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Jessica Schmitz - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Sylvie Boutonné - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The local production of order in Traditional Science laboratories: A phenomenological analysis
    Learning and Instruction, 1997
    Co-Authors: Wolff-michael Roth, Campbell J. Mcrobbie, Keith B. Lucas, Sylvie Boutonné
    Abstract:

    Abstract There is a lack of studies that sharply focus on what students are actually doing in Science laboratories. This study was designed to provide a fine-grained description of students' discursive and material actions in a Traditional senior physics class. Over a 6-week period, an extensive data base was established which included video tapes, observations, interviews, tests and examinations, and responses to several instruments relating to students' views of classroom environment, epistemology and their own learning. From these data sources and from a phenomenological perspective, we construed the processes by which students brought order to their observations and material practices. The results show that the phenomena students constructed from their work in the laboratory arise from an intertwining of embodied practices (language and physical action), world, and social relations. The adequacy of any action was determined through an interpretation of the outcomes and not through an assessment of the actions per se. Students frequently constructed phenomena that were not those of canonical Science because they lacked the necessary competent embodied practices and because they brought different interpretive horizons to the task at hand. Strategies for dealing with students' non-canonical phenomena during laboratory instruction are proposed.

Dana Casper - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Wolff-michael Roth - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The local production of order in Traditional Science laboratories: A phenomenological analysis
    Learning and Instruction, 1997
    Co-Authors: Wolff-michael Roth, Campbell J. Mcrobbie, Keith B. Lucas, Sylvie Boutonné
    Abstract:

    Abstract There is a lack of studies that sharply focus on what students are actually doing in Science laboratories. This study was designed to provide a fine-grained description of students' discursive and material actions in a Traditional senior physics class. Over a 6-week period, an extensive data base was established which included video tapes, observations, interviews, tests and examinations, and responses to several instruments relating to students' views of classroom environment, epistemology and their own learning. From these data sources and from a phenomenological perspective, we construed the processes by which students brought order to their observations and material practices. The results show that the phenomena students constructed from their work in the laboratory arise from an intertwining of embodied practices (language and physical action), world, and social relations. The adequacy of any action was determined through an interpretation of the outcomes and not through an assessment of the actions per se. Students frequently constructed phenomena that were not those of canonical Science because they lacked the necessary competent embodied practices and because they brought different interpretive horizons to the task at hand. Strategies for dealing with students' non-canonical phenomena during laboratory instruction are proposed.

Brian Hand - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • comparing an inquiry based approach known as the Science writing heuristic to Traditional Science teaching practices are there differences
    International Journal of Science Education, 2007
    Co-Authors: Recai Akkus, Murat Gunel, Brian Hand
    Abstract:

    Many state and federal governments have mandated in such documents as the National Science Education Standards that inquiry strategies should be the focus of the teaching of Science within school classrooms. The difficult part for success is changing teacher practices from perceived Traditional ways of teaching to more inquiry‐based approaches. Arguments are often made about the effectiveness of these Traditional strategies. The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of the inquiry‐based approach known as the Science Writing Heuristic approach as a treatment to Traditional teaching practices on students' post‐test scores in relation to students' achievement level and teacher's implementation of the approach. A mixed‐method research approach was used to analyze the teacher observational data and students' test results. The major findings of this study are that the quality of the implementation does have an impact on student performance on post‐test scores and that high‐quality implementatio...