In designing, developing and evaluating educational software supporting reasoning, three aspects are important. The first is the cognitive domain of practice, relating to the nature of reasoning and the idea of support. ...

This study has three primary objectives. First, it describes the ways in which six teachers in an urban school environment in New York City integrated technology within a common and familiar theme among lower grade students, ...

The challenge facing new technologies is whether they can contribute to a qualitative step up and to education for all as a process of facilitating the development of creative people with the ability to think critically ...

CAN is a part of a five-year program meant to create multimedia software tools that offer teachers the possibility to build and present their e-learning applications (courses, seminars, laboratories and exams) in a hypermedia ...

The teachers’ prior practice indicates that the conceptual understanding of buoyancy among lower secondary school students is often deficient. Therefore we introduced a new teaching sequence in which students are ...

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, ...

Παρά την μεγάλη εξέλιξη που έχει γίνει τις τελευταίες δεκαετίες στην έρευνα στην εκπαίδευση των φυσικών επιστημών, παραμένει μάλλον μακριά από τους εκπαιδευτικούς και από τους πολιτικούς της εκπαίδευσης (Millar, 2001, ...