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Cranwell, Philippa B.; Whiteside, Karin L. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2020
Language in chemistry is highly specialized, and for students, transitions in language complexity from high school to university can be extremely challenging. With an increasingly diverse cohort of students enrolled in UK chemistry degree programs, better understanding the linguistic challenges students face is becoming a greater pedagogical…
Descriptors: Semantics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Language Role
Hudson-Smith, Natalie Vaughan – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Due to the unique and advantageous physiochemical properties of nanoparticles, they have been increasingly incorporated into consumer products and emerging technologies. The manufacture, wear and tear of use, and disposal of these nano-enabled products will likely result in the release of nanoparticles into the environment. Unfortunately,…
Descriptors: Technological Advancement, Hazardous Materials, Manufacturing, Standards
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Van Dusen, Ben; Nissen, Jayson – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2020
We investigated the intersectional nature of race/racism and gender/sexism in broad scale inequities in physics student learning using a critical quantitative intersectionality. To provide transparency and create a nuanced picture of learning, we problematized the measurement of equity by using two competing operationalizations of equity:…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Racial Bias, Gender Bias
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Acar, Ömer – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2020
Science achievement gap between fifth, sixth, and eighth grades and boys and girls in low and high performing schools were under investigation in the present study. In accordance with this purpose, three schools were selected to represent high performing schools and two schools were selected to represent low achieving schools for their performance…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Program Divisions, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students
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De Luca, Roberto; Di Mauro, Marco; Naddeo, Adele; Onorato, Pasquale; Rosi, Tommaso – Physics Education, 2020
The difficulties students have in blending mathematics and physics are here analyzed, by focusing on the issue of a convergent series. We present an experimental and a theoretical analysis of some phenomena which can be investigated employing series, as the bouncing marble and Zeno's paradox of Achilles and the turtle. Measurements were carried…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Mathematics Instruction, Metacognition
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Sahingoz, Selcuk; Cobern, William W. – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2020
The main purpose of the study is to gain insight on to what extent taking a science methods course correlated with the science teaching pedagogical preferences of pre-service science teachers. The study recruited twenty K-8 teacher education students enrolled in lower division science courses at a large American public university, some of whom had…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness
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Bongers, Amanda; Beauvoir, Berthorie; Streja, Nicholas; Northof, Georg; Flynn, Alison B. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2020
In chemistry, novices and experts use mental models to simulate and reason about sub-microscopic processes. Animations are thus important tools for learning in chemistry to convey reaction dynamics and molecular motion. While there are many animations available and studies showing the benefit of learning from animations, there are also limitations…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Schemata (Cognition), Scientific Concepts, Animation
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Guasch, Blanca; González, Marta; Cortiñas, Sergi – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2020
Nanoscience and nanotechnology are two key areas in the development of new technologies. However, scientific advances in these fields are still far removed from the contents taught in schools. But what if basic concepts within these areas were introduced in secondary schools? We believe science is an essential facet of culture and the most recent…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Early Adolescents, Design, Knowledge Level
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Sabel, Jaime L. – American Biology Teacher, 2020
Students need support to learn the core ideas, practices, and crosscutting concepts that make up the field of biology so that they can both be successful as biologists and make informed decisions that require biological understanding. One way instructors can support students in these endeavors is to provide students with specific scaffolds the…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Biology, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts
Rimm-Kaufman, Sara E.; Merritt, Eileen G.; Lapan, Candace; DeCoster, Jamie; Hunt, Ashley; Bowers, Nicole – Grantee Submission, 2020
This randomized controlled trial examined the efficacy of an elementary school service-learning program, Connect Science (CS), on classroom practices and students' science achievement, civic engagement, and social skills. Fourth grade teachers were enrolled into intervention versus control conditions resulting in 41 classrooms (20 intervention)…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Elementary School Students, Program Effectiveness, Science Achievement
Gross, Katharina; Harmer, Sandra Pia – Online Submission, 2020
In the course of PISA and TIMSS a lot of out-of-school lab days have been established; as non-formal extracurricular learning environments they shall provide an efficient addition to formal learning at school. The "ELKE" project is a non-formal extracurricular learning lab that aims at linking curricular content and competence-centred…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Extracurricular Activities, Chemistry, Science Teachers
Tra Huynh – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This research presents the investigation of physics students' and physics faculty members' professional development and a design methodology via which we could best support them in their professional development. In particular, the first part of this dissertation will focus on undergraduate upper-division physics students' conceptual learning and…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Physics, Professional Development, Science Instruction
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M. David Burghardt; Deborah Hecht – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2020
This paper examines the differences and challenges encountered when trying to create informal blended (virtual and hands-on) engineering design STEM activities. It contrasts the creation of STEM activities for formal and informal learning environments, stressing that the differences extend far beyond the length of the activity or depth of any…
Descriptors: Informal Education, STEM Education, Science Activities, Youth Clubs
Jessica Whittaker; Mable B. Kinzie; Virginia Vitiello; Jamie DeCoster; Christina Mulcahy; Emily A. Barton – Grantee Submission, 2020
This randomized controlled trial examined effects of the MyTeachingPartner-Math/Science intervention on the quality and quantity of teachers' mathematics and science instruction, and children's mathematics and science outcomes in 140 pre-kindergarten classrooms. Teachers participated in the intervention for two years with consecutive cohorts of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Mathematics Instruction, Science Instruction, Preschool Children
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Osborne, Jonathan – School Science Review, 2015
This article argues that the role of practical work in science is overemphasised and misunderstood. Science is distinguished by the fact that it is a set of ideas about the material world and not by empirical enquiry. The latter is only one of six styles of reasoning that have been used to develop scientific ideas. The lack of clarity around the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Education, Science Laboratories, Science Activities
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