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Direct linkManz, Eve; Georgen, Chris – Science Education, 2023
Both professional and classroom-based scientific communities develop and test explanatory models of the natural world. For students to take up models as tools for sensemaking, practice must be agentive (where students use and revise models "for" specific purposes) and conceptually productive (where students make progress on their ideas).…
Descriptors: Models, Grade 5, Science Education, Scientific Concepts
Download full textTaksina Sreelohor; Sarawut Jakpeng; Sumalee Chaijaroen – Journal of Education and Learning, 2025
This study aims to develop and validate a Constructivist Learning Environment Model to address secondary students' misconceptions in learning Science. Employing a Design and Development approach (Richey & Klein, 2007), the research is conducted in two phases. Phase 1 focuses on model design, drawing from an extensive literature review to…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Science Education, Scientific Concepts, Misconceptions
Edmonds, Juliet – Primary Science, 2022
A drama model can be helpful to support children's understanding of some of the more abstract parts of the science curriculum. The drama models can usefully enhance children's understanding of scientific processes and concepts. They can help to link the practical activities with the conceptual understanding. The use of more than one way of…
Descriptors: Drama, Science Education, Scientific Concepts, Elementary School Science
Sarah N. Abdo; Jeremy L. Hsu; Constantine Kapetanakis; Dina L. Newman; L. Kate Wright; Jennifer Bailey – Journal of Chemical Education, 2024
Effective spatial visualization and reasoning skills are often credited for students' success in science and engineering courses. However, students enrolled in these science courses are not always exposed to or trained properly on the best ways to utilize models to aid in their learning. Improving spatial visualization techniques with 3D models,…
Descriptors: Models, Visual Aids, Concept Formation, Molecular Structure
Winkelmann, Jan – Science & Education, 2023
Idealizations are omnipresent in science. However, to date, science education research has paid surprisingly little attention to the use of idealizations in fostering students' model competence and understanding of the nature of science (NOS). The starting point for the theoretical reflection in this paper is that insufficient consideration of…
Descriptors: Science Education, Scientific Concepts, Educational Research, Science Instruction
STEM Education: Understanding the Effects of Student Interest in Science Using the 5E Learning Model
Heather Kuethe; Mohammad Albataineh; Adel Al-Bataineh – International Journal of Technology in Education, 2025
This study examined student engagement in sixth-grade science using the 5E Learning Model. A qualitative research approach was used to explore the effectiveness of the 5E learning model compared to the inquiry-based learning model used to integrate STEM within the sixth-grade science classroom. Data was gathered through observations, time on task,…
Descriptors: Science Education, Grade 6, Learner Engagement, STEM Education
Kaliampos, George; Mavropoulou, Sofia; Kollias, Vasilis; Ravanis, Konstantinos; Vavougios, Denis – Research in Science Education, 2023
While research on the understanding of physics concepts in individuals with autism remains scarce, the ever-increasing number of these students in inclusive education nowadays makes their systematic education in all fields of learning necessary. For this purpose, an experimental investigation was conducted to compare 19 autistic adolescents with a…
Descriptors: Physics, Scientific Concepts, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Inclusion
Michael R. Brudzinski; Thomas F. Shipley; Joy Ham – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2025
Recent studies have identified an incomplete student understanding of how elastic rebound causes earthquakes. We hypothesized that realistic imaging of spatial patterns in ground motions over the course of the earthquake cycle would improve student understanding. Incorporating spatial change information in the form of both motion vectors and…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Concept Formation, Geographic Information Systems, Undergraduate Students
Benjie Wang; Wei Han; Qingdian Kong; Huanxia Wang; Yingjie Zhang – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
Enhancing students' conceptual understanding is one of the primary goals of science education. Existing literature suggests that the degree of knowledge integration among students can reflect their level of conceptual understanding. This study focuses on the concept of friction force, constructing a cognitive structure model of friction force to…
Descriptors: High School Students, Physics, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation
Sevgül Çalis – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2024
This study focuses on examining the mental models of 11th and 12th-grade students attending a science high school in Turkey regarding the concept of the electron cloud. The study involved 72 students and employed the case study method. The precondition for selecting the sample was that the students had covered the unit on modern atomic theory in…
Descriptors: High School Students, Secondary School Science, Grade 11, Grade 12
Konnor Brennan – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation aimed to advance the field of biology education in several ways. First, we aimed to demonstrate if, and to what extent, student-generated conceptual models can be used on summative assessments to accurately assess student understanding of gene expression. Next, we described patterns of changes students make to conceptual models…
Descriptors: Models, Formative Evaluation, Summative Evaluation, Introductory Courses
Potvin, Patrice; Nenciovici, Lucian; Malenfant-Robichaud, Guillaume; Thibault, François; Sy, Ousmane; Mahhou, Mohamed Amine; Bernard, Alex; Allaire-Duquette, Geneviève; Blanchette Sarrasin, Jérémie; Brault Foisy, Lorie-Marlène; Brouillette, Nancy; St-Aubin, Audrey-Anne; Charland, Patrick; Masson, Steve; Riopel, Martin; Tsai, Chin-Chung; Bélanger, Michel; Chastenay, Pierre – Studies in Science Education, 2020
In this article, we propose an analysis of the state of, and trends in, the field of conceptual change research in science education through the lens of its models. Using a quantitative approach, we reviewed all conceptual change articles (n = 245) published in five major journals in the field of science education in search of the support that…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Science Instruction, Science Education
Wiegelmann, Judith; Zabel, Jörg – Environmental Education Research, 2021
The 2019 published report of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem (IPBES) reveals that the decline in species and habitats induced by human activities is continuing. School students still have difficulties to understand the meaning of biodiversity and the consequences of its loss. The underlying assumption of…
Descriptors: Biodiversity, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Researchers
Forbes-Lorman, Robin; Korb, Michele; Moser, Amy; Franzen, Margaret A.; Harris, Michelle A. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2022
Physical and life science disciplines emphasize how basic structural units influence function, yet it is challenging for students to understand structure-function relationships, particularly at molecular scales. Undergraduates in our biology capstone course struggled to connect mutations in a gene encoding a key protein in a cell development…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Science Education, Undergraduate Students, Summative Evaluation
Capps, Daniel K.; Shemwell, Jonathan T. – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
An important research objective in modelling instruction is defining what students should learn about the model-referent relationship, as when unguided, they tend to errantly think of models as literal interpretations of their referents. Restating this problem we say students should learn about structure-preserving transformations between models…
Descriptors: Models, Science Process Skills, Science Education, Concept Formation
