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Attitude towards the Discipline of Physics-Chemistry and School Achievement: Revisiting Factor Structure to Assess Gender Differences in Portuguese High-School Students
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Vilia, Paulo; Candeias, Adelinda A. – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
The importance of attitudes and other variables of the affective domain in education is acknowledged for a long time. In this study, we used an attitude questionnaire to survey 498 Portuguese 9th-grade students to determine the predictive ability of the attitudes towards the discipline of Physics-chemistry on school achievement. Possible gender…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Student Attitudes, Factor Structure, High School Students
The Exclusive Language of Science? Comparing Knowledge Gains and Motivation in English-Bilingual Biology Lessons between Non-Selected and Preselected Classes
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Meyerhöffer, Nina; Dreesmann, Daniel C. – International Journal of Science Education, 2019
The dominant role of English as the global language of science entails a requirement for science teachers to equip their non-native English-speaking students with receptive and productive language skills for communication in scientific contexts. Although science courses with English elements are part of some schools' bilingual programmes, they are…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Bilingual Education, Course Content