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Peer versus expert feedback: An investigation of the quality of peer feedback among secondary school students
Hovardas, Tasos; Tsivitanidou, Olia E.; Zacharia, Zacharias C. (2014)Few studies have focused on peer assessment at the secondary school level. Consequently, we know very little about the quality of the feedback secondary school students can produce and its potential usefulness. This study ...
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Phases of inquiry-based learning: Definitions and the inquiry cycle
Pedaste, M.; Mäeots, M.; Siiman, L. A.; De Jong, Ton; Van Riesen, S. A. N.; Kamp, E. T.; Manoli, Constantinos C.; Zacharia, Zacharias C.; Tsourlidaki, E. (2015)Inquiry-based learning is gaining popularity in science curricula, international research and development projects as well as teaching. One of the underlying reasons is that its success can be significantly improved due ...
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Physical and virtual laboratories in science and engineering education
De Jong, Ton; Linn, Marcia C.; Zacharia, Zacharias C. (2013)The world needs young people who are skillful in and enthusiastic about science and who view science as their future career field. Ensuring that we will have such young people requires initiatives that engage students in ...
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Conference Object Open Access
Physical meets virtual: blending physical and virtual manipulatives to improve understanding in the domain of light and shadows
Olympiou, Georgios; Zacharia, Zacharias C. (University of Cyprus, 2010)The purpose of this study was to compare the effect of experimenting with Physical Manipulatives (PM), Virtual Manipulatives (VM), and a blended combination of PM and VM, on undergraduate students’ understanding of scientific ...
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Physical versus virtual manipulative experimentation in physics learning
Zacharia, Zacharias C.; Olympiou, Georgios (2011)The aim of this study was to investigate whether physical or virtual manipulative experimentation can differentiate physics learning. There were four experimental conditions, namely Physical Manipulative Experimentation ...
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Providing guidance in virtual lab experimentation: the case of an experiment design tool
Efstathiou, Charalampos; Hovardas, Tasos; Xenofontos, Nikoletta A.; Zacharia, Zacharias C.; deJong, Ton; Anjewierden, Anjo; van Riesen, Siswa A. N. (2018)The present study employed a quasi-experimental design to assess a computer-based tool, which was intended to scaffold the task of designing experiments when using a virtual lab for the process of experimentation. In ...
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The role of information and communication technology in science teaching and learning
Zacharia, Zacharias C.; Constantinou, Constantinos P.; Kommers, P. (2005)
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The role of research in using technology to enhance learning in science
Zacharia, Zacharias C.; Constantinou, Constantinos P. (Taylor & Francis, 2005)This issue is compiled as an attempt to explore the field of technology-enhanced teaching and learning in order to highlight a range of approaches in using research evidence to promote authentic learning through effective ...
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Students' Attitudes toward Progressive and Critical Science Activities.
Zacharia, Zacharias C.; Barton, A. C. (2004)
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A survey on the usage of online labs in science education: Challenges and implications
Heintz, M.; Manoli, Constantinos C.; Zacharia, Zacharias C.; Van Riesen, S. A. N. (2015)
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Conference Object Open Access
Symposium proposal computer-based modeling in science: the case of stagecast creator
Constantinou, Constantinos P.; Louca, Loucas; Nicolaou, Christiana Th.; Papaevripidou, Marios; Zacharia, Zacharias C. (University of Zilina, 2005)There is a longstanding awareness of the need to help students learn about models and modeling in science, and computer-based programming environments are promising tools for this. A computer program can be a model of a ...
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Book Chapter
Toward an Epistemology of Modeling-Based Learning in Early Science Education
Louca, Loucas Τ.; Zacharia, Zacharias C. (Springer International Publishing, 2019)In this chapter we describe a study in which we analyzed student modeling-based learning discourse data to investigate young students’ understandings of models and model use in science. We used rich case studies of ...
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Urban Middle-School Students' Attitudes Toward a Defined Science
Zacharia, Zacharias C.; Barton, A. C. (2004)Recent studies have shown that urban students and students of color have exceptionally negative attitudes toward school science and their futures in that field as compared with white students and nonurban students. In 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 ...
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The use of mobile devices as means of data collection in supporting elementary school students’ conceptual understanding about plants
Zacharia, Zacharias C.; Lazaridou, C.; Avraamidou, Lucy (2016)The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of mobile learning among young learners. Specifically, we investigated whether the use of mobile devices for data collection during field trips outside the classroom could ...
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Conference Object Open Access
Using interactive simulations to enhance Students’ explanations regarding physical Phenomena
Zacharia, Zacharias C. (Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)The objective of this research was to investigate the effects of Interactive Computer-Based Simulations (ICBSs) on student’s ability to give “scientifically accepted” explanations regarding physical phenomena in Mechanics, ...
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Conference Object Open Access
Using physical and virtual manipulatives to Enhance conceptual understanding in heat and temperature
Olympiou, Giorgos; Zacharia, Zacharias C.; Papaevripidou, Marios; Constantinou, Constantinos P. (University of Cyprus, 2007)The purpose of this study was to compare the effect of Physical Manipulatives (PM) and the combination of Physical Manupulatives with Virtual Manipulatives (VM) on pre-service teachers’ understanding of scientific concepts ...
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Using scenarios to design complex technology-enhanced learning environments
De Jong, Ton; Weinberger, A.; Girault, I.; Kluge, A.; Lazonder, A. W.; Pedaste, M.; Ludvigsen, Sten; Ney, M.; Wasson, B.; Wichmann, A.; Geraedts, C.; Giemza, A.; Hovardas, Tasos; Julien, R.; van Joolingen, W. R.; Lejeune, A.; Manoli, Constantinos C.; Matteman, Yuri; Sarapuu, T.; Verkade, A.; Vold, V.; Zacharia, Zacharias C. (2012)
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Conference Object Open Access
Using the attitude-behavior theory of Reasoned action to understand science teachers' attitudes towards physics, computer simulations and inquiry-based experiments
Zacharia, Zacharias C. (Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus, 2003)The purpose of this paper was to investigate how use of an Interactive Computer-Based Simulation (ICBS) prior to performing a Laboratory Inquiry-Based Experiment (LIBE), in a conceptually oriented physics course, affects ...