Project Details
Projekt
Model-based learning and science instruction: Establishing science instructional approaches using scientific, pre-scientific and students` alternative models
Applicant
Dr. Shu-Chiu Liu
Subject Area
General and Domain-Specific Teaching and Learning
Term
from 2005 to 2007
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 5452805
The research project is aimed at improving school science instruction by using models based on a theory of model-based teaching and learning, derived from Clement¿s (2000) theoretical framework. This theory contains a continuous stages of learning process from students¿ alternative models (or preconseptions), through intermediate models to targeted scientific models in the classroom. The research takes the position that pre-scientific models can be transferred into the use as intermediate models in helping students learn science. Thus, there are three elements that the research project is to investigate and integrate: students¿ alternative models, pre-scientific models and targeted scientific models. The research highlights the fundamental, yet abstract and difficult, physical concepts in the domain of thermodynamics, such as heat and temperature. Moreover, it seeks to bring in the cultural dimension by collecting date in two cultural contexts, Taiwan and Germany. It is argued that this may help us gain insight into the diverse ideas that people hold in different times and places and in turn provide us information of alternative perspektives and approaches concerning a specific issue or problem.
DFG Programme
Research Fellowships
