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Christothea Herodotou, Maria Aristeidou, Mike Sharples, Eileen Scanlon
This paper reports on a 4-year research and development case study about the design of citizen science tools for inquiry learning. It details the process of iterative pedagogy-led design and evaluation of the nQuire toolkit, a set of web-based and mobile tools scaffolding the creation of online citizen science…
Jing-Yun Fan, Jian-Hong Ye
Among the many teaching methods, inquiry-based teaching is considered to be an effective way for students to learn and solve problems on their own. However, most of the research related to inquiry-based teaching and learning has concentrated mainly on K-12 education, while few to no studies have focused on the…
Furqan I. Aksa
Introduction The frequency and impact of disaster events are increasing on a global scale (Coronese et al. [12]). Based on data released by the International Disaster Database (EM-DAT) in 2018, there were 315 disaster events worldwide, with the death toll reaching 11 804 people, and more than 68 million people were…
Ton de Jong, Denis Gillet, María Jesús Rodríguez-Triana, Tasos Hovardas + 10 more
'Tasos Hovardas' 'Diana Dikke' 'Rosa Doran' 'Olga Dziabenko' 'Jens Koslowsky' 'Miikka Korventausta' 'Effie Law' 'Margus Pedaste' 'Evita Tasiopoulou' 'Gérard Vidal' 'Zacharias C. Zacharia'] Designing and implementing online or digital learning material is a demanding task for teachers. This is even more the case when…
Suzie Hsu, Jay Huenemann, Vishwesh Kulkarni, Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro + 5 more
New technologies in DNA synthesis and assembly give genetic engineers complete freedom in genetic design, where virtually any plasmid DNA sequence can be created efficiently and economically. Learning how to design, construct, and test new DNA sequences is a critical skill for researchers in molecular biology and…
Zahid Hossain, Engin Bumbacher, Alison Brauneis, Monica Diaz + 3 more
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and other national frameworks are calling for much more sophisticated approaches to STEM education, centered around the integration of complex experimentation (including real labs, not just simulations), data collection and analysis, modeling, and data-driven argumentation…
Locke Davenport Huyer, Neal I. Callaghan, Sara Dicks, Edward Scherer + 3 more
The multi-disciplinary nature of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) careers often renders difficulty for high school students navigating from classroom knowledge to post-secondary pursuits. Discrepancies between the knowledge-based high school learning approach and the experiential approach of…
San-gen Hu, Wan-ying Wang, Xiao-Xia Wang, Ying-Mei Yin
1## Introduction With the development of society and the progress of science and technology, universities education is increasingly paying attention to cultivating students’ innovative thinking and problem-solving abilities (). Traditional teaching methods are no longer able to meet the needs of students. Therefore…
B. Cai, Lindsay Mainhood, Ryan Groome, Cory Laverty + 1 more
We investigated physics students' learning experience and behaviour in a second-year laboratory by analyzing transcribed audio recordings of laboratory sessions. One student group was given both a problem and procedure and asked to analyze and explain their results. Another was provided with only the problem and asked…
Nicholas J. Palmisano, Maryam A. Azmi, Taylor N. Medwig-Kinney, Frances E. Q. Moore + 4 more
Scientific research experiences are beneficial to students allowing them to gain laboratory and problem-solving skills, as well as foundational research skills in a team-based setting. We designed a laboratory module to provide a guided research experience to stimulate curiosity, introduce students to experimental…
Ah Jung Jeon, David Kellogg, Mohammed Asif Khan, Greg Tucker-Kellogg
Laboratory pedagogy is moving away from step-by-step instructions and toward inquiry-based learning (IBL), but only now developing methods for integrating inquiry-based writing (IBW) practices into the laboratory course. Based on an earlier proposal (Science 332:919 (2011)), we designed and implemented an IBW sequence…
Tanya Evans, Heiko Dietrich
In the last decade, major efforts have been made to promote inquiry-based mathematics learning at the tertiary level. The Inquiry-Based Mathematics Education (IBME) movement has gained strong momentum among some mathematicians, attracting substantial funding, including from some US government agencies. This resulted in…
Rania Abdelghani, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Edith Law, Catherine de Vulpillières + 1 more
'Catherine de Vulpillières' 'Hélène Sauzéon'] Curiosity is an important factor that favors independent and individualized learning in children. Research suggests that it is also a competence that can be fostered by training specific metacognitive skills and information-searching behaviors. In this light, we develop a…
Mehdi Alaimi, Edith Law, Kevin D. Pantasdo, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer + 1 more
'Hélène Sauzéon'] Question asking is an important tool for constructing academic knowledge, and a self-reinforcing driver of curiosity. However, research has found that question asking is infrequent in the classroom and children's questions are often superficial, lacking deep reasoning. In this work, we developed a…
Wang Zhong, Zhang Yi, Jiang Yi
Inspired by a sample lesson, this paper studies and discusses children’s preferences in learning scientific concepts. In a “Dissolution” lesson, one of the students took the demonstration experiment of “carmine dissolves in Water” demonstrated by the teacher as the prototype to judge whether a new phenomenon belongs to…
Robin Samuelsson
Significant developments have been made to our understanding of how children learn, putting essential pieces to the puzzle of what it means to be human. Theories of learning are, however, headed in diverging directions, and this perspective paper argues that this dispersion can recapitulate recurring schisms in…
Jamie J. Jirout, Sharon Zumbrunn, Natalie S. Evans, Virginia E. Vitiello
'Virginia E. Vitiello'] Curiosity is widely acknowledged as a crucial aspect of children’s development and as an important part of the learning process, with prior research showing associations between curiosity and achievement. Despite this evidence, there is little research on the development of curiosity or on…
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The Socratic method, grounded in iterative questioning and critical dialogue, offers a compelling framework for leveraging large language models (LLMs) to advance scientific reasoning and discovery in chemistry and materials science. In this paper, we explore how Socratic principles can be integrated into prompt…
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In philosophy and science, a first principle is a basic proposition or assumption that cannot be deduced from any other proposition or assumption. Ancient Greek philosophy Aristotle defined the first principle as “the first basis from which a thing is known.” First principles thinking (or reasoning from first…
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Machine olfaction—the artificial replication of the sense of smell—faces significant challenges due to the absence of large, standardized training datasets. Unlike vision, language, and audio models, which benefit from extensive corpora such as ImageNet, GLUE, and AudioSet, olfaction lacks scaled equivalents and…
Reema Ajmera, Dinesh Kumar Dharamdasani
- As IT grows the impact of new technology reflects in more or less every field. Education also gets new dimensions with the advancement in IT sector. Nowadays education is not limited to books and black boards only it gets a new way i.e. electronic media. Although with e-learning, the education having broader…
Timothy Gould
This study examined factors influencing student confidence and their perception of learning in the context of undergraduate chemistry and biochemistry courses. Anonymous online surveys were used to measure the extent to which small group work influenced student confidence in solving problems compared to working…
Yannick Ureel, Maarten R. Dobbelaere, Yi Ouyang, Kevin De Ras + 3 more
By combining machine learning with design of experiments, so-called active machine learning, more efficient and cheaper research can be conducted. Machine learning algorithms are more flexible, and are better at investigating the processes spanning all length scales of chemical engineering. While the active machine…
Etinosa Osaro, Yamil Colón
The application of machine learning (ML) techniques in materials science has revolutionized the pace and scope of materials research and design. In the case of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), a promising class of materials due to their tunable properties and versatile applications in gas adsorption and separation, ML…