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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. ...
Sixth Graders' Co-construction of Explanations of a Disturbance in an Ecosystem: Exploring relationships between grouping, reflective scaffolding, and evidence-based explanations
(2011)
We report on a study investigating the relationship between cognitive ability grouping, reflective inquiry scaffolding, and students' collaborative explanations of an ecosystem disturbance which took place when a number ...
The properties and the nature of light: The study of newton's work and the teaching of opticsScience and Education
(2005)
The history of science shows that for each scientific issue there may be more than one models that are simultaneously accepted by the scientific community. One such case concerns the wave and corpuscular models of light. ...
Creativity in physics: Response fluency and task specificity
(2000)
The purpose of this study was to explore creativity in the domain of physics and, specifically, its relation to fluency of responses (divergent thinking) and type of task. Fifty-four university students were pretested on ...
Young children’s construction of operational definitions in magnetism: The role of cognitive readiness and scaffolding the learning environment
(Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001)
An investigation of the potential of interactive simulations for developing system thinking skills in elementary school: A case study with fifth-graders and sixth-graders
(2009)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of a simulation-based learning environment on elementary school students' (11-12 years old) development of system thinking skills. The learning environment included ...
Potential Contribution of Digital Video to the Analysis of the Learning Process in Physics: A Case Study in the Context of Electric Circuits
(2004)
We seek to demonstrate how digital video technology can contribute towards our understanding of the process of development of conceptual understanding in physics. We use digital video to analyze 4 brief Physics by Inquiry ...
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 ...