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Coleman, Aaron B.; Lorenzo, Kyla; McLamb, Flannery; Sanku, Abhiraj; Khan, Sahil; Bozinovic, Goran – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2023
Effectively teaching scientific reasoning requires an understanding of the challenges students face when learning these skills. We designed an assessment that measures undergraduate student abilities to form hypotheses, design experiments, and interpret data from experiments in cellular and molecular biology. The assessment uses…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Science Process Skills, Undergraduate Students, Cytology
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Ha, Minsu; Sya'bandari, Yustika; Rusmana, Ai Nurlaelasari; Aini, Rahmi Qurota; Fadillah, Sarah Meilani – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2021
Scientific reasoning ability is essential to get developed in the current digital age, particularly in the process of judgement and decision-making in complex problems. Few studies have conducted an in-depth exploration of scientific reasoning ability, especially in relation to the confidence level and gender. The scientific reasoning ability of…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Secondary School Students, College Students, Gender Differences
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Altay, Nalan – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2021
This study was carried out to determine relationship between prospective teachers (studying at department of social studies teaching)' attitudes towards learning and their scientific epistemological beliefs. The study was conducted with 213 prospective (preservice) social studies teachers who were studying at Faculty of Education of a public…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Social Studies, Student Attitudes
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Deveci, Isa; Aydin, Furkan – Issues in Educational Research, 2018
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between fifth to eighth grade students' tendencies toward academic risk-taking and their attitudes to science. A total of 680 students participated in this study which used a relational survey model. The "Science Attitude Scale" and "Academic Risk-taking Scale" scales…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Scientific Attitudes, Risk
Korucu, Agah Tugrul; Gencturk, Abdullah Tarik; Gundogdu, Mustafa Mucahit – Online Submission, 2017
Computational thinking is generally considered as a kind of analytical way of thinking. According to Wings (2008) it shares with mathematical thinking, engineering thinking and scientific thinking in the general ways in which we may use for solving a problem, designing and evaluating complex systems or understanding computability and intelligence…
Descriptors: Mental Computation, Thinking Skills, Problem Solving, Secondary School Students
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Ding, Lin – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2018
This study examines progression trends of Chinese students' scientific reasoning skills across grade levels from elementary school to university. A large-scale survey using the Classroom Test of Scientific Reasoning (CTSR) was conducted with 2669 Chinese students at 13 grade levels (grades 4-16). The construct validity of the CTSR was first…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Thinking Skills, Skill Development, Elementary School Students
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Nather, Fatima – College Student Journal, 2013
The present study was to investigate the patterns of moral reasoning of a sample of college students at Kuwait University, and to examine the effect of education level upon their moral reasoning abilities. A sample of 90 college male students participated in this study. They ranged in age from 17-25. For the purpose of this study they were divided…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Logical Thinking, College Students, Role of Education
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Jones, Stephanie M.; Kim, James; LaRusso, Maria; Kim, Ha Yeon; Snow, Catherine – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2015
"Time to Act," a 2009 report of the Carnegie Corporation's Council on Advancing Adolescent Literacy, concludes that U.S. students are ill-prepared for the literacy challenges of 21st century higher education, employment, and citizenship. Word Generation (WG) is a research-based vocabulary program for middle school students designed to…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Poverty, Middle School Students, Vocabulary Development
Nolan, C. A.; Brandon, E. P. – 1984
The results of studies that examined the logical reasoning of secondary students in Jamaica are analyzed. A logical reasoning test was administered to 205 Jamaican students in grades 7, 9, and 11. Also analyzed were data collected using the same instrument on three other groups of Jamaican students in grades 7, 8, 9, and 10. As expected, test…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education