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Enhancing Learning Using Questions Adjunct to Science Charts.

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Holliday, William G.; Benson, Garth – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1991

Reports a study that examined the generalizability of selective-attention and academic-studying hypotheses to a modified science chart medium. The adjunct questions used in this study were designed to selectively focus students' attention on specific columns in a modified science chart, with the goal of improving student achievement on a test…

Descriptors: Biology, Charts, Comprehension, Educational Research

The Logic of University Students' Misunderstanding of Natural Selection.

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Greene, Edgar D., Jr. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1990

Responses of 322 university sophomores (education majors) on an evolution problem "How could the bat have evolved wings?" are analyzed and classified. Concludes that misunderstandings are logical. (PR)

Descriptors: Comprehension, Education Majors, Educational Research, Evolution

Teacher Awareness of Student Alternate Conceptions about Rotational Motion and Gravity.

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Berg, Terrance; Brouwer, Wytze – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1991

Reports a study involving interviews with 20 physics teachers to determine their awareness of student alternate conceptions in the areas of force and gravity. (PR)

Descriptors: Comprehension, Educational Research, Force, Gravity (Physics)

Reasoning about Logical Propositions and Success in Science.

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Piburn, Michael D. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1990

Found grades in science achieved by tenth-grade general science students correlated with their scores on Propositional Logic Test. The students' ability level was consistently related to the pattern of errors they committed on that measure. Mean scores were lowest on a subtest of ability to use the bicondition and implication, higher on the…

Descriptors: Comprehension, Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Grade 10