Search results for author:"Jonathan Osborne"
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New Technology and Newtonian Physics
Jonathan Osborne
Physics Education Vol. 22, No. 6 (1987) pp. 360–64
Points out two areas of difficulty in teaching Newtonian dynamics. Describes several alternatives to physics learning using new technology. Details the use of the LOGO computer language in teaching simple Newtonian environments. Suggests the...
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Exploring Young Students' Collaborative Argumentation within a Socioscientific Issue
Maria Evagorou; Jonathan Osborne
Journal of Research in Science Teaching Vol. 50, No. 2 (February 2013) pp. 209–237
Argumentation has been the emphasis of many studies during the last decade. However, previous studies have not identified why some students are more successful than others, and what are students' characteristics of argumentation, especially when...
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Supporting Argumentation through Students' Questions: Case Studies in Science Classrooms
Christine Chin; Jonathan Osborne
Journal of the Learning Sciences Vol. 19, No. 2 (2010) pp. 230–284
This study explores how student-generated questions can support argumentation in science. Students were asked to discuss which of two graphs showing the change in temperature with time when ice is heated to steam was correct. Four classes of...
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"Should We Kill the Grey Squirrels?" A Study Exploring Students' Justifications and Decision-Making
Maria Evagorou; Maria Pilar Jimenez-Aleixandre; Jonathan Osborne
International Journal of Science Education Vol. 34, No. 3 (2012) pp. 401–428
A problem that is still unexplored in the field of socioscientific issues (SSI) and that was explored in this study is how different students decide upon a SSI they are discussing, how their justifications change during the instruction and how they...