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Student Appropriation of Thinking Strategies in a Constructivist Classroom
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Hall, Beatrice A. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This mixed method study examined the oral contributions and personal journal writing of 8 focal students in an eleventh-grade integrated history/English classroom to ascertain whether and to what extent the students had appropriated three types of cognitive strategies desired and modeled by their teachers. Quantitative and qualitative analyses of…
Descriptors: Journal Writing, Classroom Communication, Teaching Methods, Constructivism (Learning)
Active-Learning versus Teacher-Centered Instruction for Learning Acids and Bases
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Sesen, Burcin Acar; Tarhan, Leman – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2011
Background and purpose: Active-learning as a student-centered learning process has begun to take more interest in constructing scientific knowledge. For this reason, this study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of active-learning implementation on high-school students' understanding of "acids and bases". Sample: The sample of this…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries
Investigation of Conceptual Change about Double-Slit Interference in Secondary School Physics
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Kocakulah, Mustafa Sabri; Kural, Mehmet – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2010
In this study, whether or not constructivist teaching of double-slit interference of light has a positive effect on the secondary school students' conceptual change is examined. An achievement test, a conceptual understanding test and semi-structured interviews were used as data collection tools in this mixed methods research. Experimental group…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Physics
Understanding Acid-Base Concepts: Evaluating the Efficacy of a Senior High School Student-Centred Instructional Program in Indonesia
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Rahayu, Sri; Chandrasegaran, A. L.; Treagust, David F.; Kita, Masakazu; Ibnu, Suhadi – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2011
This study was a mixed quantitative-qualitative research to evaluate the efficacy of a designed student-centred instructional (DSCI) program for teaching about acids and bases. The teaching innovation was designed based on constructivist, hands-on inquiry and context-based approaches and implemented in seven 45-min lessons with a class of 36 grade…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Experimental Groups, High Schools, Qualitative Research
Effect of Cooperative Learning Strategies on Students' Understanding of Concepts in Electrochemistry
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Acar, Burcin; Tarhan, Leman – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2007
The present study was conducted to investigate the degree of effectiveness of cooperative learning instruction over a traditional approach on 11th grade students' understanding of electrochemistry. The study involved forty-one 11th grade students from two science classes with the same teacher. To determine students' misconceptions concerning…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Chemistry, Learning Strategies, Cooperative Learning
The Efficacy of Online MBL Activities
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Slykhuis, David; Park, John C. – Journal of Interactive Online Learning, 2006
The focus of this study was twofold: one, to determine if students could increase their physics content knowledge through the completion of an online hands-on Microcomputer-Based Laboratory (MBL) unit on motion; and two to determine if the demonstrated learning gains were equivalent to those of students who completed the same MBL activities in a…
Descriptors: Motion, Physics, High School Students, Comparative Analysis