The Role of the Laboratory in Science Teaching: Neglected Aspects of Research

Hofstein, Avi; Lunetta, Vincent N.

doi:10.2307/1170311

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“…There was no significant difference between the control group and the experimental group in the posttest results of AT; students in each group improved their declarative and procedural knowledge throughout the course. This result is consistent with the literature that says that that laboratory instruction contributes to the acquisition of scientific knowledge (Hofstein & Lunetta, 1982;Trowbridge & Bybee, 1990;Jegede & Taylor, 1995).…”

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“…Furner & Kumar (2007) advocate that teachers should be able to incorporate more problem solving/inquiry approaches to their teaching. Hofstein & Lunetta (1982;2004) focused on the development of cognitive and metacognitive skills in inquiry-type laboratories for an effective science instruction. More recently, Mamlok-Naaman & Barnea (2012) highlighted the complexity of using inquiry approaches in science classrooms by comparing to the traditional approaches, and thus the need for teachers to have different kinds of skills, high level of expertise, familiarity, and comfort in teaching it.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Laboratory work has been considered indispensable to learning in science (Hofstein & Lunetta, 1982). Freedman (2001) found that students who had regular laboratory instruction acquired significantly more scientific knowledge than students who had no laboratory instruction.…”

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confidence: 99%

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“…In this case, the work of students in the laboratory has a positive effect on the process of teaching and learning (Leite and Afonso 2002), in which laboratory environment plays a very important role. Teachers of science confirm that the active work of students in the laboratory provides measurable benefits in teaching (Hofstein and Lunetta 1982). Also, educators claim that the teaching of chemistry, which is the Natural Science subject, is most effective when students work in the laboratory having direct contact with matter being converted (Tezcan and Bilgin 2004).…”

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Assessment of Application Technology of Natural User Interfaces in the Creation of a Virtual Chemical Laboratory

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Wolski

2014

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Natural User Interfaces (NUI) are now widely used in electronic devices such as smartphones, tablets and gaming consoles. We have tried to apply this technology in the teaching of chemistry in middle school and high school. A virtual chemical laboratory was developed in which students can simulate the performance of laboratory activities similar to those that they perform in a real laboratory. Kinect sensor was used for the detection and analysis of the student's hand movements, which is an example of NUI. The studies conducted found the effectiveness of educational virtual laboratory. The extent to which the use of a teaching aid increased the students' progress in learning chemistry was examined.The results indicate that the use of NUI creates opportunities to both enhance and improve the quality of the chemistry education. Working in a virtual laboratory using the Kinect interface results in greater emotional involvement and an increased sense of self-efficacy in the laboratory work among students. As a consequence, students are getting higher marks and are more interested in the subject of chemistry.

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“…Since laboratory works have a great importance in having students acquire the objectives targeted in chemistry education, the desired success level can be reached through attaching more importance to laboratory works in the teaching of chemistry lessons. Various studies were made on the contribution of the use of laboratory in chemistry education to teaching (Hofstein & Lunetta, 1982). In order for works performed in chemistry laboratories to achieve their goals, many tools should be used in addition to the selection of laboratory method.…”

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Recognition of the tools used in general chemistry laboratory of science teacher candidates and determination of their levels of knowledge

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2017

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Informal and formal observations have made over many years on General Chemistry Laboratories and it has been determined that the students in the laboratories are in an attitude in which they act like as if they have never seen or used the laboratory equipments before. We believe that our observations should be investigated scientifically based on the evidence. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the science teacher candidates' knowledge and understanding of the chemistry laboratory equipments. 55 teacher candidates who started their first semester in 2016-2017 academic years in Uludag University studying science participated in this study. Teacher candidates were given an open-ended test, in which the names of the laboratory instruments mentioned in the experiments in high school freshman, sophomore and junior year textbooks and were asked whether they know the shape of the instrument, what it is used for, if they have seen it before, and learning of which concept it contributes to. According to the findings, a large majority of prospective teachers graduated without using or seeing these laboratory tools. The obtained data will be explained in this study with the help of the rubric

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The Role of the Laboratory in Science Teaching: Neglected Aspects of Research

Cited by 146 publications

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Creating Metacognitive Awareness in the Lab: Outcomes for Preservice Science Teachers

Creating Metacognitive Awareness in the Lab: Outcomes for Preservice Science Teachers

Assessment of Application Technology of Natural User Interfaces in the Creation of a Virtual Chemical Laboratory

Recognition of the tools used in general chemistry laboratory of science teacher candidates and determination of their levels of knowledge

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