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Carmel, Justin H.; Yezierski, Ellen J. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2013
College instruction aims not only to expand students' content knowledge, but also to help students develop practical skills, such as the ability to think critically. This study was conducted in a chemistry course for non science majors offered as part of a liberal education core curriculum at a large public university in the Midwest. Students…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Logical Thinking, Critical Thinking, Science Process Skills
Lawson, Anton E. – Journal of Elementary Science Education, 2008
Children personally construct explanations of natural phenomena, some of which differ from currently accepted scientific explanations. The replacement of personal explanations with scientific explanations, as well as the development of concrete, formal, and post-formal reasoning patterns, requires self-regulation in which alternative explanations…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Structures, Active Learning, Inquiry
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Goodlad, Sinclair – Studies in Higher Education, 2000
Suggests that the perspectives developed by humanities as part of education in science, technology, and medicine can offer enrichment in ways that lead to both use and delight. Sketches some activities at the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (ICSTM) in London concerned with liberal education and describes some of the…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Humanities
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Pascarella, Ernest; And Others – Journal of College Student Development, 1996
Investigated the relative cognitive impacts on black students' attendance at historically black colleges versus predominantly white colleges. Using numerous data types, found that black students attending black colleges did as well or better than their counterparts at the white institutions on standardized measures of writing skills and science…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Colleges, Black Institutions, Blacks
Pace, C. Robert – 1996
This paper seeks evidence of a culture gulf, first voiced by C.P. Snow in 1959, between science and humanities as reflected in the understanding which undergraduate science and humanities majors have of the other field. The 1995 study evaluated responses of students at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and California's Humboldt State…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Humanities