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Download full textLütfiye Varoglu; Ayhan Yilmaz; Senol Sen – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2024
The examination of students' motivation towards lessons is an important aspect of educational studies. The constructivist approach significantly impacts the improvement of students' motivation. The present study aims to examine the use of the 5E learning model with concept maps to support students' motivation and compare the 5E approach and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Science, Chemistry
Direct linkPapadouris, Nicos; Constantinou, Costas P. – International Journal of Science Education, 2014
We describe the implementation of a specially designed teaching innovation, embedded in the context of energy, for the promotion of specific aspects of the nature of science (NOS). We present empirical results from the implementation of the teaching and learning materials in three intact sixth-grade classes that involved a total of 64 students. We…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Energy, Scientific Concepts, Grade 6
Kendeou, Panayiota; Braasch, Jason L. G.; Bråten, Ivar – Journal of Experimental Education, 2016
A refutation text is designed to promote conceptual change by explicitly acknowledging commonly held misconceptions about a topic, directly refuting them, and providing an accurate explanation. In this study, we determined the impact of different types of refutation texts on adolescent readers' conceptual change learning in science. Specifically,…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Concept Formation, Change, Learning
Giallousi, Maria; Gialamas, Vassilios; Spyrellis, Nicolas; Pavlatou, Evangelia A. – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2010
This study describes the development and validation of a Greek-language instrument that can be used to assess grade 10 students' perceptions of their chemistry classroom environment as a means of showing differences between chemistry learning environments in Greece (Attica) and Cyprus. The development of the instrument was based on available…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chemistry, Urban Areas, Effect Size
Koliopoulos, Dimitris; Constantinou, Costas – Science & Education, 2005
When we refer to scientific knowledge, we, implicitly or explicitly, refer to its three components, namely its conceptual framework, its methodological principles and its cultural aspects. The pendulum is a topic of science teaching and learning where all three of these aspects can be examined with the aim of gaining a holistic appreciation of the…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Textbooks, Physical Sciences, Foreign Countries
Valanides, Nicos; Nicolaidou, Athanasia; Eilks, Ingo – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2003
Nine 12th grade students, attending the science section of the upper secondary school in Cyprus, were individually interviewed about their understanding of the changes associated with the process of oxidation/combustion. Each student was instructed to firstly predict what would happen when heating a piece of copper wire or a piece of magnesium…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Grade 12
