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Kawasaki, Keiko; Herrenkohl, Leslie Rupert; Yeary, Sherry A. – International Journal of Science Education, 2004
The purpose of this paper is to carefully examine the evolution of students' theory building and modeling, critical components of scientific epistemologies, over a unit of study on sinking and floating in one third/fourth grade classroom. The study described in this paper follows in the tradition of Design Experiments (Brown 1992, Collins 1990)…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Science Instruction, Elementary School Science, Scientific Principles
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Youngman, M. B. – Educational Studies, 1979
Discusses a study to compare the performances of different item analysis procedures by using five scales covering intellectual and attitudinal domains. Results are presented. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Cognitive Objectives, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education
Hotchkiss, Lawrence – 1979
This document was prepared in connection with a three-year longitudinal study of career expectations of high school students conducted to explain scientifically the process by which youth form career expectations, e.g., educational, occupational, and income expectations. Divided into six chapters, this document contains a theoretical rationale for…
Descriptors: Career Development, Concept Formation, Decision Making, Educational Research