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Direct linkDaniel Schmerse; Henning Dominke; Jana Mohr; Mirjam Steffensky – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
The objective of the current study was to identify an effective learning environment for kindergarten students as they acquire an initial understanding of scientific inquiry activities (SIA) and a simple (idealized) scientific inquiry cycle (SIC). The study aimed to examine (a) the effects of instructional support and (b) the role of similarity…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Science Instruction, Inquiry
Tobias Lieberei; Leroy Großmann; Virginia Deborah Elaine Welter; Dirk Krüger; Moritz Krell – Research in Science Education, 2025
The use of multiple-choice (MC) instruments to assess pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) has advantages in terms of test economy and objectivity, but it also poses challenges, for example, in terms of adequately capturing the intended construct. To help address these challenges, we developed and evaluated a new instrument to assess science…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Science Teachers, Logical Thinking
Thomas Schubatzky; Claudia Haagen-Schützenhöfer; Rainer Wackermann; Carina Wöhlke; Sarah Wildbichler – Science Education, 2024
The greenhouse effect is a complex scientific phenomenon that plays a crucial role in understanding climate change. Grasping students' understanding of this phenomenon on the content-specific level but also how students' conceptions are organized is vital for effective climate change education. This study addresses both levels and delves into the…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 11, Secondary School Science, Science Instruction
Fiedler, Daniela; Moormann, Alexandra; Beniermann, Anna – Science Education, 2024
Evolution understanding is often positively connected with magnitudes of evolution acceptance, whereas religiosity mostly interferes negatively. However, comparisons between studies and countries must be treated cautiously due to the diversity of used instruments and samples. This study aims to generate new evidence concerning the interplay of…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Biology, Science Instruction, Secondary School Students
Schmitt, Lukas; Weber, Anke; Venitz, Laura; Leuchter, Miriam – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
Background: The importance of diagnostic and scaffolding activities for early science learning has been shown consistently. However, preschool teachers scarcely engage in them. We developed an instrument to assess preschool teachers' willingness to engage in diagnostic and scaffolding activities in science learning situations and examined its…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Preschool Education, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Student Attitudes
Marcus Kubsch – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
Energy is a central concept across the sciences and an important goal of science education is to support all students so that they develop a full understanding of the energy concept. However, given the abstract and complex nature of the energy concept, only a few students develop an understanding so that they can use energy ideas to make sense of…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
Jaimes, Patricia; Libarkin, Julie C.; Conrad, Dominik – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2020
While interdisciplinary collaboration is desired among researchers, traditional science instruction generally results in science disciplines being taught as separate entities. This study focuses on student understanding of concepts at the intersection of two isolated disciplines--geoscience and bioscience--across two purposeful samples of…
Descriptors: College Students, Knowledge Level, Scientific Concepts, Earth Science
Hermanns, Jolanda; Keller, David – Journal of Chemical Education, 2021
In this paper the development, use, and evaluation of tasks based on the construct of school-related content knowledge are described. The tasks were used in seminars on organic chemistry for bachelor and master preservice chemistry teachers at a German university. For the evaluation a questionnaire with open and closed items was used. The tasks…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Science Instruction, Knowledge Level, Preservice Teacher Education
Rodemer, Marc; Eckhard, Julia; Graulich, Nicole; Bernholt, Sascha – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
Research in science education agrees that one of the key challenges of learners in the discipline is certainly connecting domain-specific representations to the underlying concepts. One way of supporting students to make applicable connections is using purposefully designed highlighting techniques in multimedia instructions. In order to examine…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Organic Chemistry, Video Technology, Scientific Concepts
Lenzer, Stefanie; Smarsly, Bernd; Graulich, Nicole – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
The need to develop clean-energy storage systems, harvesting technologies, and new functional materials are but a few of the many contemporary challenges in the domain of science today. To address these challenges, problem solving has become a key skill of the 21st century. It is generally documented, however, that experts and students differ in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Science, Science Instruction, Chemistry
Asshoff, Roman; Hallerbach, Pia; Reinhardt, Klaus – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
Parasites evoke an array of emotions that subsequently can govern our action as well as our precautionary measures. If parasites are unknown, an important question is how people can be educated about this parasite. Bedbugs are blood-sucking human parasites that (i) stigmatise hosts, (ii) are hardly correctly identified by people in the western…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Student Interests, Secondary School Students, Biology
Woitkowski, David – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
The introductory phase of studying physics poses a wide range of challenging problems to new students. One of them is learning physics on a new, more abstract and highly mathematised level, at high speed, in a lowly regulated learning environment. While several German universities have taken action to mitigate these problems, much knowledge about…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Science Achievement, Achievement Gains
Download full textKubsch, Marcus; Nordine, Jeffrey; Neumann, Knut; Fortus, David; Krajcik, Joseph – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2019
Modern science standards emphasize knowledge-in-use, i.e., connecting scientific practices with content. For knowledge to become usable in knowledge-in-use performances, students need well organized knowledge networks that allow them to activate and connect sets of relevant ideas across contexts, i.e. students need integrated knowledge. We…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Energy, Science Instruction, Knowledge Level
Lederman, Judith; Lederman, Norman; Bartels, Selina; Jimenez, Juan; Akubo, Mark; Aly, Shereen; Bao, Chengcheng; Blanquet, Estelle; Blonder, Ron; Bologna Soares de Andrade, Mariana; Buntting, Catherine; Cakir, Mustafa; EL-Deghaidy, Heba; ElZorkani, Ahmed; Gaigher, Estelle; Guo, Shuchen; Hakanen, Arvi; Hamed Al-Lal, Soraya; Han-Tosunoglu, Cigdem; Hattingh, Annemarie; Hume, Anne; Irez, Serhat; Kay, Gillian; Kivilcan Dogan, Ozgur; Kremer, Kerstin; Kuo, Pi-Chu; Lavonen, Jari; Lin, Shu-Fen; Liu, Cheng; Liu, Enshan; Liu, Shiang-Yao; Lv, Bin; Mamlok-Naaman, Rachel; McDonald, Christine; Neumann, Irene; Pan, Yaozhen; Picholle, Eric; Rivero García, Ana; Rundgren, Carl-Johan; Santibáñez-Gómez, David; Saunders, Kathy; Schwartz, Renee; Voitle, Frauke; von Gyllenpalm, Jakob; Wei, Fangbing; Wishart, Jocelyn; Wu, Zhifeng; Xiao, Huang; Yalaki, Yalcin; Zhou, Qiaoxue – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2019
Although understandings of scientific inquiry (as opposed to conducting inquiry) are included in science education reform documents around the world, little is known about what students have learned about inquiry during their elementary school years. This is partially due to the lack of any assessment instrument to measure understandings about…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Middle School Students, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Rüschenpöhler, Lilith; Markic, Silvija – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2020
Research has shown that students' science capital has a large impact on their science aspirations and their development of science identities. In this study, we apply the notion of science capital to chemistry education in order to investigate how students make use of science capital in the field of chemistry. We define chemistry capital as a…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Chemistry, Secondary School Students, Family Influence
