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Direct linkChulkyu Park; Seonyeong Mun; Hun-Gi Hong – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
The purpose of this case study, informed by a Lakatosian perspective, is to identify how an alternative conception that originates in present learning but is related directly to subsequent learning contexts can be constructed. Before the study, one of the authors found by accident that a student who had learned about Avogadro's principle and…
Descriptors: High School Students, Knowledge Level, Scientific Concepts, Fuels
Richard Brock; Liam Cini O'Dwyer; Ben Rogers – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2025
Research reports that interesting but irrelevant information, seductive details, in teaching material can impede learning. In science education, the inclusion of historical narratives in lessons to promote interest has been recommended but may hinder learning. This study examines the impact of seductive details on UK high school students'…
Descriptors: Science Education, High School Students, Knowledge Level, Retention (Psychology)
Song, Ge; Wang, Zuhao – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2021
Science educators are placing increasing emphasis on the development of students' interdisciplinary competence. This study examined the degree to which disciplinary, cognitive and affective factors could explain students' (N = 385) individual differences in interdisciplinary competence. Multiple linear regression indicated that students'…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Interdisciplinary Approach, Competence, Science Education
Tim Hartelt; Helge Martens – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
Intuitive conceptions based on cognitive biases (teleology, anthropomorphism, and essentialism) often prove helpful in everyday life while simultaneously being problematic in scientific contexts. Nonetheless, students often have intuitive conceptions of scientific topics such as evolution. As potential approaches to enable students to…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Metacognition, Self Control, Intuition
Sage Andersen; María González-Howard; Karina Méndez Pérez – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
This study explored a middle school science teacher's curricular sensemaking in interaction with their use of an educative storyline curriculum, aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards, that was intentionally designed for more opportunities for students' scientific sensemaking. Using a phenomenological case study methodology, we examined…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Curriculum Implementation, Science Curriculum
Marcus Kubsch – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
Energy is a central concept across the sciences and an important goal of science education is to support all students so that they develop a full understanding of the energy concept. However, given the abstract and complex nature of the energy concept, only a few students develop an understanding so that they can use energy ideas to make sense of…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
Haskel-Ittah, Michal; Duncan, Ravit Golan; Vázquez-Ben, Lucia; Yarden, Anat – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2020
Mechanisms are central in scientific explanations. However, developing mechanistic explanations is difficult for students especially in domains in which mechanisms involve abstract components and functions, such as genetics. One of the core components of genetic mechanisms are proteins and their functions. Students struggle to reason about the…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 7, Secondary School Science, Genetics
Anwar, Saira; Menekse, Muhsin; Guzey, Selcen; Bryan, Lynn A. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2022
Recent calls for reform in K-12 science education and the National Academy of Engineering's Grand Challenges for Engineering in the 21st Century emphasize improving science teaching, students' engagement, and learning. In this study, we designed and implemented a curriculum unit for sixth-grade students (i = 1305). The curriculum unit integrated…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Grade 6, Interdisciplinary Approach, Science Education
Sezen-Barrie, Asli; Stapleton, Mary K.; Marbach-Ad, Gili – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2020
This study explores the process of teacher scaffolding student engagement in epistemic tools from the critical sensemaking perspective. Epistemic tools are contextual artifacts manipulated to investigate and evaluate ideas to construct knowledge within the constraints of a disciplines' representational means. The main sources of our data are ~50…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Learner Engagement
Boda, Phillip A.; Bathia, Shruti; Linn, Marcia C. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2021
Integrating sophisticated graphical analysis skills as they learn science is essential for K-12 students and emphasized in current standards. In this study, we iteratively designed a Graphing Integration Inventory (GII) over a three-year period, while also supporting students to develop their capabilities to use graphs to learn science content in…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Graphs, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction
Lederman, Judith; Lederman, Norman; Bartels, Selina; Jimenez, Juan; Akubo, Mark; Aly, Shereen; Bao, Chengcheng; Blanquet, Estelle; Blonder, Ron; Bologna Soares de Andrade, Mariana; Buntting, Catherine; Cakir, Mustafa; EL-Deghaidy, Heba; ElZorkani, Ahmed; Gaigher, Estelle; Guo, Shuchen; Hakanen, Arvi; Hamed Al-Lal, Soraya; Han-Tosunoglu, Cigdem; Hattingh, Annemarie; Hume, Anne; Irez, Serhat; Kay, Gillian; Kivilcan Dogan, Ozgur; Kremer, Kerstin; Kuo, Pi-Chu; Lavonen, Jari; Lin, Shu-Fen; Liu, Cheng; Liu, Enshan; Liu, Shiang-Yao; Lv, Bin; Mamlok-Naaman, Rachel; McDonald, Christine; Neumann, Irene; Pan, Yaozhen; Picholle, Eric; Rivero García, Ana; Rundgren, Carl-Johan; Santibáñez-Gómez, David; Saunders, Kathy; Schwartz, Renee; Voitle, Frauke; von Gyllenpalm, Jakob; Wei, Fangbing; Wishart, Jocelyn; Wu, Zhifeng; Xiao, Huang; Yalaki, Yalcin; Zhou, Qiaoxue – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2019
Although understandings of scientific inquiry (as opposed to conducting inquiry) are included in science education reform documents around the world, little is known about what students have learned about inquiry during their elementary school years. This is partially due to the lack of any assessment instrument to measure understandings about…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Middle School Students, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Großschedl, Jörg; Welter, Virginia; Harms, Ute – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2019
Teachers' pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) is highly important for effective design and implementation of school teaching. Thus, the current status, development and efficacy of this knowledge, its relationships with teaching quality parameters, and its impact on students' learning processes and success, require rigorous examination. Thoroughly…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Teachers, Biology, Preservice Teachers
Chao, Jie; Xie, Charles; Nourian, Saeid; Chen, Guanhua; Bailey, Siobhan; Goldstein, Molly H.; Purzer, Senay; Adams, Robin S.; Tutwiler, M. Shane – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2017
Many pedagogical innovations aim to integrate engineering design and science learning. However, students frequently show little attempt or have difficulties in connecting their design projects with the underlying science. Drawing upon the Cultural-Historical Activity Theory, we argue that the design tools available in a learning environment…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Engineering Education, Integrated Activities, Design
Friedrichsen, Patricia J.; Barnett, Ellen – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2018
This instrumental case study examines how secondary biology teachers in a professional learning community (PLC) negotiated the meaning of the "Next Generation Science Standards" ("NGSS") in a year-long process of redesigning their curriculum. The PLC consisted of six biology teachers, five females and one male, who co-planned…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Science Teachers, Biology, Communities of Practice
Tiberghien, Andrée; Cross, David; Sensevy, Gérard – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2014
This paper deals with the joint construction of knowledge by the teacher and the students in a physics classroom. It is focused on the status of epistemic certainty/uncertainty of knowledge. The same element of knowledge can be introduced as possible and thus uncertain and then evolve towards a status of epistemic certainty; the status of other…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Physics, Science Instruction, Epistemology
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