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Akuma, Fru Vitalis; Gaigher, Estelle – South African Journal of Education, 2023
The inquiry-based strategy in science education is widely recommended and incorporated in practical work. However, contextual and intrinsic teaching challenges associated with practical investigations (inquiry-based practical work), occur in resource-constrained physical sciences classrooms in South Africa. The intrinsic challenges have previously…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Inquiry, Active Learning, Foreign Countries
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Sizer, Ashlie; Tharp, Heather; Wrigley, Jennifer; Al-Bataineh, Adel; Park, Do-Yong – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2021
The purpose of the study is to investigate how pre-service elementary teachers' orientation about science inquiry impacts their implementation of inquiry-based instruction. Teaching orientation is one of the levels of pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) which impacts on teachers' instructional practice. With thirty-one pre-service teachers, data…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Active Learning, Inquiry
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)
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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
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Paz, Giovanni Scataglia Botelho; Locatelli, Solange Wagner – International Baltic Symposium on Science and Technology Education, 2023
Science education objectives in Brazil have evolved over time. Initially, the focus was on creating scientifically literate citizens who could relate scientific concepts to their daily lives. In 2017, the São Paulo City Curriculum for Natural Sciences was introduced to teach students scientific literacy through inquiry-based teaching methods. This…
Descriptors: Natural Sciences, Science Instruction, Foreign Countries, Science Curriculum
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Karen E. Singer-Freeman; Kristi Verbeke – Intersection: A Journal at the Intersection of Assessment and Learning, 2024
We share a case study on our use of three reflective questions to demonstrate ways in which simple questions can be coded to reveal rich evidence of impact and engagement. At the end of a three-hour inclusive teaching practices workshop for 23 faculty and administrators from a single science department, 22 participants completed an anonymous…
Descriptors: Administrators, College Faculty, Science Departments, Teacher Workshops
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Navy, Shannon L.; Maeng, Jennifer L.; Bell, Randy L.; Kaya, Fatma – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
The beginning years of a teacher's career are among the most challenging and complex. Content-specific induction programmes can help teachers navigate these early years of teaching and build their instructional practices. Although there is growing interest in studying new teachers' reform-based instruction, little is known about new science…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Beginning Teacher Induction, Secondary School Teachers, Science Teachers
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Nainggolan, Bajoka; Hutabarat, Wesly; Situmorang, Manihar; Sitorus, Marham – International Journal of Instruction, 2020
The research was carried out through research and development to produce an innovative chemistry laboratory workbook (InoChemLaW) followed by the implementation of the learning package in the teaching of chemistry. The result showed that a standard InoChemLaW has successfully been developed on the topic of Colligative Properties of solutions. The…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Innovation, Chemistry, Laboratory Manuals
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Mohammed, Salifu Maigari – World Journal of Education, 2022
Inquiry-based science teaching is an innovative pedagogy that is more effective than traditional instruction in promoting scientific literacy. However, teachers must develop strong favourable beliefs about inquiry teaching before they can successfully employ it to improve students' learning outcomes. Despite its importance few studies have been…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, Science Instruction, Science Teachers
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Furman, Melina; Luzuriaga, Mariana; Taylor, Inés; Jarvis, Diana; Dominguez Prost, Enzo; Podestá, María Eugenia – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2019
The use of effective questions is an essential attribute of successful early years science teaching. In this case study, we analyse the questions and dialogues generated by four preschool teachers from two schools in Buenos Aires, Argentina, of contrasting socioeconomic contexts (one privileged and one underprivileged). We looked at the…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Foreign Countries, Preschools, Preschool Teachers
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Fitzgerald, Michael; Danaia, Lena; McKinnon, David H. – Research in Science Education, 2019
In recent years, calls for the adoption of inquiry-based pedagogies in the science classroom have formed a part of the recommendations for large-scale high school science reforms. However, these pedagogies have been problematic to implement at scale. This research explores the perceptions of 34 positively inclined early-adopter teachers in…
Descriptors: Barriers, Inquiry, Active Learning, Science Instruction
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Makwinya, Noel M.; McKinnon, David H.; Lummis, Geoffrey W. – International Journal of Science Education, 2022
Secondary school teachers in Tanzania have been attempting to implement the inquiry-based science curriculum since 2005. This study is descriptive and was designed within the realms of a Type IV case-study design (Yin, R. K. 2014. "Case study research: Design and methods" 5th ed. SAGE) to investigate their concerns in dealing with this…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Case Studies, Teacher Attitudes
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Baroudi, Sandra; Rodjan Helder, Marlieke – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2021
Background: Implementing Inquiry-Based Instruction (IBI) in science is a complex process demanding certain classroom conditions prepared with instructional materials to engage students in tasks, as well as adopting the social context that will shape the inquiry-based learning environment. Within this social context, teachers are the main agents…
Descriptors: Curriculum Implementation, Science Instruction, Science Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
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Amedee Marchand Martella; David Klahr; Weiling Li – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
"Active learning" has been used to describe classrooms that have varied widely with respect to instructional topics, age of learners, and the procedures used to operationalize the general notion of the term. In most cases, the specific variant of active learning under investigation has been more effective than the particular control used…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Grade 4, Design
Blevins, Kathryn – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this basic qualitative research study was to identify the extent to which kindergarten teachers understand and implement inquiry-based instruction in their science classrooms. This study was conducted in response to the indication that traditional didactic teaching methods were not enough to adequately prepare American students to…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Knowledge Level, Knowledge Base for Teaching
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