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Spagnoli, Dino; Wong, Lawrence; Maisey, Shannan; Clemons, Tristan D. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2017
Student feelings towards the laboratory component of an introductory chemistry unit were evaluated in an action research study, over a three-year period at the University of Western Australia. In 2013 we found that the percentage of students with negative feelings towards the laboratory increased over the duration of a semester. In 2014 we…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Scientific Attitudes, Negative Attitudes
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Harsh, Joseph A.; Maltese, Adam V.; Tai, Robert H. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2011
Undergraduate research experiences (UREs) have been endorsed as a powerful instructional tool in higher education; however, relatively little is known about the long-term effects of participation in these programs. The purpose of this study was to investigate the educational enhancements of URE participation from the perspective of practicing…
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Undergraduate Students, College Science, Science Instruction
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Turner, Kenneth; Tevaarwerk, Emma; Unterman, Nathan; Grdinic, Marcel; Campbell, Jason; Chandrasekhar, Venkat; Chang, R. P. H. – Science Teacher, 2006
Nanoscience refers to the fundamental study of scientific phenomena, which occur at the nanoscale--nanotechnology to the exploitation of novel properties and functions of materials in the sub-100 nm size range. One of the underlying principles of science is development of models of observed phenomena. In biology, the Hardy-Weinberg principle is a…
Descriptors: Mechanics (Physics), Motion, Concept Formation, Biology