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Teaching Fundamental Skills in Microsoft Excel to First-Year Students in Quantitative Analysis
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Rubin, Samuel J.; Abrams, Binyomin – Journal of Chemical Education, 2015
Despite their technological savvy, most students entering university lack the necessary computer skills to succeed in a quantitative analysis course, in which they are often expected to input, analyze, and plot results of experiments without any previous formal education in Microsoft Excel or similar programs. This lack of formal education results…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, College Science, Science Instruction, Spreadsheets
Internet Self-Efficacy Preferences of Internet Based Environments and Achievement of Prospective Teachers
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Ozyalcin Oskay, Ozge – Hacettepe University Journal of Education, 2011
The aims of this study are to determine prospective chemistry teachers' internet self-efficacy and preferences of constructivist internet-assisted environments and to examine the relationship between their internet self-efficacy and their preferences for constructivist internet-assisted environments, the relationship between their achievement in…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Self Efficacy, Achievement Tests, Chemistry
New Challenges in Education: Retrospection of History of Education to the Future in the Interdisciplinary Dialogue among Didactics of Various School Subjects
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Gallová, Mária, Ed.; Guncaga, Ján, Ed.; Chanasová, Zuzana, Ed.; Chovancová, Michaela Moldová, Ed. – Online Submission, 2013
Purpose: The purpose of this scientific monograph is to show new and creative approaches to different school subjects in primary and secondary level. Methodology: Interdisciplinary and international comparative approaches were used. Now according to the 7th Framework Program, the preferred form of Science Education (www.scientix.eu) is preferred…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Intellectual Disciplines, Comparative Analysis
The Use of Computer Tools in Implementation Projects in Schools
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Grasel, Cornelia – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2007
In recent years, some endeavours have been made to overcome the gap between theoretical and practical knowledge. In many countries projects have been conducted that aim to disseminate research-based knowledge in the practical field of education. This article presents an approach to the implementation of research results. This approach is referred…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Collaboration, Communities of Practice, Teacher Behavior
Computers in the Education of Science Students: A Comparison of Universities and Colleges in Japan and the United States.
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Stogryn, Daniel E. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 1989
Reports on a comparison of computer instruction at Japanese and American universities and colleges. Discusses hardware, education of students, computer graphics, and cooperative efforts. States that computer hardware in Japan is of high quality, abundant, and inexpensively accessed, and in America there is a stronger, direct instructional…
Descriptors: Chemistry, College Science, Comparative Education, Computer Graphics
Searching Chemical Abstracts Online in Undergraduate Chemistry.
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Krumpolc, Miroslav; And Others – Journal of Chemical Education, 1987
Discusses the advantages of conducting online computer searches of "Chemical Abstracts." Introduces the logical sequences involved in searching an online database. Explains Boolean logic, proximity operators, truncation, searchable fields, and command language, as they relate to the use of online searches in undergraduate chemistry…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Chemistry, College Science, Computer Literacy