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Gidele Gito Gizaw; Solomon Sorsa Sota – Science Education International, 2023
This paper aims to review and assess the strategies available in literature to improve the practices of science process skills (SPS) among students. SPS encompasses the mental and physical activities of students in collecting and organizing information and then using the information to make predictions, explain phenomena, solve problems,…
Descriptors: Student Improvement, Science Process Skills, Science Instruction, Scientific Attitudes
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Hümeyra Azize Malay; Salih Çepni; Umut Aydemir – Science & Education, 2025
Photonics is an emerging field of science and technology that is effective in providing sustainable and innovative solutions to twenty-first century problems. Science education includes topics related to light. However, photonics is not yet included in most school curricula as a subject within the domain of science and technology to be presented…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Science Education, Optics
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Burnham, Jennifer Ann Jean – Journal of Chemical Education, 2020
Chemistry graduates follow many different career paths. Skills for Success allows students to develop professional skills of relevance to their ambitions by choosing project work from a range varying both in chemistry content and nature of activity. Students apply for a project, do their project, and reflect on what they have learned throughout.…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Student Centered Learning, Active Learning
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Soraya Abdulatief; Xolisa Guzula – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2024
Background: South Africa's "Language-in-Education Policy" (LiEP) provides for bi/multilingual education, but schools are only supported to choose monolingual English language policies from Grade 4 and ignore the learners' home language or languages as resources for learning. Many teachers translanguage orally, using the learners' home…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Writing (Composition), Code Switching (Language), Epistemology
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Tiril, Hamiye; Okumus, Seda – Journal of Science Learning, 2022
This study aims to reveal the problems faced by a dyslexic student in learning science and determine what can be considered an effective science teaching method for this kind of learner. The case study design was used, and the study was conducted with a 7th-grade dyslexic female student. This study used observations and a semi-structured interview…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Secondary School Students, Females, Dyslexia
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Boothe, Casey; Schaefer, Audra F. – HAPS Educator, 2022
The historical dearth of qualified anatomy educators has been thoroughly discussed in the literature. In recent years, several graduate, postdoctoral, and continuing education programs focused on anatomy education have emerged at various institutions specifically designed to meet the growing demand for qualified anatomy faculty. While these…
Descriptors: Study Skills, Undergraduate Students, Anatomy, Science Instruction
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Achor, Emmanuel E.; Danjuma, Ibrahim A.; Orji, Agraptus B. C. – Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, 2019
In the last decade, evidence in the science education literature seems to suggest that studentcentered classroom interaction appears to have effect over and above teacher-centered interaction in enhancing learning outcomes in various science subjects especially in Physics. Based on this premise, this paper examined the effects of teacher-centered…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Interaction
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Ward, Alexandra M.; Wyllie, Graeme R. A. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2019
We report here a second semester general chemistry laboratory project themed around chitosan-alginate bioplastics. With increasing awareness of plastic pollution in the environment and the awareness of the importance for materials which are either made from renewable resources or are biodegradable, this topic provides a relevant opportunity to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Science, Chemistry, Science Laboratories
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Mahanal, Susriyati; Zubaidah, Siti; Bahri, Arsad; Syahadatud Dinnurriya, Maratusy – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2016
Previous studies in Malang, Indonesia, showed that there were the failure biology learning caused by not only the low students' prior knowledge, but also biology learning model has not improved the students' critical thinking skills yet, which affected the low of cognitive learning outcomes. The learning model is required to improve students'…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Skill Development, Thinking Skills, Biology
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Simonson, Michael, Ed.; Seepersaud, Deborah, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2018
For the forty-first time, the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the annual AECT Convention in Kansas City, Missouri. The Proceedings of AECT's Convention are published in two volumes. Volume 1 contains twenty-seven…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Higher Education