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Learning Argumentation Skills through Instruction in Socioscientific Issues: The Effect of Ability Level
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Lin, Shu-Sheng; Mintzes, Joel J. – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2010
This article describes an effort to explore and enhance argumentation skills of Taiwanese grade 6 students through instruction in socioscientific issues. An experienced elementary school teacher was given 8 months of personalized instruction on argumentation skills and socioscientific issues, then subsequently implemented a 17-h classroom unit on…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Multiple Regression Analysis, Grade 6, Academic Ability
Using Multi-Level Analyses to Study the Effectiveness of Science Curriculum Materials
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Rethinam, Vasuki; Pyke, Curtis; Lynch, Sharon – Evaluation and Research in Education, 2008
This paper explores the use of HLM analysis in determining the implementation effects of two science curriculum units on student learning. It also compares HLM results with prior results from ANCOVA analyses. HLM analyses were considered as an alternative to ANCOVA because student data were nested within classrooms. The data for this study are…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Academic Achievement, Effect Size, Grade 7
Evaluation of Achievement in the Indonesian Education System.
Moegiadi; And Others – Evaluation in Education: International Progress, 1979
Multiple regression analysis of 11 home factors and 13 school factors indicated that home accounted for 8.8 percent of the total variance in achievement of sixth grade Indonesian pupils, while school accounted for 6.2 percent. Classroom climate, interpreted as an unmeasured effect of good teaching, accounted for 46 percent of the variance. (CP)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cross Cultural Studies, Curriculum Evaluation, Developing Nations
Effects of Math Anxiety and Perfectionism on Timed versus Untimed Math Testing in Mathematically Gifted Sixth Graders
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Tsui, Joanne M.; Mazzocco, Michele M. M. – Roeper Review, 2006
This study was designed to examine the effects of math anxiety and perfectionism on math performance, under timed testing conditions, among mathematically gifted sixth graders. We found that participants had worse math performance during timed versus untimed testing, but this difference was statistically significant only when the timed condition…
Descriptors: Gifted, Testing, Grade 6, Gender Differences