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Does Attainment of Piaget's Formal Operational Level of Cognitive Development Predict Student Understanding of Scientific Models?
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Lahti, Richard Dennis, II. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Knowledge of scientific models and their uses is a concept that has become a key benchmark in many of the science standards of the past 30 years, including the proposed Next Generation Science Standards. Knowledge of models is linked to other important nature of science concepts such as theory change which are also rising in prominence in newer…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Learning Theories, Environmental Education, Science Instruction
Using Technology in Gifted and Talented Education Classrooms: The Teachers' Perspective
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Zimlich, Susan L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
New technologies emerge frequently. Administrators and teachers have to decide which technologies are worthwhile investments of both limited funds and instructional time. Standards from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills and the International Society for Technology in Education encourage educators to teach skills that will help students adapt…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Technology Uses in Education, Teacher Attitudes, Standards
Mastery Learning and Academic Achievement
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Miles, Kent – ProQuest LLC, 2010
During the 2006-2007 school year, 14% of the eighth-grade mathematics students at the study campus failed to meet advancement criteria on the Georgia Criterion Referenced Competency Test (CRCT). The purpose of this quantitative pretest-posttest and control-group design study was to first investigate the effects of a mastery goal approach to…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Achievement Gains, Academic Achievement, Pretests Posttests