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Johann Chevalère, Loreleï Cazenave, Mickaël Berthon, Ruben Martinez + 9 more
'Vincent Mazenod' 'Marie-Claude Borion' 'Delphine Pailler' 'Nicolas Rocher' 'Rémi Cadet' 'Catherine Lenne' 'Norbert Maïonchi-Pino' 'Pascal Huguet' 'Gwo-Jen Hwang'] The Covid-19 pandemic has led millions of students worldwide to intensify their use of digital education. This massive change is not reflected by the scant…
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…
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…
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…
Sebastiano Cantalupo
I describe the design and implementation of a series of university MSc courses in Switzerland and in Italy on the topic of "Cosmic Structure Formation" whose goal has been to provide to the students a formative experience using interwoven research practice and fundamental scientific content. The course educational…
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…
Ashebir Mekonnen Chengere, Beyene Bobo Dobo, Samuel Assefa Zinabu, Kedir Woliy Jilo
Attitude plays a vital role in achieving modern science education goals by enhancing students’ conceptual understanding, motivation, academic performance, interest, and engagement in scientific inquiry. However, in many Ethiopian schools, attitudes toward science are often overlooked, and traditional teacher-centered…
Chun Chu, Jessica L. Dewey, Weiwei Zheng
Chemistry Laboratory Technique Course using Scaffolded, Inquiry-Based Laboratories and Project-Based Learning Authors: ['Chun Chu' 'Jessica L. Dewey' 'Weiwei Zheng'] To enhance students’ learning and help them understand the whole picture of the field of inorganic chemistry, an inorganic laboratory technique course was…
Daniel P. Griffin, Maria Ortega, Chasity B. O’Malley
Purpose Problem-based learning (PBL) is an established learning method in medical education that uses small groups to address a “problem” in the form of a patient’s medical condition. Compared to lectures, there is compelling evidence that PBL performs better in numerous areas including student basic knowledge and…
Iván Sanchéz Milara, Marta Cortés
The term STEM refers to teaching and learning in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. It is a very broad concept that includes education across all grade levels: starting from kindergarten and finishing in post-doctorate studies. STEM education is also transversal: is applied in formal (e.g.…
Danny Doucette, Russell Clark, Chandralekha Singh
There is some evidence that conceptual inquiry-based introductory physics lab curricula, such as RealTime Physics, may improve students' understanding of physics concepts. Thus, these curricula may be attractive for instructors who seek to transform their physics labs to improve student learning. However, the impact of…
Chloé Desvaux, Rania Abdelghani, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Hélène Sauzéon
This chapter examines the relationship between curiosity and metacognition as critical drivers of autonomous and self-regulated learning. We synthesize recent research to propose a unified framework integrating behavioral, computational, and psychoeducational dimensions, arguing that curiosity, i.e. the intrinsic drive…
B. B. Goldberg, D. Bruff, R. Greenler, K. Barnicle + 9 more
We report on a five-year initiative that has prepared thousands of future STEM faculty around the world to adopt evidence-based instructional practices by participating in two massive open online courses (MOOCs) and facilitated in-person learning communities. This novel combination of asynchronous online and…
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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…
Stephan Lautenschlager
Over the past few decades, citizen science has proven to be a valuable tool for research projects by involving the public in large-scale data collection. This collaboration between researchers and volunteers has been shown to be highly beneficial, allowing for efficient data collection in shorter time frames than…
Alexander Muacevic, John R Adler, Tilak Joshi, Pravash Budhathoki + 4 more
'Anurag Adhikari' 'Ayusha Poudel' 'Sumit Raut' 'Dhan B Shrestha'] Introduced in the 1970s to meet the academic needs of a growing number of students with relatively stagnant faculty, team-based learning (TBL) has revolutionized the modern classroom structure. Contrary to the traditional didactic model where the teacher…
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As the utilization of artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI (GenAI) is expanding in the educational field, presenting significant implications for STEM disciplines, it is bringing opportunities to enhance how chemistry and chemical engineering are taught and learned. This perspective critically explores the…
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…
Xinjian Cen, Rachel J. Lee, Christopher Contreras, Melinda T. Owens + 1 more
Active learning, including student thinking and discussion in class, has been shown to increase student learning gains. However, it is less clear how variations in how instructors implement active learning affect student gains. Our study aims to investigate the extent to which the time spent on individual episodes of…
Mustafa Demir, Sean M. Leahy, Punya Mishra, Chun Kit Chen + 1 more
Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be easily integrated into virtual education to drive adaptive instruction and real-time constructive feedback to students, offering a possible conduit for fostering discovery curiosity in learners. This study examines and characterizes Human-AI-Teaming (HAT) coordination dynamics to…
Mallory A. Jackson, Hongjiao Liu, Sungmin Moon, Jennifer H. Doherty + 1 more
Myriad studies support the claim that active learning improves student academic performance in STEM, yet lecture remains the dominant form of instruction. Faculty offer multiple reasons for not using active learning with many expressing confusion as to what active learning is. Contributing to that confusion is the fact…
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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…
Jeff Guo, Vendy Fialková, Juan Diego Arango, Christian Margreitter + 4 more
Reinforcement learning (RL) is a powerful paradigm that has gained popularity across multiple domains. However, applying RL may come at a cost of multiple interactions between the agent and the environment. This cost can be especially pronounced when the single feedback from the environment is slow or computationally…
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…