Browsing by Author "Louca, Loucas T."
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Developing teaching responsiveness to children’s inquiry in science: A case study of professional development for pre-school teachers
Louca, Loucas T.; Tzialli, Dora; Skoulia, Thea; Constantinou, Constantinos P. (2013)Supporting inquiry in the science classroom is challenging work, demanding that teachers utilize abilities for addressing and responding to children’s inquiry. These abilities include, (a) knowledge of the various forms ...
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Examining Learning Through Modeling in K-6 Science Education
Louca, Loucas T.; Zacharia, Zacharias C. (2015)Despite the abundance of research in Modeling-based Learning (MbL) in science education, to date there is only limited research on MbL practices among K-6 novice modelers. More specifically, there is no information on how ...
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‘The exchange of ideas was mutual, I have to say’: negotiating researcher and teacher ‘roles’ in an early years educators’ professional development programme on inquiry-based mathematics and science learning
Philippou, Stavroula; Papademetri-Kachrimani, C.; Louca, Loucas T. (2015)This paper explores the experiences of 14 early years educators who participated in a continuing professional development (CPD) programme coordinated by two of the paper’s authors. The programme was part of a three-year ...
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Identification - Interpretation/evaluation - Response: A framework for analyzing classroom-based teacher discourse in science
Louca, Loucas T.; Tzialli, Dora; Zacharia, Zacharias C. (2008)
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Identification, Interpretation-Evaluation, Response: An alternative framework for analyzing teacher discourse in science
Louca, Loucas T.; Zacharia, Zacharias C.; Tzialli, Dora (2012)Although research has come to recognize the importance of studying classroom-based student–teacher discourse in science, the emphasis remains largely on teachers' abilities to ask questions and provide students with feedback, ...
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In Quest of productive modeling-based learning discourse in elementary school science
Louca, Loucas T.; Zacharia, Zacharias C.; Constantinou, Constantinos P. (2011)The purpose of this study was to investigate whole classroom discourse during modeling-based learning in science, seeking to describe the discourse's characteristics, its relation to the micro-context in which it took place ...
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Investigating how graphical and textual computer-based programming environments support student inquiry in science during modeling
Zacharia, Zacharias C.; Louca, Loucas T. (2011)In this paper we investigate the ways that a graphical and a textual Computer-based Programming Environment (CPE) support student inquiry in science during scientific modeling. We analyzed the conversations of 78 sixth-graders ...
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Modeling-based learning in science education: Cognitive, metacognitive, social, material and epistemological contributions
Louca, Loucas T.; Zacharia, Zacharias C. (2012)Models and modeling are considered integral parts of scientific literacy, reflecting educators' efforts to introduce and engage students in authentic scientific inquiry through Modeling-based Learning (MbL) approaches in ...
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Objects, entities, behaviors, and interactions: A typology of student-constructed computer-based models of physical phenomena
Louca, Loucas T.; Zacharia, Zacharias C.; Michael, Michalis; Constantinou, Constantinos P. (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 ...
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The use of computer-based programming environments as computer modelling tools in early science education: The cases of textual and graphical program languages
Louca, Loucas T.; Zacharia, Zacharias C. (2008)This is an interpretive case study seeking to develop detailed and comparative descriptions of how two groups of fifth-grade students used two different Computer-based Programming Environments (CPEs) (namely Microworlds ...