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Lawrenz, Frances; Gray, Brian – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1995
Carried out an investigation to identify conceptions of some components of worldview held by science student teachers (n=48) in a South African context. Explores relationships among worldviews, student characteristics, and scientific concepts. Reports that students' conceptions of time and distance were nonmechanistic and psychologically bound and…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Distance, Foreign Countries, Higher Education

Crawley, Frank E.; Coe, Annette S. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1990
Investigated were the determinants of intentions to enroll in a high school science course by middle school earth science students. The impact on intentions of students' attitudes, social pressures, and specific external variables are discussed. (KR)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Achievement, Attitude Measures, Earth Science