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Direct linkElaine Kit Ling Yeung; Miao Zhong; Jing Huang; Man Ho Chan; Carrey Tik Sze Siu; Him Cheung – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2025
This study compares direct instruction to two constructivist approaches, namely experimentation and problem-based learning, in fifth-grade science learning in Hong Kong. Constructivist instructional approaches, contrary to direct instruction, stress on students' active role in constructing knowledge in learning. Experimentation and problem-based…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Science Instruction, Outcomes of Education, Problem Based Learning
Swirski, Hani; Baram-Tsabari, Ayelet – Interdisciplinary Journal of e-Skills and Lifelong Learning, 2015
Can questions sent to Open-Educational-Resource (OER) websites such as Ask-An-Expert serve as indicators for students' interest in science? This issue was examined using an online questionnaire which included an equal number of questions about the topics "space" and "nutrition" randomly selected from three different sources: a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Student Interests
Girod, Mark; Twyman, Todd; Wojcikiewicz, Steve – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2010
Drawing from the Deweyan theory of experience (1934, 1938), the goal of teaching and learning for transformative, aesthetic experience is contrasted against teaching and learning from a cognitive, rational framework. A quasi-experimental design was used to investigate teaching and learning of fifth grade science from each perspective across an…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Investigations, Grade 5, Aesthetics
