Cooperative learning (CL) is a well documented pedagogical practice that promotes
academic achievement and socialization, yet many teachers struggle with implementing it in …

Inquiry has been a prominent theme of science curriculum improvement efforts ever since
the post-Sputnik era NSF-funded science education endeavors appeared in the headlines of …

The study investigated the effects of cooperative learning on junior high school students who
worked in structured or unstructured cooperative groups. Two hundred and twenty-three …

The purpose of this research was to explore students' problem-solving skills through inquiry-
based learning with PhET simulation, focussed on direct current electricity matter. The …

Many primary teachers face challenges in teaching inquiry science, often because they
believe that they do not have the content knowledge or pedagogical skills to do so. This is a …

Although the educational potential of student questions is widely acknowledged, primary
school teachers need support to guide them to become effective for learning the curriculum …

Teaching children to ask and answer questions is critically important if they are to engage in
reasoned argumentation, problem‐solving and learning. This study describes how teachers …

Teaching children to ask and answer questions is critically important if they are to learn to
talk and reason effectively together, particularly during inquiry-based science where they are …

In higher education, there is a challenge to gain the full benefit of the potentials of learning
technology for collaborative knowledge advancement and for scaffolding practices of …

What kind of developmental potential is present in elementary schoolchildren but hindered
by the traditional type of education? Half a century ago Daniel El'konin and Vasili Davydov …