In line with current trends about developing teaching learning sequences in science education we have designed an innovative inquiry oriented module aiming at providing secondary education students with a comprehensive treatment ...

Numerous research studies in the last thirty years have highlighted the inadequacy of the traditional introductory physics course. It has been shown that students who leave such courses tend to have incoherent physics knowledge ...

With the political change in 1994, South Africa entered a period of dramatic educational change. The former positivist school curriculum was replaced with an outcomes-based curriculum. In outcomes-based education (OBE) ...

The combination of the computerized Digalo (Schwarz & de Groot, 2007) as a graphical tool for representing argumentative moves in on-going e-discussions and the Thinking Journey (TJ) mode of instruction (Schur and Galili, ...

This research is part of a project designed to promote children’s interest both in Science and scientific careers. The project focuses on the specific domain of Materials Science (i.e., the materials around us, their ...

In this paper we present preliminary results of a design-based research about a teaching/learning unit on Sound Attenuation, which is part of a international research-based curriculum project on Materials Science. The ...

Following independence, Lithuania introduced changes into the health care and higher education sectors, in order to improve the quality of medical studies in the European context. While new subjects were added to the ...

In a laboratory activity students study the behaviour of a bouncing ball. With the help of a high-speed camera they can study the motion in detail. Computer modelling enables them to relate the measurement results to the ...

Critical thinking is usually seen as crucial to Physics learning. This is clearly stated in the purposes of many Physics’ curricula. In fact, since Dewey, several authors argue that critical thinking is fundamental to ...

In this paper, we discuss a contribution toward the use of analogical reasoning by explicit system dynamics modeling of physical processes. The relational structures found in simple models are transferred to an example ...