scholarly journals Evaluation of a High School Science Fair Program for promoting Successful Inquiry-based Learning

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Betts
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
School Science ◽  
High School Science ◽  
Science Fair ◽  
Inquiry Based Learning

Motivating Inquiry-Based Learning Through a Combination of Physical and Virtual Computer-Based Laboratory Experiments in High School Science

2018 ◽  
pp. 704-730
Author(s):  
Niwat Srisawasdi
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Inquiry Learning ◽  
School Science ◽  
Science Lesson ◽  
High School Science ◽  
Inquiry Based Learning ◽  
The Social ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Science Motivation ◽  
Virtual Computer

This chapter presents research about a combination of physical experimentation (PE) and virtual experimentation (VE) in computer-based inquiry learning as an instructional value to students' affective domain. For this study, the author has developed a science lesson for promoting interactive inquiry learning, and the researcher investigated whether orchestrating PE and VE in sequential learning affect students' learning perception and science motivation. To evaluate the lesson, questionnaires were used to examine how students perceived the lesson and their perceptions about how the lesson promotes science motivation. The results indicated students' positive perceptions that experiencing the lesson supported cognitive performance, emotional practice, and the social inquiry process. In addition, exposure to the lesson improved students' science motivation for both females and males. This highlights that the combination is an effective way to enhance the effectiveness of high school science learning.

Motivating Inquiry-Based Learning Through a Combination of Physical and Virtual Computer-Based Laboratory Experiments in High School Science

2015 ◽  
pp. 108-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niwat Srisawasdi
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Inquiry Learning ◽  
School Science ◽  
Science Lesson ◽  
High School Science ◽  
Inquiry Based Learning ◽  
The Social ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Science Motivation ◽  
Virtual Computer

This chapter presents research about a combination of physical experimentation (PE) and virtual experimentation (VE) in computer-based inquiry learning as an instructional value to students' affective domain. For this study, the author has developed a science lesson for promoting interactive inquiry learning, and the researcher investigated whether orchestrating PE and VE in sequential learning affect students' learning perception and science motivation. To evaluate the lesson, questionnaires were used to examine how students perceived the lesson and their perceptions about how the lesson promotes science motivation. The results indicated students' positive perceptions that experiencing the lesson supported cognitive performance, emotional practice, and the social inquiry process. In addition, exposure to the lesson improved students' science motivation for both females and males. This highlights that the combination is an effective way to enhance the effectiveness of high school science learning.

scholarly journals High school science fair: Experiences of two groups of undergraduate bioscience students

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. e0252627
Author(s):  
Frederick Grinnell ◽  
Simon Dalley ◽  
Joan Reisch
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Science Research ◽  
School Science ◽  
Medical Institute ◽  
High School Science ◽  
Science Fair ◽  
School Students ◽  
Science Fairs

Science fairs offer potential opportunities for students to learn first-hand about the practices of science. Over the past six years we have been carrying out voluntary and anonymous surveys with regional and national groups of high school and post high school students to learn about their high school science fair experiences regarding help received, obstacles encountered, and opinions about the value and impact of science fair. Understanding what students think about science fairs will help educators make science fairs more effective learning opportunities. In this paper, we focus on the findings with two national groups of post high school students–undergraduate research fellows (SURF students) who did research at UT Southwestern Medical Center during 2014–2019 and undergraduates biology students attending the 2019 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Science Education Alliance (SEA) summer symposium. About 25% of the students who completed surveys indicated that they had participated in high school science fair, but more than half attended high schools where science fairs were unavailable. Effectively, 6 out of every 10 students participated in science fair if available. Students who could have participated in high school science fair but chose not to do so identified not enough time and coming up with their project idea as major reasons why not. About half the SURF students favored requiring non-competitive science fair regardless whether they themselves had participated in science fair. On the other hand, less than 1 in 5 thought that competitive science fair should be required. Introduction to the scientific process and general learning were mentioned most frequently as the reasons to require non-competitive science fair; these reasons were mentioned rarely in connection with competitive science fair. Unlike the national cohort of high school students we surveyed previously, who mostly did science fair in 9th and 10th grades, SURF students participated in science fair throughout high school and were twice as likely as high school students to have carried out science fair more than once. In conclusion, our findings suggest that participation of the undergraduate bioscience majors in high school science fairs occurs far more frequently than recognized previously and provide insights into how these successful college students (gauged by the fact that they are doing summer science research) view science fairs. The findings emphasize further the importance of incentivizing rather than requiring science fair participation, especially in 9th and 10th grades, and the potential value of developing non-competitive science fairs.

High School Science Fair Survey

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick Grinnell ◽  
Simon Dalley ◽  
Joan Reisch
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
School Science ◽  
High School Science ◽  
Science Fair

The Nanoscience and Engineering High School Research Internship program at the University of Alabama

2007 ◽  
Vol 1046 ◽  
Author(s):  
David E. Nikles ◽  
Gregory B. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Materials Science ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
School Science ◽  
High School Science ◽  
Science Fair ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
Senior Year ◽  
School Students

AbstractThe Center for Materials for Information Technology provides a ten-week summer research experience in nanoscience and engineering for high school students. The students were between their junior and senior year or their sophomore and junior year and were interested in a career in scientific research. Each student had their own research project within the general theme of metal alloy nanoparticles. They were trained in safe laboratory practice and could prepare their own particles independently. Each used x-ray diffraction and SEM EDX to characterize the structure of their nanoparticles. They also identified potential applications for their particles such as magnetic recording, fuel cell catalysis and cancer therapy. Many of the students accomplished enough research to submit competitive entries to regional and national high school science fairs. Two were semi-finalists in the Siemens-Westinghouse Competition. Another won the West Alabama Science Fair and competed in the Intel International Science Fair. This program provided the high school students with a vision for the breadth and excitement of doing basic research in materials science.

scholarly journals High school science fair: Student opinions regarding whether participation should be required or optional and why

PLoS ONE ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. e0202320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick Grinnell ◽  
Simon Dalley ◽  
Karen Shepherd ◽  
Joan Reisch
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
School Science ◽  
High School Science ◽  
Science Fair ◽  
Student Opinions

Stimulate High School Science Fair Participation by Connecting with a Nearby College

2000 ◽  
Vol 77 (5) ◽  
pp. 608 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Ellen DeClue ◽  
Kevin Johnson ◽  
Howard Hendrickson ◽  
Pamela Keck
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
School Science ◽  
High School Science ◽  
Science Fair
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