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Direct linkHee-Sun Lee; Gey-Hong Gweon; Aubree Webb; Dan Damelin; Chad Dorsey – Science Education, 2024
This study addresses the measurement of high school students' epistemic knowledge associated with scientific experimentation (EKSE) which concerns "how" scientific experimentation generates knowledge and "why" that knowledge is justified. Based on philosophical, educational standards, and literature analyses, an EKSE construct…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Science Experiments, High School Students, Thinking Skills
Rohr, James; Wang, Si-Yin; Nesterenko, Vitali F. – Physics Teacher, 2018
Our motivation for this article is for students to realize that opportunities for discovery are all around them. Discoveries that can still puzzle present day researchers. Here we explore an observation by a middle school student concerning the production of what appears to be water-like "ripples" produced in aluminum foil when placed…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Observation, Middle School Students
Keisha Varma – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2017
Increasingly, research on cognition, learning, and education seeks to understand the cognitive processes underlying conceptual understanding. This is especially true for efforts to understand how students learn science. The present case summarizes work that examines 6- to 10-year-old students engage in scientific reasoning to learn new scientific…
Descriptors: Science Process Skills, Thinking Skills, Elementary School Students, Abstract Reasoning
van der Graaf, Joep; Segers, Eliane; Verhoeven, Ludo – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2015
A dynamic assessment tool was developed and validated using Mokken scale analysis to assess the extent to which kindergartners are able to construct unconfounded experiments, an essential part of scientific reasoning. Scientific reasoning is one of the learning processes happening within science education. A commonly used, hands-on,…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Science Process Skills, Abstract Reasoning, Thinking Skills
Evagorou, Maria; Erduran, Sibel; Mäntylä, Terhi – International Journal of STEM Education, 2015
Background: The use of visual representations (i.e., photographs, diagrams, models) has been part of science, and their use makes it possible for scientists to interact with and represent complex phenomena, not observable in other ways. Despite a wealth of research in science education on visual representations, the emphasis of such research has…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Genetics, Epistemology, Visual Aids
