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Susan R. Wray – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) demand that science educators shift from traditional to NGSS teaching and learning. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore the change process of shifting from traditional one-dimensional teaching to NGSS three-dimensional teaching and learning. A survey was sent to all science…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Science Education, Academic Standards, Science Instruction
Krystal Dawn Grieger – ProQuest LLC, 2024
There has been a growing emphasis on integrating green and sustainable chemistry (GSC) into the curriculum. Unfortunately, there is yet to be a nationwide, uniform decision of which aspects should be included or how, leaving individual instructors or institutions to decide whether--and how--to address GSC knowledge. Furthermore, faculty nationwide…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Study, Organic Chemistry
Ashlee Penn Buchanan – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The study aimed to investigate how the knowledge, understanding and skills of secondary science teachers in SC relate to their capacity to deliberately integrate World Class Skills (WCS) into their science classroom instruction through effective planning and pedagogical choices. The study employs the Partnership for 21 Century Learning framework…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Science Teachers, Science Curriculum, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Caroline Hadley Long – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Science education literature calls for students' participation in science practices through ongoing collective sensemaking built on coherence from the student perspective. However, few studies systematically consider students' point of view and there is little guidance for how teachers can lead the class to co-construct specified learning goals…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Science Instruction, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students
Brian Park – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Over the years, the evolution of science along with technology, engineering, and mathematics has been noticeably evident while science education, on the other hand, has shown little development. The research study aimed to investigate future change initiative implementation in secondary science curricula. In addition, the purpose of the research…
Descriptors: STEM Education, College Students, Student Attitudes, Program Effectiveness
Karrie A. Wikman – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The overarching aim of this research was to ultimately support global resiliency through science education, preparing citizens to laudably negotiate the contentious socio-cultural science-and technology-based issues of modern times. Correspondingly, this mixed methods study aimed to move a large, diverse school district toward school environments…
Descriptors: Science Education, School Districts, Educational Environment, Context Effect
Ende, Alayla – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this teacher-practitioner research study was to examine how elementary teacher candidates engaged in sensemaking about the learning process within the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and to further examine how they engaged in sensemaking about NGSS teaching and curriculum development. Interviews and course artifacts from 14…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Methods Courses, Academic Standards, Preservice Teachers
Sinead Carroll Brien – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The reasons particular people enjoy science, pursue science, and see themselves as science people, or not, are diverse and complex (Brickhouse, et al., 2000). The ways that teachers present science and value particular ways of knowing and doing in the classroom can influence which students see themselves as science people (Carlone et al, 2011).…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Social Justice
Heather M. Gerber – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to conduct a critical text analysis of Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) policy documents and the resources teachers have access to help them implement these standards into their classroom. NGSS outlines the skills and content needed for students to become proficient in STEM fields. These standards increase the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Teachers, Standards, Teaching Methods
Nicole C. Kymissis – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this interpretative phenomenological analysis study was to understand the perspectives of Massachusetts biology teachers and discover if the 2016 changes to the Massachusetts Science, Technology, and Engineering (STE) Curriculum Frameworks impacted their instructional practices and pedagogy. Concentrating on the consequences of…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Biology, Educational Policy, Science Teachers
Lori Pierce Boyd – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The history of education in the United States has been a contentious one. This holds true for science education in Georgia. Throughout history, there has been much debate on what should be taught and how it should be taught. There have been many influences on education including politics, economics, religion, and immigration. This multi-method…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Science Education, Science Curriculum, Academic Standards
William Edward Falkner – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The goals of nonmajor science education are to improve scientific literacy and produce pro-science attitudes. Together, these goals are expected to improve an individual's ability to make evidence-based decisions based on newer understandings of the natural world as well as developing technologies. In a post-COVID-19 world, public understanding of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Nonmajors, Biology, Undergraduate Students
Rashida Marshay Robinson – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study explores how an afterschool science program for girls that uses a curriculum written by female scientists/science educators and highlights the contributions of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields affects girls' perception of scientists, confidence in their science skills, belief in their ability to…
Descriptors: Females, Gender Issues, Inclusion, Student Experience
McCrevan, Jason – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Elementary schools face pressures to substantially increase student achievement in all subjects with limited time in the school day. In particular, science struggles to gain instructional momentum due to many internal and external factors. The school district of Wynne (pseudonym), located within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, has generational…
Descriptors: Science Education, Educational Policy, STEM Education, Science Instruction
Cory Kohn – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The creation and evaluation of known evolutionary histories and the implementation of student investigatory experiences on evolution are difficult endeavors that have only recently been feasible. The research presented in this dissertation is related in their shared use of digital evolution with Avidians as a model study system, both to conduct…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Evolution, Biology, Science Instruction
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