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Teaching aspects of the interrelationship between science and technology: a research report on the design, enactment and evaluation of a teaching proposal
(2019)
Background: Helping upper elementary and lower secondary school students develop an awareness of various aspects of the nature of science (NOS) and nature of technology (NOT) is a widely recognized goal of science teaching. ...
Objects, entities, behaviors, and interactions: A typology of student-constructed computer-based models of physical phenomena
(2011)
The purpose of this study was to develop a framework for analyzing and evaluating student-constructed models of physical phenomena and monitoring the progress of these models. Moreover, we aimed to examine whether this ...
Assessment of the modeling competence: A systematic review and synthesis of empirical research
(2014)
We provide an analysis of the existing literature on the assessment of modeling as a scientific competence focusing on empirical research findings. Out of 802 searched citations, a total of 23 publications from science ...
Energy in Education
(2012)
Teaching and learning about energy at the various levels of school science has been a topic of interest in science education research for nearly five decades. This interest has been motivated by the need to help students ...
The pursuit of a “better” explanation as an organizing framework for science teaching and learning
(2018)
This article seeks to make the case for the pursuit of a “better” explanation being a productive organizing framework for science teaching and learning. Underlying this position is the idea that this framework allows ...
A Philosophically Informed Teaching Proposal on the Topic of Energy for Students Aged 11-14
(2011)
Learning about energy is recognized as an important objective of science teaching starting from the elementary school. This creates the need for teaching simplifications that compromise the abstract nature of this concept ...
Cognitive processes enacted by learners during co-construction of scientific models
(Oesterreichische Computer Gesellschaft, 2014)
The study documents on our effort to analyse students’ cognitive processes during modeling-based learning. A modeling-based teaching intervention was developed and implemented during a summer science class at the University ...
Pre-service Elementary School Teachers’ Ability to Account for the Operation of Simple Physical Systems Using the Energy Conservation Law
(2014)
Energy is recognized as a core idea in science and, hence, a significant learning objective of science education. The effective promotion of this learning objective posits that teachers themselves possess sound conceptual ...