Considerations Related to the Efficiency of Sciences Lessons Based on IBSE Strategy

Abstract

Our study, conducted in relation to the concrete results of an investigative approach, aims to highlight the efficiency of Sciences lessons (Chemistry, Physics, Biology) designed in the PROFILES -Education through Science training program, lessons focused on instruction through scientific investigation (IBSE), a teaching strategy based on experimentation, questioning, discovery, problem solving, group work, likely to provide relevant learning.

Software-assisted study of a non-linear polymerization reactor control by IBSE approach

“…The need for a more motivational school science that stimulates students' interest in science and science careers has been in fact iterated in many reports 6,7,8,9,10,11,12 . In recently published literature Sotáková et al 13 identified the effect of revising the thematic unit "Changes in Chemical Reactions" using IBSE method; Conceição et al 14 proposed a lesson study as a trigger for preservice physics and chemistry teachers; Fernandes et al 15 presented an analysis of inquiry-based science education and the possibility of employing Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as a supporting tool when performing inquiry activities in science teaching; a pragmatic use of motivational theory in science to enrich IBSE teaching practices was proposed by Andersen and Krogh 16 ; Checchetti 17 combined CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) with IBSE (Inquiry Based Science Education) methodology to create a lesson on spectroscopy; Ellwood and Abrams 18 investigated how student social interactions within two approaches to an inquiry-based science curriculum could be related to student motivation and achievement outcomes; Tavares et al 19 considered advantages of science education outdoors through IBSE methodology; Dovigo and Rocco 20 evaluated European Inquiry-Based Education Projects through the Lens of Evaluation Capacity Building; Drăghicescu et al 21 highlighted the effectiveness of Science (Chemistry, Physics, Biology) lessons designed with IBSE approach; Trna 22 found which component of IBSE are suitable for gifted students in science and proposed a method to motivate science teachers to use science experiments 6 , Nurshamshida et al 23 examined how meaningful science learning could be achieved via the introduction of an inquiry-based Science approach in Chemistry teaching.…”