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The Effects of a Socioscientific Issues Instructional Model in Secondary Agricultural Education on Students' Content Knowledge, Scientific Reasoning Ability, Argumentation Skills, and Views of the Nature of Science
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Shoulders, Catherine Woglom – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of a socioscientific issues-based instructional model on secondary agricultural education students' content knowledge, scientific reasoning ability, argumentation skills, and views of the nature of science. This study utilized a pre-experimental, single group pretest-posttest design to assess…
Descriptors: Science and Society, Science Instruction, Secondary School Science, Agricultural Education
Conceptual Change and Science Achievement Related to a Lesson Sequence on Acids and Bases among African American Alternative High School Students: A Teacher's Practical Arguments and the Voice of the "Other"
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Wood, Lynda Charese – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The study of teaching and learning during the period of translating ideals of reform into classroom practice enables us to understand student-teacher-researcher symbiotic learning. In line with this assumption, the purpose of this study is threefold:(1) observe effects of the "Common Knowledge Construction Model" (CKCM), a conceptual…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Science Achievement, Secondary School Science, Chemistry