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Matthew Flores – ProQuest LLC, 2024
A central aspect of reform-minded mathematical teaching is training and developing teachers' ability to notice vital aspects in the classroom and more specifically, students' mathematical thinking. As there is an abundance of evidence and research that support the benefits for teachers to elicit and use students' ideas and thinking during…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Logic, Thinking Skills, Teaching Methods
Sujatha Ramakrishnan – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The area of interest considered for the study was the overall academic achievement in biology lecture and laboratory courses using Bloom's Taxonomy. The problem of the study is the lack of higher-order thinking skills leading to a learning gap in many universities and colleges. The purpose of the quantitative correlational study was to determine…
Descriptors: Taxonomy, Science Instruction, Lecture Method, Laboratory Procedures
Alma Grisel Irizarry Zambrana – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This is potentially the first study that addressed the Puerto Rican high school students' chemistry knowledge acquisition using traditional teaching and Physics Education Technology. The problem addressed by this quantitative comparative quasi-experimental study was that students' showed a disadvantage on chemistry knowledge acquisition over other…
Descriptors: High School Students, Chemistry, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology
Elesha Goodfriend – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The primary purpose of this study was to compare academic variables from students participating in mixed teaching methods/course revitalization biology courses to those in traditional courses at two community colleges in Tennessee. A two-group comparison design using archived data was used, which evaluated differences in final grades, exam scores,…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Biology, Teaching Methods, Comparative Analysis
Ryan Coker – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Pre-service science teachers develop their teaching practices within and across the university and school contexts of their teacher education programs. The practices and visions of teaching and learning emphasized in each context are often disjointed, a problem referred to as the "two-worlds pitfall." Responding to the call for teacher…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
Brandon J. Yik – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The work in this dissertation is presented in two parts. The first part (Chapters 3 and 4) details work relating to students' explanations of reaction mechanisms in organic chemistry. The second part (Chapters 5 and 6) details work relating to the evaluating the uptake of research-based instructional practices in introductory chemistry,…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation
Cara E. Schwarz – ProQuest LLC, 2024
My thesis work is focused on conceptual and epistemic learning and characterizing the environments in which this learning takes place. Earlier studies conducted by the Stowe group explored how instructional practices, instructional emphasis, and assessment emphasis relate to student outcomes in general and organic chemistry courses. Student…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Organic Chemistry, Epistemology
Denise E. Henderson-Bills – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study examined the early implementation stages of the Modeling Method of Instruction (MMI) in the science classroom to find the most valuable strategies for effective implementation. In this qualitative study, eleven teachers were interviewed to uncover effective implementation strategies. Interview data were analyzed using the constant…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Mentors, Observational Learning, Modeling (Psychology)
Stephanie Kathryn Polutchko – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Dissertation objectives included investigating how environment and plant life history influence aspects of leaf vascular infrastructure that supports photosynthesis, as well as photoprotection of the photosynthetic process. Additionally, I aimed to engage students in science and plant biology through innovative teaching methods. In summer annual…
Descriptors: Botany, Educational Innovation, Expertise, Learner Engagement
Shawn Michael Luce – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Though job opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) continue to expand in the United States, people on Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) while in school are continually disadvantaged in future STEM-based career possibilities. Studies have shown that students on IEPs are far less likely to major in a STEM degree…
Descriptors: Individualized Education Programs, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Self Efficacy
Heather Catherine Thompson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study investigates the instructional practices of a chemistry professor during an immersion summer program, with a focus on employing multimodal discourse within a studio-based learning environment. For this study, multimodal discourse includes natural language, gestures, mathematical expressions, symbolic visual representations, and manual…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Design, Chemistry, Summer Programs
Chad Huelsman – ProQuest LLC, 2022
As educational accountability pressures and science teacher attrition rates within American public-school systems continue to rise, so does the need for improved reform-based professional development (PD) opportunities that allow science educators to challenge their pedagogical beliefs and teaching practices. This qualitative case study explores…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Science Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Science Instruction
Alicia N. Herrera – ProQuest LLC, 2023
To remain competitive in an innovative world, American classrooms are promoting careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) by utilizing the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Students are engaged in inquiry by applying scientific practices like argumentation. However, science teachers are finding it difficult to…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Persuasive Discourse, Questioning Techniques, Teaching Methods
Teresa Lynette Leavens – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this study was to explore four elementary preservice teachers' (PSTs) learning outcomes based on "affective characteristics," "science knowledge," and "pedagogical content knowledge" during a science methods course that incorporated "explicit instruction on drawing-to-reason" about…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Methods Courses
Sabrina Barakat – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Resonance is a fundamental chemistry concept first introduced to students in General Chemistry I, reintroduced in Organic Chemistry I, and then utilized throughout other higher-level chemistry courses. A molecule or ion can be said to exhibit resonance when it can be represented by two or more chemical structures (i.e., Lewis structures) that…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Organic Chemistry, Chemistry, Science Instruction
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