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Stefanie Ryan – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study advances the understanding of providing effective professional development for elementary teachers in the field as the Pennsylvania STEELS standards require inquiry-based learning as a component of the science classroom. I sought out elementary teacher perceptions surrounding professional development as it pertained to their ability to…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Elementary School Teachers, Program Implementation, Science Instruction
Cathy Ellen Mehl – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Over the past several decades, science education reform has emphasized moving from content driven courses to more interactive, inquiry-based methodologies. This change has been supported by research by Chi (2009) and represented as three-dimensional learning in the Next Generation Science Standards (NRC, 2013). The typical structure of many high…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Chemistry, Science Instruction, High School Students
Jill Mary Mayorga – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study was an action research self-study that examined my role as a teacher educator supporting a resident teacher in learning how to design inquiry-based culturally responsive science lessons. I explored my own growth in understanding how to act as a teacher educator to provide appropriately scaffolded support to promote learning for a…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Science Education, Science Instruction, Lesson Plans
Martha Higginbotham – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this descriptive case study was to examine the impact of the Question Formulation Technique (QFT) on student engagement in the CHEM 100 course at Rider University. The action research study was conducted during the fall semester of 2022 with seven participants. The QFT protocol was taught separately from classroom instruction.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Questioning Techniques, Learner Engagement, Chemistry
Kate Ireton Walker – ProQuest LLC, 2024
When instructing very large groups of students in science, it can be difficult to engage all students in the content and measure their understanding. A major unaddressed challenge in science instruction is how specifically to design and implement strategies that engender active learning particularly in high-enrollment undergraduate courses. Active…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Active Learning, Undergraduate Study, Large Group Instruction
Alistair Gilbert McInerny – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Understanding human behavior and reasoning is essential for developing successful instruction. Discipline-based education researchers have examined how students learn, informing the development of successful instructional strategies. Researchers have also identified barriers to the successful implementation of such strategies. This work utilizes…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Logical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Physics
James DiFranco – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The recent Next Generation Science Standards recommend students have increased opportunities engaging in modeling work scientists do. Science classroom tasks include simple inquiry compared to more complex authentic inquiry that closely resembles authentic science. Science fair participation presents students with the opportunity to engage in…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Authentic Learning, Inquiry
Tiana Woolard – ProQuest LLC, 2022
With billions of dollars spent on professional development, there remains a very real disconnect between what teachers are given and what they receive especially in terms of the follow-up of an extended PD program. Several theories attempt to explain the differences that exist within the teacher population, but few professional development…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Faculty Development, Middle School Teachers, Active Learning
Linda R. Pesciotta – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Although many undergraduates begin college as STEM majors, attrition rates from the field are high and numerous reports suggest that evidence-based teaching methods are critical for retention. Despite educators' research and near consensus that active learning is more effective than lecture, there are many types of active learning and the…
Descriptors: College Science, Undergraduate Students, Science Education, Biology
Christian Smoke – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Project-based learning (PjBL) instruction is an inquiry-based method that is beneficial to student achievement and their exploration of 21st-century learning skills, but there is a gap in the literature about how Grades 6 to 8 teachers feel about PjBL and its implementation. The research problem was science teachers in the United States were not…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
Cassandra Franks LaFaye – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The problem addressed in this study was that some high school students do not have the math skills needed to succeed in a traditional chemistry class. If instructional strategies are not changed, many students who struggle with algebra will also struggle to master the chemistry content which is a required high school subject in Arizona. The…
Descriptors: High School Students, Mathematics Skills, Achievement Gap, Chemistry
Safaa Youssef El-Mansy – ProQuest LLC, 2023
As educators, our goal is to help our students be successful, but in order to accomplish this, we need to understand what factors contribute to student success. One factor, small-group active learning, has been correlated to improved academic outcomes; however, the magnitude of this improvement can vary across different courses, different types of…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Worksheets, Discourse Analysis
Kevin Cherbow – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Recent K-12 science reforms necessitate a shift in curriculum and instruction to support coherence from the students' perspective. This coherence emerges when students see their science work as addressing and making progress on their questions and problems. Storyline curricular units afford student coherence, but teachers need support to craft…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Implementation, Student Attitudes, Alignment (Education)
Cara E. Schwarz – ProQuest LLC, 2024
My thesis work is focused on conceptual and epistemic learning and characterizing the environments in which this learning takes place. Earlier studies conducted by the Stowe group explored how instructional practices, instructional emphasis, and assessment emphasis relate to student outcomes in general and organic chemistry courses. Student…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Organic Chemistry, Epistemology
Sydney Sauls – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Georgia adopted science standards encouraging teachers to use inquiry-based instruction in science instruction in 2016 to improve science exam scores. The problem was a lack of improvement in science exam scores in middle school and high school students in a small rural school district in South Georgia since inquiry-based standards have been put…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Science Teachers, High School Teachers, Active Learning