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Asia-Pacific Forum on Science
Learning and Teaching, Volume 4, Issue 2, Article 12 (Dec., 2003) Man-Tak CHAN and Ping-Wai KWOK Facilitating active learning through a thematic science curriculum
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Asia-Pacific Forum on Science
Learning and Teaching, Volume 4, Issue 2, Article 12 (Dec., 2003) Man-Tak CHAN and Ping-Wai KWOK Facilitating active learning through a thematic science curriculum
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Method
According to Cohen and Manion (1994), the use of case studies could provide useful information on the interpretive and subjective dimensions of educational phenomena. Therefore, data in this project were collected from lesson observations, student interviews, teachers interviews, and a survey on students' learning outcomes and feeling about the lessons. Four teachers and 197 students from six classes participated in this study. Each class spent from fourteen to seventeen 40-minute lessons for the whole theme. The lessons and interviews were videotaped and transcribed. The four teachers teaching these six classes were invited to view their own lessons on which they made reflections during the interviews. To ensure the reliability of the data, the field notes, lesson tapes and interviews were coded by the two authors separately. The first part of the questionnaire survey was set out to assess students' understanding of scientific concepts learnt in the lessons. In the second part of the survey, students were asked to evaluate the effectiveness and their feeling of the learning experiences provided by teaching designs of this project.
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