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Jeanna de Haan-Topolscak; Merle Ebskamp; Pauline Vos-de Tombe – Design and Technology Education, 2024
This pilot study investigates the way that young students and teachers of a Dutch Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) secondary school subject Research and Design (R&D) reason about the concept of 'model'. The core of the Dutch Technasium secondary school course Research and Design curriculum (R&D is in Dutch called…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers, STEM Education
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Heeg, Dagmar M.; Smith, Theila; Avraamidou, Lucy – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2022
The goal of this case study was to examine how a group of young children in a historically marginalized neighborhood in the northern part of the Netherlands perceived their engagement in an out-of-school, STEM community-based program aiming to enhance young children's interest and self-identification with science. We collected data through…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, STEM Education, Community Programs, Identification (Psychology)
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van der Graaf, Joep; van de Sande, Eva; Gijsel, Martine; Segers, Eliane – International Journal of Science Education, 2019
Inquiry-based lessons have been demonstrated to improve children's scientific thinking (i.e. reasoning abilities and domain-specific knowledge). Although empirical evidence shows that inquiry-based learning requires instruction, research comes from two approaches that have not been bridged yet: direct instruction of scientific reasoning and…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Direct Instruction, Active Learning, Inquiry