, Constructivism (Learning), Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation
55th Yearbook of the National Reading Conference (Miami, Florida, November 30-December 3, 2005)
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Hoffman, James V., Ed.; Schallert, Diane L., Ed.; Fairbanks, Colleen M., Ed.; Worthy, Jo, Ed.; Maloch, Beth, Ed. – National Reading Conference, 2006
Close to 1,100 people attended the 55th Annual Meeting of the National Reading Conference at the Intercontinental Hotel in Miami, Florida from November 30-December 3, 2005. A record number of proposals were submitted this year (548), with 392 papers, symposia, and round tables accepted. This year's conference theme was inclusiveness and synthesis…
Descriptors: Research Design, Research Methodology, Reading Research, Synthesis