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Kopnina, Helen – Education Sciences, 2020
This article will discuss social, environmental, and ecological justice in education for sustainable development (ESD) and Education for Sustainable Development Goals (ESDG). The concept of sustainable development and, by extension, the ESD, places heavy emphasis on the economic and social aspects of sustainability. However, the ESD falls short of…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Environmental Education, Justice, Ecology
Durik, Amanda M.; Matarazzo, Kristina L. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2009
This correlational study examined the relationship between perceived task complexity and task interest for individuals with varying levels of domain knowledge and/or individual interest. Forty-five college student participants (46% women) reported their knowledge and individual interest in biology before learning about the biology of fungus.…
Descriptors: College Students, Biology, Correlation, Task Analysis
Schussler, Elisabeth; Winslow, Jeff – Science and Children, 2007
Effective instruction requires continual assessment of student understanding to identify and redirect misconceptions. This is particularly important when dealing with topics that seem straightforward to the teacher but may go beyond the personal experience of many students, such as the life cycle of flowering plants. Life cycles are a core topic…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Plants (Botany), Botany, Grade 4
Irani, Tracy; Wilson, Sandra B.; Roberts, Grady; Rhoades, Emily B – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2009
Distance education has created new challenges with respect to the course evaluation process. This study aimed to determine if the adopted Telecourse Evaluation Questionnaire (TEQ) could be used to effectively evaluate a course developed for multisite distance delivery and taught by a team of instructors. It utilized a pretest and posttest…
Descriptors: Plants (Botany), College Students, Distance Education, Course Evaluation
Cottrell, Tom R. – American Biology Teacher, 2004
There are a number of ways to capture student interest and improve student ability to understand complex phenomena. Without attempting any systematic assessment of the improvement in student learning the analogies, conversations with students lead to believe that techniques are a valuable tool in the botanist's toolbox.
Descriptors: Student Interests, Academic Ability, Student Attitudes, Plants (Botany)
Coley, John D.; Hayes, Brett; Lawson, Christopher; Moloney, Michelle – Cognition, 2004
Previous research (e.g. "Cognition" 64 (1997) 73) suggests that the privileged level for inductive inference in a folk biological conceptual hierarchy does not correspond to the ''basic'' level (i.e. the level at which concepts are both informative and distinct). To further explore inductive inference within conceptual hierarchies, we examine…
Descriptors: Inferences, Logical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Schemata (Cognition)
DiEnno, Cara Marie; Hilton, Sunita C. – Journal of Environmental Education, 2005
The authors applied constructivist learning theory to environmental education to explore knowledge gains, student attitudes, and engagement among high school students exposed to a week-long unit on nonnative plant species. The authors compared constructivist and traditional teaching methods. Each class was given a pretest and a posttest. The…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Environmental Education, Plants (Botany)