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Karlyn R. Adams-Wiggins; Cameron M. Haluska – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2025
In recent years, more science classrooms include inquiry-based approaches to learning in response to advances in education theory and science curriculum reform efforts. Yet, extant research indicates there are hurdles to fully actualizing those benefits: learners' regulation of cognitive, social, and motivational processes can be challenging. To…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Middle School Students, Early Adolescents, Science Education
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Matuk, Camillia; Linn, Marcia C. – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2023
Peer ideas can be valuable contributions to scientific inquiry. Divergent peer ideas can enrich students' thinking and encourage curiosity. Meanwhile, similar peer ideas can promote convergent thinking that can reinforce understanding. However, students need guidance in critically evaluating peer ideas in relation to their own, and in recognizing…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Peer Relationship, Active Learning, Inquiry
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Hasan Ozgur Kapici – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2025
Enhancing students' conceptual understanding and improving their inquiry skills and motivation for learning science are the goals of science instruction in learning environments. The current study investigated how different inquiry-based learning environments (regular classroom and computer-based environments) affect middle school students'…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 7, In Person Learning, Electronic Learning