Collaborative group engagement in a computer-supported inquiry learning environment

S Sinha, TK Rogat, KR Adams-Wiggins… - International Journal of …, 2015 - Springer
Computer-supported collaborative learning environments provide opportunities for students
to collaborate in inquiry-based practices to solve authentic problems, using technological …

Systems learning with a conceptual representation: A quasi-experimental study

CE Hmelo-Silver, R Jordan, C Eberbach, S Sinha - Instructional Science, 2017 - Springer
In this paper, we share results from a classroom intervention that used a conceptual
representation to support reasoning about ecosystems. Engaging students in modeling …

Impact of computer modeling on learning and teaching systems thinking

H Nguyen, R Santagata - Journal of Research in Science …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Researchers have found that computer modeling fosters the learning of causal mechanisms
in systems, an important crosscutting concept in science that many novice learners find …

Building a computational model of food webs: Impacts on middle school students' computational and systems thinking skills

A Rachmatullah, EN Wiebe - Journal of Research in Science …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Integral to fostering computational thinking (CT) skills, which are increasingly essential in
today's digital era, has been the shift of paper‐based pictorial modeling activities to …

Multidimensional trajectories for understanding ecosystems

C Eberbach, CE Hmelo‐Silver, R Jordan… - Science …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This study examines how middle school students develop an increasingly coherent
understanding of aquatic ecosystems. As part of a broader design research study that used …

Balancing broad ideas with context: An evaluation of student accuracy in describing ecosystem processes after a system-level intervention

RC Jordan, WR Brooks, C Hmelo-Silver… - Journal of Biological …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Promoting student understanding of ecosystem processes is critical to biological education.
Yet, teaching complex life systems can be difficult because systems are dynamic and often …

Promoting college students' systems thinking in asynchronous discussions: Encouraging students initiating questions

Y Yu, G Chen, Y Tao, X Li, L Yang, S Dong - Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Systems thinking is one of the most important thinking skills for medical
students. Most of the studies focused on designing technological-rich learning environments …

Comparison of the Effects of Emergency Distance and Face-to-Face Education Applications on Students' Analytical Thinking Skills in Science Course: Example of …

H Kocabas, E Özata Yücel - Science Education International, 2022 - ERIC
The aim of this study was to compare the analytical thinking skills of the 8th grade students
who received emergency distance and face-to-face education in a science course and to get …

Design conjectures for place-based science learning about water: Implementing mobile augmented reality with families

HT Zimmerman, SM Land, K Grills, YC Chiu, YJ Jung… - 2020 - scholarsphere.psu.edu
From a design-based research study with 31 families, we share the design conjectures that
guided the first two iterations of research. The team developed a mobile augmented reality …

Systems object framework: A framework for describing students' depiction of object organisation within systems

N Ghalichi, A Schuchardt, G Roehrig - International Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Develo** students' ability to think about systems, as opposed to isolated facts, is of central
importance in much of science teaching. Prior work in this area has focused on students' …