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Zohar Snapir; Galit Karadi; Michal Zion – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
We examined inquiry practices and types of knowledge presented along with paths of logical associations between inquiry questions as part of an open inquiry process. The study analysed high school biology students' scientific summaries of open inquiry processes. We found three paths of logical associations between inquiry questions -- preliminary…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Hands on Science
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Ford, Alex – Teaching History, 2020
Aware both that causation is the bread and butter of the historian's craft, and that trainee teachers find it far harder to teach well than they anticipate, Alex Ford sought to get to the heart of the problem with causation, especially at GCSE. When teaching to a specification and mark scheme, both of which reward poorly substantiated causal…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, History Instruction
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Rozell, Timothy G.; Johnson, Jessica; Sexten, Andrea; Rhodes, Ashley E. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2017
Students in a junior- and senior-level Anatomy and Physiology course have the opportunity to correct missed exam questions ("regrade") and earn up to half of the original points missed. The three objectives of this study were to determine if: (a) performance on the regrade assignment was correlated with scores on subsequent exams, (b)…
Descriptors: Physiology, Scores, Grades (Scholastic), Exit Examinations
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Prince, Robert; Frith, Vera – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2020
In South Africa many school-leavers are underprepared for higher education, especially in academic literacies, including numeracy. It is important for higher education to identify the students most vulnerable to failure in coping with the numeracy demands of the curriculum, so that resources available for interventions can be most fairly used. To…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Foreign Countries, Numeracy, Higher Education
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Rambo-Hernandez, Karen E.; Atadero, Rebecca A.; Balgopal, Meena – Educational Psychology, 2017
This study examined the impact of incorporating group design projects into a second-year engineering class on achievement goal orientations and two academic outcomes: concept inventory and final exam scores. In this study, two sections were taught using lecture format, but one section also completed three group design projects as part of their…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Group Activities, Student Projects, Goal Orientation
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Ojukwu, M. O. – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2016
The aim of this study was to investigate the perception of students on the causes of their poor performance in external chemistry examinations in Umuahia North Local Government Area of Abia State. Descriptive survey design was used for the study. Two hundred and forty (240) students were selected through simple random sampling for the study. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chemistry, Student Attitudes, Low Achievement
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Farley, Lisa – Curriculum Inquiry, 2015
In this paper, I theorize fantasies of idealization at work in narratives of educational research. I take as an example one of the very first psychoanalytically oriented studies in the field: Marion Milner's, "The Human Problem in Schools," published in 1938. Evidence is drawn from Milner's published book as well as from the historical…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Psychiatry, Creativity, Correlation
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Dargusch, Joanne – English in Australia, 2014
This paper reports on the findings of a study that investigated formative assessment practices of Senior English teachers in the standards-based Queensland assessment system. This paper focuses in particular on the teachers' provision of feedback on rough draft summative assessment items. It identifies the links between assessment criteria and…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), National Curriculum, Formative Evaluation, Foreign Countries
Beebe, Rosella I. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study examined the relationship between human patient simulation (HPS), critical thinking skills, and knowledge acquisition after HPS was integrated across the curriculum of an associate degree nursing program to determine if differences existed in critical thinking and knowledge of students based on the fidelity of HPS used and amount of…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Nursing Students, Associate Degrees, Fidelity
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Barmby, Patrick; Bolden, David; Higgins, Steve; Tymms, Peter – Educational Research, 2012
Background: Successfully selecting students for undergraduate courses and for teaching is notoriously difficult. Traditionally, in England, A level grades and interviews have been used in conjunction with a variety of other approaches. Purpose: This paper examines the predictive validity of students' A level grades and of scores from a structured…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Predictive Validity, Interviews, Classification
Lee, Hyemi – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Since the 1990s, many states have started implementing standards-based reforms and developed their own accountability systems. Each state established academic content and performance standards, implemented test for all the students in grades 3 through 8 annually, and set up annual measurable objectives in reading and mathematics for districts,…
Descriptors: Principals, Accountability, Academic Achievement, Teacher Attitudes
Ochwo, Pius – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study examined the multilevel factors that influence mathematics and English performance on the Primary Leaving Examinations (PLEs) among primary seven pupils (i.e., equivalent to the United States [U.S.] 7th graders) in Uganda. Existing student state test data from the Wakiso District were obtained. In addition, a newly created Teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Characteristics, Student Characteristics, Institutional Characteristics