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Olakanmi, E. O.; Doyoyo, M. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2014
This paper explores the effectiveness of using "structured examples in concert with prompting reflective questions" to address misconceptions held by mechanical engineering students about thermodynamic principles by employing pre-test and post-test design, a structured questionnaire, lecture room observation, and participants'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Engineering, Engineering Education, Misconceptions
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Ambusaidi, Abdullah; Boyes, Edward; Stanisstreet, Martin; Taylor, Neil – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2012
A 44-item questionnaire was designed to determine students' views about how useful various "specific" actions might be in helping to reduce global warming, their willingness to undertake these various actions and the extent to which these two might be related. The instrument was administered to students in Grades 6 to 12 (N = 1532) from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Climate, Environmental Education, Environmental Standards
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Jones, Sherry Everett; Smith, Alisa M.; Wheeler, Lani S.; McManus, Tim – Journal of School Health, 2010
Background: To determine whether schools with a formal indoor air quality management program were more likely than schools without a formal program to have policies and practices that promote superior indoor air quality. Methods: This study analyzed school-level data from the 2006 School Health Policies and Programs Study, a national study of…
Descriptors: Health Programs, Climate Control, Ventilation, School Health Services