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Ardasheva, Yuliya; Newcomer, Sarah N.; Firestone, Jonah B.; Lamb, Richard L. – Bilingual Research Journal, 2019
This nonexperimental study examined academic performance profiles and contributions of language-specific and metacognitive skills to science reading comprehension of Grade 7 students of varied English proficiency. The sample included 204 regular education students, most of whom were English learners (ELs; 35 non-ELs, 86 current ELs, and 83 former…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Comprehension, English Language Learners, English (Second Language)
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Nashon, Samson Madera; Anderson, David – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2013
Despite the centrality of the informal manufacturing sector ("Jua Kali") to the Kenyan society and its richness in scientific phenomena, there is no strong link between activities in the Jua Kali and school science. And, although there has been an ongoing public discourse in Kenya to industrialize, this hope is unlikely without…
Descriptors: Learning Experience, Foreign Countries, Science Curriculum, Interviews
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Donovan, Michael P. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 1998
Argues that students are conditioned by years of multiple-choice testing to use only simple recall and view knowledge as an uncataloged museum full of independent facts that are collected, recited, and left to gather dust. (DDR)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Higher Education, Knowledge Representation, Learning Strategies
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And Others; Adamczyk, Peter – School Science Review, 1994
Considers the idea that concept mapping has applications beyond those associated with student assessment. Outlines further uses for concept mapping in the classroom along with suggestions for implementing this powerful tool. (DDR)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Concept Mapping, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education
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Pizzini, Edward L.; And Others – Science Teacher, 1988
Describes a model that teaches a problem-solving process and provides students with the opportunity to practice, develop, and enhance their thinking skills. States that applying learning to real problems is needed to increase a student's thinking ability. Provides diagrams of the problem-solving cycle and levels of thinking. (RT)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking, Learning Processes, Learning Strategies
Griffard, Phyllis Baudoin; Wandersee, James H. – 1998
This paper presents a comparative case study of two students learning in an urban environment but characterized by high motivation, effective discipline, small classes, generous academic support, counseling, and educational equipment. The primary question driving the study relates to the challenges to meaningful learning in a special science high…
Descriptors: Black Students, Cognitive Processes, Educational Change, Females
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Gunstone, R. F.; And Others – Science Education, 1992
Examined Australian year-10 students (n=110) for the effects of an instructional sequence in physics on their subsequent physics achievement and their perceived value of instruction aimed at conceptual change in year 11. An appendix outlines the year-10 instruction. (Contains 24 references.) (MDH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Constructivism (Learning), Foreign Countries