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Cottone, Amanda Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Participation in the science workforce is low, and this can be partially attributed to low retention rates of undergraduate students who initially declare a science major. Low retention rates are further exacerbated for under-represented minority (URM) and first-generation (FG) college students pursuing science, and the existence of achievement…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Undergraduate Study, College Science, Biology
Crooks, Kathleen Schwartz – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Students have their own lenses through which they view school science and the students' views are often left out of educational conversations which directly affect the students themselves. Pinar's (2004) definition of curriculum as a "complicated conversation" implies that the class' voice is important, as important as the teacher's voice, to the…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Secondary School Science, Science Education, Learner Engagement