The construction and evaluation of scientific models, together with the iterative modification of these models in response to evidence, constitute paradigmatic scientific practices. If inquiry instruction is to engage students in authentic scientific reasoning, these practices need to become routine in the science curriculum. This paper reports on some of the difficulties middle-school students...

the main issues in any society are teaching and learning and main elements of this story are the teacher and the learner. there are different psychology schools in which any of them in turn, have taken many extensive researches about behavior, and facts and theories of learning have been studied from a particular perspective. rationalism asserts that the human intellect has the highest energy a...

To adapt the demands for cultivating the target of highly-quality talents in the 21st century, the students' scientific thinking ability and innovation ability should be cultivated in the teaching. Chemistry is based on experiments, and the experiments play an important role in inquiring knowledge, mastering studying methods of science, experiencing studying process and developing the students'...

The discovery or re-construction of scientific explanations and understanding based on experience is a complex process, for which school learning often uses shortcuts. Based on the example of analyzing real seismic measurements, we propose a computer-facilitated collaborative learning scenario, which meets many of the requirements for authentic learning. The implementation of the learning envir...

Learning and memory are inextricably intertwined. The capacity for learning presupposes an ability to retain the knowledge acquired through experience, while memory stores the background knowledge against which new learning takes place. During the dark years of radical behaviorism, when the concept of memory was deemed too mentalistic to be a proper subject of scientific study, research on huma...

A novel program called Science Alive! was developed by undergraduate faculty members, K-12 school teachers, and undergraduate students to enrich science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) literacy at community schools located near the university. The ultimate goal of the program is to bolster the scientific knowledge and appreciation of local area students and community members an...

Groupware for learning may differ from that for other software in a crucial way: optimizing software support for subtasks can degrade overall collaborative learning. This point is illustrated in the context of a software environment for supporting student’s learning to engage in critical discussion of competing scientific theories. Our experience suggests that in applications where a nontrivial...

Introduction. The prime role of the medical teacher of the future will be to provide his or her students with learning opportunity and to direct them to the proper resources rather than to teach, so the more presence of scientific board members in clinical wards can lead us to this goal. At this study we answer to this question that How will the quality of clinical education improve with increa...