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Ceci, Stephen J. – Educational Psychologist, 2018
Although women are underrepresented in the most mathematically intensive fields, the gender gap in these fields has narrowed over the past 2 decades. In my E. L. Thorndike address I summarized the temporal trends in sex differences for 8 fields and considered factors that drive both the underrepresentation of women and its recent narrowing. I…
Descriptors: Females, Scientists, Disproportionate Representation, Gender Differences
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Fusulier, Bernard; Barbier, Pascal; Dubois-Shaik, Farah – European Educational Research Journal, 2017
Men and women remain in unequal positions in coping with their scientific and academic careers. Several of the mechanisms dissuading or preventing women from pursuing scientific careers have already been described in the literature: women getting stuck with paltry, undervalued tasks, thus manufacturing a "sticky floor"; structuring the…
Descriptors: Science Careers, Gender Differences, Family Work Relationship, College Faculty
Kameo, Nahoko – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The dissertation examines how Japanese university scientists in the biosciences responded to legal and institutional changes in academic entrepreneurship. Beginning in the 1990s, the Japanese government initiated a series of policy initiatives that attempted to imitate the U.S. academic environment's approach to promoting entrepreneurship. Using…
Descriptors: Universities, Entrepreneurship, Trust (Psychology), Scientists
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Mansour, Nasser – International Journal of Science Education, 2015
Despite a growing consensus regarding the value of inquiry-based learning (IBL) for students' learning and engagement in the science classroom, the implementation of such practices continues to be a challenge. If science teachers are to use IBL to develop students' inquiry practices and encourage them to think and act as scientists, a better…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Science Instruction, Science Teachers, Scientists
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Lin-Siegler, Xiaodong; Ahn, Janet N.; Chen, Jondou; Fang, Fu-Fen Anny; Luna-Lucero, Myra – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2016
Students' beliefs that success in science depends on exceptional talent negatively impact their motivation to learn. For example, such beliefs have been shown to be a major factor steering students away from taking science and math courses in high school and college. In the present study, we tested a novel story-based instruction that models how…
Descriptors: High School Students, Science Interests, Learning Motivation, Science Instruction
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González-Espada, Wilson; Llerandi-Román, Pablo; Fortis-Santiago, Yaihara; Guerrero-Medina, Giovanna; Ortiz-Vega, Nicole; Feliú-Mójer, Mónica; Colón-Ramos, Daniel – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2015
Although researchers have argued that textbooks should be customized to local cultures and experiences, they rarely are. Ciencia Puerto Rico, a non-profit group interested in promoting science literacy and education among Latino(a)s/Hispanics, identified a need to provide schools with culturally relevant materials. The result was the publication…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Hispanic American Students, Learning Activities, Instructional Materials
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Heidler, Richard – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2011
Scientific collaboration can only be understood along the epistemic and cognitive grounding of scientific disciplines. New scientific discoveries in astrophysics led to a major restructuring of the elite network of astrophysics. To study the interplay of the epistemic grounding and the social network structure of a discipline, a mixed-methods…
Descriptors: Network Analysis, Cooperation, Social Structure, Social Networks
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Röhm, Dürten; Rollnick, Marissa – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2010
This paper reports on the development of an instrument which was used to gather information on the views of science students on the social responsibility of scientists. The methodology is based on a "Views on Science-Technology-Society (VOSTS)" instrument which was developed in Canada. It involves three phases, employing interviews and…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Science Education, Student Attitudes, Social Responsibility
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Dancy, Melissa H.; Beichner, Robert J. – Cell Biology Education, 2002
There are increasing numbers of traditional biologists, untrained in educational research methods, who want to develop and assess new classroom innovations. In this article we argue the necessity of formal research over normal classroom feedback. We also argue that traditionally trained biologists can make significant contributions to biology…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Educational Research, Research Methodology, Statistical Analysis