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Ng, Betsy Ling-Ling – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2012
Learning of science has been traditionally conducted in classrooms or in the form of lectures. Science education is usually context-specific learning as students are taught a particular module of content in class. In problem-based learning, they are provided with examples of problems in which they learn how to solve these types of problems.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Learning Strategies, Service Learning
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Rundgren, Carl-Johan; Hirsch, Richard; Tibell, Lena A. E. – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2009
The study reported in this article investigated the use of metaphors by upper secondary and tertiary students while learning a specific content area in molecular life science, protein function. Terms and expressions in science can be used in such precise and general senses that they are totally dissociated from their metaphoric origins. Beginners…
Descriptors: Molecular Biology, Biological Sciences, Secondary School Students, Postsecondary Education