Scientific discovery learning is a highly self-directed and constructivistic form of learning. A
computer simulation is a type of computer-based environment that is well suited for …

A main goal of science education is to help students learn to reason scientifically. A main
way to facilitate learning is to engage students in inquiry activities such as conducting …

Inquiry experiences can provide valuable opportunities for students to improve their
understanding of both science content and scientific practices. However, the implementation …

This exploratory study examines how a series of laboratory activities designed using a new
instructional model, called Argument‐Driven Inquiry (ADI), influences the ways students …

This chapter examinse how the mechanisms of structuring and problematizing are
sometimes complementary and sometimes in tension in design, discuss design tradeoffs in …

This chapter presents a scaffolding design framework addressing scaffolded software tools
for science inquiry. Developed through iterative cycles of inductive and theory-based …

Science education reforms consistently maintain the goal that students develop an
understanding of the nature of science, including both the nature of scientific knowledge and …

This article explores how students' epistemological ideas about the nature of science
interact with their conceptual understanding of a particular domain, as reflected in written …

Early adolescents may lack the cognitive and metacognitive skills necessary for effective
inquiry learning. In particular, they are likely to have a nonnormative mental model of …

The current focus of much work in science education reform is to bring more ambitious
science into classrooms. Education reformers have argued that students need to learn more …