Browsing Τμήμα Επιστημών της Αγωγής / Department of Education by Author "Zacharia, Zacharias C."
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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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Identifying potential types of guidance for supporting student inquiry when using virtual and remote labs in science: a literature review
Zacharia, Zacharias C.; Manoli, Constantinos C.; Xenofontos, N. A.; De Jong, Ton; Pedaste, M.; van Riesen, S. A. N.; Kamp, E. T.; Mäeots, M.; Siiman, L. A.; Tsourlidaki, E. (2015)The aim of this review is to identify specific types of guidance for supporting student use of online labs, that is, virtual and remote labs, in an inquiry context. To do so, we reviewed the literature on providing guidance ...
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The Impact of Interactive Computer Simulations on the Nature and Quality of Postgraduate Science Teachers' Explanations in Physics
Zacharia, Zacharias C. (International Journal of Science Education, 2005)This study investigated how individuals' construction of explanations--a way of ascertaining how well an individual understands a concept--develops from an interactive simulation. Specifically, the purpose was to investigate ...
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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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Inquiry-based learning and retrospective action: Problematizing student work in a computer-supported learning environment
Xenofontos, Nikoletta A.; Hovardas, Tasos; Zacharia, Zacharias C.; Jong, Ton de (2020)We examined student performance in a computer-supported learning environment after students undertook, among others, a graphing task within an inquiry context. Students were assigned in two conditions: (a) Students were ...
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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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Investigating secondary school students' unmediated peer assessment skills
Tsivitanidou, Olia E.; Zacharia, Zacharias C.; Hovardas, Tasos (2011)The purpose of this study was to investigate secondary school students' unmediated peer assessment skills. Specifically, 36 seventh graders, without receiving any kind of support, were anonymously assigned to reciprocally ...
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Is physicality an important aspect of learning through science experimentation among kindergarten students?
Zacharia, Zacharias C.; Loizou, Eleni; Papaevripidou, Marios (2012)The purpose of this study was to investigate whether physicality (actual and active touch of concrete material), as such, is a necessity for science experimentation learning at the kindergarten level. We compared the effects ...
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Learning by creating and exchanging objects: The SCY experience
De Jong, Ton; Van Joolingen, W. R.; Giemza, A.; Girault, I.; Hoppe, U.; Kindermann, J.; Kluge, A.; Lazonder, A. W.; Vold, V.; Weinberger, A.; Weinbrenner, S.; Wichmann, A.; Anjewierden, A.; Bodin, M.; Bollen, L.; D'Ham, C.; Dolonen, J.; Engler, J.; Geraedts, C.; Grosskreutz, H.; Hovardas, Tasos; Julien, R.; Lechner, J.; Ludvigsen, Sten; Matteman, Yuri; Meistadt, Ø.; Næss, B.; Ney, M.; Pedaste, M.; Perritano, A.; Rinket, M.; Von Schlanbusch, H.; Sarapuu, T.; Schulz, F.; Sikken, J.; Slotta, J.; Toussaint, J.; Verkade, A.; Wajeman, C.; Wasson, B.; Zacharia, Zacharias C.; Van Der Zanden, M. (2010)
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Making the invisible visible: enhancing students' conceptual understanding by introducing representations of abstract objects in a simulation
Olympiou, Georgios; Zacharia, Zacharias C.; De Jong, Ton (2013)This study aimed to identify if complementing representations of concrete objects with representations of abstract objects improves students' conceptual understanding as they use a simulation to experiment in the domain ...
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Making the invisible visible: Enhancing students' conceptual understanding by introducing representations of abstract objects in a simulation.
Olympiou, Georgios; Zacharia, Zacharias C.; De Jong, Ton (2013)This study aimed to identify if complementing representations of concrete objects with representations of abstract objects improves students’ conceptual understanding as they use a simulation to experiment in the domain ...
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Managing teachers’ practicum in initial teacher preparation using an elearning platform
Zacharia, Zacharias C.; Evagorou, Maria; Constantinou, Constantinos P.; Papaevripidou, Marios; Kyratsi, Theodora (University of Zilina, 2005)This research study focuses on the development and evaluation of the Learning Space Platform as a resource for the improvement of the pre-service Teachers’ Practicum. The Teachers’ Practicum is a compulsory course for ...
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A model-based inquiry approach to explore system dynamics and modeling aspects of the prey-predator system
Hovardas, Tasos; Zacharia, Zacharias C. (2016)
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A model-based inquiry approach to explore system dynamics and modeling aspects of the prey-predator system
Hovardas, Tasos; Zacharia, Zacharias C. (Springer, 2019)This book introduces state-of-the-art research on simulation and serious games for education. Based partially on work presented at the 3rd Asia-Europe Symposium on Simulation and Serious Games (3rd AESSSG) held in Zhuhai, ...
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Modeling complex marine ecosystems: An investigation of two teaching approaches with fifth graders
Papaevripidou, Marios; Constantinou, Constantinos P.; Zacharia, Zacharias C. (2007)Abstract This study investigated acquisition and transfer of the modeling ability of fifth graders in various domains. Teaching interventions concentrated on the topic of marine ecosystems either through a modeling-based ...
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Modeling with stagecast creator: a video-case Study describing the process of Developing, evaluating and refining models of Accelerated motion in elementary school
Louca, Loucas S.; Zacharia, Zacharias C. (University of Cyprus, 2007)This paper describes a video case study from an elementary science/computer after-school club during which eleven sixth graders used Stagecast Creator™ to develop computer-based models of accelerated motion. Research in ...
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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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Peer Assessment among Secondary School Students: Introducing a Peer Feedback Tool in the Context of a Computer Supported Inquiry Learning Environment in Science
Tsivitanidou, Olia E.; Zacharia, Zacharias C.; Hovardas, Tasos; Nicolaou, Aphrodite (Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2012)In this study we introduced a peer feedback tool to secondary school students while aiming at investigating whether this tool leads to a feedback dialogue when using a computer supported inquiry learning environment in ...