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Natalie E. Wright – Grantee Submission, 2025
Funded through an early-phase Education Innovation and Research grant, Using and Leveraging Technology to Reinvent Accessibility: Minecraft Mentor Edition (ULTRA:ME) is an intervention designed to develop teachers' ability to use Minecraft and other educational technology tools to enhance science instruction for students with and without…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Video Games
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Mihret, Zemenu; Alemu, Mekbib; Assefa, Shimeles – Pedagogical Research, 2023
The objective of this study was to examine the effectiveness of blended physics laboratory experimentation on pre-service physics teachers' (PSPTs') understanding of the nature of science (NOS) during an electricity and magnetism laboratory course. The study used a non-equivalent comparison group using a pre-test-post-test quasi-experimental…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Science Laboratories, Laboratory Experiments
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Natalie E. Wright – Grantee Submission, 2025
Funded through an early-phase Education Innovation and Research grant, Using and Leveraging Technology to Reinvent Accessibility: Minecraft Mentor Edition (ULTRA:ME) is an intervention designed to develop teachers' ability to use Minecraft and other educational technology tools to enhance science instruction for students with and without…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Intervention, Educational Technology
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Stasinakis, Panagiotis K.; Kalogiannnakis, Michail – World Journal of Education, 2017
In this study we aim to find out whether a training program for secondary school science teachers which was organized based on the model of Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK), could improve their individual PCK for a specific scientific issue. The Evolution Theory (ET) and the Natural Selection (NS) were chosen as the scientific issues of…
Descriptors: Integrated Learning Systems, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Campbell, Todd; Longhurst, Max; Duffy, Aaron M.; Wolf, Paul G.; Shelton, Brett E. – Research in Science Education, 2013
This qualitative study examines teacher orientations and technology-enhanced tools for student learning within a science literacy framework. Data for this study came from a group of 10 eighth grade science teachers. Each of these teachers was a participant in a professional development (PD) project focused on reformed and technology-enhanced…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Teachers, Qualitative Research, Educational Technology
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Gobert, Janice D.; O'Dwyer, Laura; Horwitz, Paul; Buckley, Barbara C.; Levy, Sharona Tal; Wilensky, Uri – International Journal of Science Education, 2011
This research addresses high school students' understandings of the nature of models, and their interaction with model-based software in three science domains, namely, biology, physics, and chemistry. Data from 736 high school students' understandings of models were collected using the Students' Understanding of Models in Science (SUMS) survey as…
Descriptors: Test Content, Scientific Principles, Physics, Chemistry
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Almquist, Heather; Stanley, George; Blank, Lisa; Hendrix, Marc; Rosenblatt, Megan; Hanfling, Seymour; Crews, Jeffrey – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2011
The Paleo Exploration Project was a professional development program for K-12 teachers from rural eastern Montana. The curriculum was designed to incorporate geospatial technologies, including Global Positioning Systems (GPS), Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and total station laser surveying, with authentic field experiences in geology and…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Science Instruction, Faculty Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Buxton, Cory A.; Provenzo, Eugene F., Jr. – SAGE Publications (CA), 2010
Featuring an increased emphasis on the way today's changing science and technology is shaping our culture, this Second Edition of "Teaching Science in Elementary and Middle School" provides pre- and in-service teachers with an introduction to basic science concepts and methods of science instruction, as well as practical strategies for the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Multiple Intelligences, Space Sciences, Scientific Principles