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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
