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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)
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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