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Direct linkSonghee Han; Min Liu; Ying Cai; Peixia Shao – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2025
The effectiveness of science problem-based learning (PBL) is highly dependent on individual students' variability. Researchers have shown the need for cognition (NFC) and motivation are significant factors. Despite the acknowledged impact of these constructs, there is a gap in understanding the relationships among NFC, motivation, and learning…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Science Instruction, Middle School Students, Student Motivation
Bae, Haesol; Glazewski, Krista; Brush, Thomas; Kwon, Kyungbin – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2021
Scaffolding is one of the critical features in a problem-based learning environment to address challenges associated with problem solving. While transfer of responsibility is considered as an ultimate goal in scaffolding that is adaptive and contingent, it is rarely studied and practiced. Thus, the purpose of this study was to inform a deeper…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Problem Based Learning, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Problem Solving
Tripto, Jaklin; Assaraf, Orit Ben; Snapir, Zohar; Amit, Miriam – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2017
This study follows two groups of students (67 in all) through the 3 years of their high school biology education and examines the development of their systems thinking--specifically their models of the human body as a system. Both groups were composed of biology majors, but the students in one group also participated in a PBLbased extension…
Descriptors: Human Body, High School Students, Biology, Models
Yeo, Jennifer; Tan, Seng Chee – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2014
The introduction of problem-based learning into K-12 science classrooms faces the challenge of achieving the dual goal of learning science content and developing problem-solving skills. To overcome this content-process tension in science classrooms, we employed the knowledge-creation approach as a boundary object between the two seemingly…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods, High School Students
Lam, Shui-fong; Cheng, Rebecca Wing-yi; Ma, William Y. K. – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2009
In this study we examined the relationship between teacher and student intrinsic motivation in project-based learning. The participants were 126 Hong Kong secondary school teachers and their 631 students who completed evaluation questionnaires after a semester-long project-based learning program. Both teachers and students were asked to indicate…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Student Motivation, Active Learning, Foreign Countries
Kaberman, Zvia; Dori, Yehudit Judy – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2009
Posing questions about an article might improve one's knowledge--a cognitive function, or monitor one's thought processes--a metacognitive function. This study focuses on guided question posing while using a metacognitive strategy by 12th grade honors chemistry students. We investigated the ways by which the metacognitive strategy affected…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Difficulty Level, Chemistry, Laboratories
