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Bit by Bit or All at Once? Splitting up the Inquiry Task to Promote Children's Scientific Reasoning
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Lazonder, Ard W.; Kamp, Ellen – Learning and Instruction, 2012
This study examined whether and why assigning children to a segmented inquiry task makes their investigations more productive. Sixty-one upper elementary-school pupils engaged in a simulation-based inquiry assignment either received a multivariable inquiry task (n = 21), a segmented version of this task that addressed the variables in successive…
Descriptors: Investigations, Inferences, Science Instruction, Inquiry
How Gender Influences Learners Working Collaboratively with Science Simulations.
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Scanlon, Eileen – Learning and Instruction, 2000
Reviews results of three studies of groups working with science simulations, focusing on gender effects on science learning. Results from pairs of adults, pairs of 15-year-olds, and larger groups of young children show that particular features of the learning experience are altered by the gender composition of groups. Discusses implications for…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Attitudes, Cooperation
Discovery Learning, Representation, and Explanation within a Computer-Based Simulation: Finding the Right Mix
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Rieber, Lloyd P.; Tzeng, Shyh-Chii; Tribble, Kelly – Learning and Instruction, 2004
The purpose of this research was to explore how adult users interact and learn during an interactive computer-based simulation supplemented with brief multimedia explanations of the content. A total of 52 college students interacted with a computer-based simulation of Newton's laws of motion in which they had control over the motion of a simple…
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Computer Simulation, Multimedia Instruction, College Students