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Klahr, David; Triona, Lara M.; Williams, Cameron – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2007
"Hands-on" activities play an important, but controversial, role in early science education. In this study we attempt to clarify some of the issues surrounding the controversy by calling attention to distinctions between: (a) type of instruction (direct or discovery); (b) type of knowledge to be acquired (domain-general or domain-specific); and…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Grade 8, Teaching Methods, Females
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Aypay, Ahmet; Erdogan, Mehmet; Sozer, Mehmet A. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2007
The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences among schools using student responses in the Trends in Mathematics and Science Study-1999 (TIMSS-99) data. Schools were classified into two groups based on eighth grade students' overall achievement in science. Two different discriminant function analyses were performed to distinguish…
Descriptors: Science Achievement, Projection Equipment, Discriminant Analysis, Foreign Countries