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Dimitris Panagou; Christina E. Kostara; Georgios Stylos; Konstantinos T. Kotsis – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2024
Throughout the years, scientific research has increasingly aimed to identify students' misconceptions and alternative views regarding fundamental concepts and principles of chemistry. Valuable international bibliographic information was created, including details on teaching density and gaining respondent acceptance. The study aimed to explore…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Students, Medical Education, Misconceptions
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Ioannis, Berdousis; Maria, Kordaki – Education and Information Technologies, 2019
The study of gender differences in Computer Science (CS) has captured the attention of many researchers around the world. Over time, research has revealed that negative stereotypes and 'myths' about the cognitive skills, academic abilities and interests of females in CS do exist, deterring females from entering the field. Thus, this study aims to…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Gender Differences, Stereotypes, Misconceptions
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Stylos, Georgios; Sargioti, Aikaterini; Mavridis, Dimitrios; Kotsis, Konstantinos T. – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
Although students are expected to finish school having a solid understanding of scientific concepts, they graduate from universities maintaining their former misconceptions in several fields, like physics. This study aims at validating the Thermal Concept Evaluation (TCE) test for university student's misconceptions of thermal concepts in everyday…
Descriptors: Heat, Concept Formation, Misconceptions, Scientific Literacy
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Marcaletti, Francesco; Iñiguez Berrozpe, Tatiana; Koutra, Kleio – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2018
Education is the main vehicle for empowering adults, and can contribute to community wellbeing. However, regarding mature adults (MAs) (over 45 years old), age has been identified in various studies as a significant barrier to accessing educational activities. This paper focuses on MAs' motivations to learn through an exploratory survey undertaken…
Descriptors: Barriers, Older Adults, Adults, Foreign Countries
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Lampridis, Efthymios – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2015
The present study investigates stereotypical beliefs about cyber bullying in terms of myths, a well applied concept in the study of beliefs concerning sexual aggression. The level of acceptance of cyber bullying myths (low vs. high) and the relation of myth acceptance to a number of demographic variables such as gender, field of studies, frequency…
Descriptors: Stereotypes, Internet, Bullying, Beliefs
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Papastergiou, M. – Computers & Education, 2008
This study investigated Greek high school students' intentions and motivation towards and against pursuing academic studies in Computer Science (CS), the influence of the family and the scholastic environment on students' career choices, students' perceptions of CS and the Information Technology (IT) profession as well as students' attendance at…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Females, Self Efficacy, Student Motivation