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Tsai, Chin-Chung – Science Education, 1999
Describes a study that explored the interplay between students' scientific epistemological views (SEVs) and their learning in school laboratory activities. Finds that students having SEVs oriented to constructivist views of science tend to focus more on negotiating the meanings of experiments with their peers than students with SEVs more in line…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Discourse Analysis, Epistemology, Foreign Countries
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Tao, Ping-Kee; Gunstone, Richard F. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1999
Investigates the conceptual-change process in grade 10 students during a computer-supported physics unit. Finds that many students vacillated between alternative and scientific conceptions from one context to another during instruction, and those few students who did exhibit context-independent and stable conceptual change appeared able to accept…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Uses in Education, Concept Formation, Epistemology
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Hughes, Gwyneth – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2000
Demonstrates how socioscientific material is marginalized through the structures and language of syllabus texts and through classroom practices using the example of Salters' Advanced Chemistry from the United Kingdom. Concludes that socioscientific content is gendered through association with social concerns and epistemological uncertainty, and…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Epistemology, Foreign Countries
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Ninnes, Peter – International Journal of Science Education, 2000
Employs discourse analysis techniques to examine the approach taken in addressing minority group knowledges in two recently-published sets of junior secondary science texts, with a specific focus on the incorporation of indigenous knowledge into the texts. (Contains 44 references.) (Author/WRM)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Epistemology, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations
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Lenschow, Rolf Johan – European Journal of Engineering Education, 1998
Reports on initiatives taken to promote project-based learning by information and communication technology in both pilot and large scale projects. Reviews the history of paradigm shifts with regard to technological advances. (DDR)
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Engineering Education, Epistemology, Foreign Countries
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Roth, Wolff-Michael; Lee, Stuart – Research in Science Education, 2000
Describes science educators trying to effect systemic change as actors in a cultural field struggling to change it. Uses a conversational hermeneutic analysis of autobiographical writings to examine some of the salient features of bringing about change in science education. (Contains 35 references.) (Author/WRM)
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Educational Change, Epistemology, Graduate Students
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Hand, Brian; Prain, Vaughan; Lawrence, Chris; Yore, Larry D. – International Journal of Science Education, 1999
Attempts to clarify the critical, philosophical, epistemological, and pedagogical dimensions and underlying assumptions and relationships of a contemporary view of scientific literacy. Presents a practical framework for using writing in science to enhance scientific literacy and provides illustrative classroom examples. Contains 31 references.…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Educational Change, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education
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Ke, Jiun-Liang; Monk, Martin; Duschl, Richard – International Journal of Science Education, 2005
This paper reports a cross-sectional study of Taiwanese physics students' understanding of subatomic phenomena that are explained by quantum mechanics. The study uses students' explanations of their answers to items in a questionnaire as a proxy for students' thinking. The variation in students' explanations is discussed as is the development in…
Descriptors: Quantum Mechanics, Physics, Science Instruction, Introductory Courses
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Clegg, Sue – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2005
The paper argues that a critical realist perspective can contribute to a critique of evidence-based practice, while at the same time not abandoning the idea of evidence altogether. The paper is structured around a number of related themes: the sociopolitics of "evidence-based"; epistemological roots and a critical realist critique; the debate in…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Educational Research, Epistemology, Teaching Methods
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Hodges, Charles B. – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2005
The purpose of this article is to investigate the construct of academic self-regulation in Web-based learning environments. Self-regulation will be discussed in general using social cognitive theory as the framework of the discussion. The article concludes with a brief review of the limited amount of research on self-regulation in Web-based…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, Internet, Epistemology, Educational Environment
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Bodemer, Daniel; Ploetzner, Rolf; Feuerlein, Inge; Spada, Hans – Learning and Instruction, 2004
Computer-based learning environments commonly comprise symbolic as well as static and dynamic pictorial representations, frequently combined with the possibility of modifying them interactively. While multiple, dynamic and interactive external representations have the potential to improve learning in various ways, they also place specific demands…
Descriptors: Visualization, Pictorial Stimuli, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Environment
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Gobert, Janice D.; Pallant, Amy – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2004
A curriculum unit for middle school Earth Science called "What's on Your Plate?" was designed. The unit was implemented in several middle and high school classrooms in California and Massachusetts. In the first implementation, the total number of students who participated was 1100. The unit was designed with two main pedagogical…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Epistemology, Models, Earth Science
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Callow, Jon – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2005
The inclusion of visual images in current educational literacy discussions tends to contextualise them within more semiotic, socio-critical and textually focussed theoretical traditions. These particular traditions privilege and emphasise the structures and "language-like" aspects of visual images, and include the broader social and…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Visual Aids, Visual Literacy, Nonverbal Communication
Martin, Renee J. – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2005
In this article, the author offers insights about how teacher educators might best educate future teachers to comprehend the relationship of social class to power and success in American institutions, especially schools. She chronicles her efforts to educate prospective teachers to better understand how their perceptions of social class have the…
Descriptors: Assignments, Social Class, Education Courses, Multicultural Education
Peer, Jarina; Atputhasamy, Lourdusamy – Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast Asia, 2005
The science epistemological beliefs of students have been found to play an important role in determining their learning orientations towards science. Conley, Pintrich, Vekiri, & Harrison (2004) developed a measure to examine the epistemology beliefs of students about science. The measure encompasses four dimensions about scientific knowledge:…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries, Epistemology, Beliefs
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