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Cimer, Atilla – Educational Research and Reviews, 2012
The present study aims to determine the biological topics that students have difficulties learning, the reasons why secondary school students have difficulties in learning biology, and ways to improve the effectiveness of students' biology learning. For these purposes, a self-administered questionnaire including three open-ended questions was…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Student Attitudes, Biology, Foreign Countries
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Warwas, Jasmin; Nagy, Gabriel; Watermann, Rainer; Hasselhorn, Marcus – Journal of Career Assessment, 2009
This study examines the relationships of vocational interests and mathematical literacy both cross-sectionally and longitudinally. Extending previous research, the results of Holland's RIASEC (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional) scale scores are compared with results from a reductionist approach using…
Descriptors: Vocational Interests, Interest Inventories, Profiles, Numeracy
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Hirschi, Andreas – Journal of Career Assessment, 2009
Interest differentiation and elevation are supposed to provide important information about a person's state of interest development, yet little is known about their development and criterion validity. The present study explored these constructs among a group of Swiss adolescents. Study 1 applied a cross-sectional design with 210 students in 11th…
Descriptors: Vocational Interests, Validity, Adolescents, Individual Development
Wicklein, Robert; Mativo, John – National Center for Engineering and Technology Education, 2009
The purpose of this research project was to use an experimental design research methodology to compare learning and attitudinal effects of two different design instructional strategies on randomly selected and assigned 11th and 12th grade students. Through the use of a common technological based problem, students were guided through a design…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Student Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Research Design