The current state attaches great importance to college entrepreneurship education, but entrepreneurship education should combine with college students' professional learning. Different professional learning backgrounds have commonalities in entrepreneurship education; there may be differences, too. Various professional knowledge background and…

Created to foster inclusive excellence, Smith College's Achieving Excellence in Mathematics, Engineering, and Science (AEMES) Scholars program provides early faculty-mentored research opportunities and other programming as a way to foster success in academic outcomes for underrepresented women in science. Using academic record data, we compared…

Primary research articles discuss aspects of scientific inquiry that are important in understanding the nature of science. Yet, most introductory science courses use textbooks that ignore the scientific process; opportunities for explicit discussion of the nature of science are lost. In Hampshire College's science program, students read current…

THE AIMS OF THIS PROJECT WERE TO STUDY THE RETENTION BY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN OF SCIENCE MATERIAL PRESENTED IN AN INTEGRATED PROGRAM OF SCIENCE TEACHING BY TELEVISION, AND TO STUDY THE CHANGES IN INTERESTS AND ATTITUDES TOWARD SCIENCE SUBSEQUENT TO THE PRESENTATION OF SUCH AN INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM. THE SUBJECTS WERE 1,600 FIFTH-GRADE…

INVESTIGATED WERE DIFFERENCES IN AMOUNT AND QUALITY OF LEARNING WHEN TWO DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO TEACHING PROBLEM-SOLVING AND INFORMATION-GIVING WERE USED IN TELEVISION-AIDED INSTRUCTION IN THE NATURAL SCIENCES. INVOLVED WERE 36 RANDOMLY SELECTED FIFTH-GRADE CLASSES, AND 36 TEACHERS. TWO DIFFERENT SERIES OF TELEVISION PROGRAMS, AND TWO DIFFERENT…

DURING 1959, BOSTON UNIVERSITY CARRIED OUT A RESEARCH PROJECT TO STUDY THE EFFECTS OF TELEVISED INSTRUCTION WITH 90 FIFTH-GRADE CLASSES PARTICIPATING IN A SERIES OF TELEVISED NATURAL SCIENCE PROGRAMS. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY WERE TO DETERMINE HOW MUCH CHILDREN LEARNED FROM THE PROGRAMS, THE EFFECTS OF THE SERIES ON CHILDREN'S INTERESTS, ATTITUDES,…

THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO TEST THE EFFECTS OF SPECIFIED CONDITIONS OF TELEVISION PRESENTATION AND OF CLASSROOM ACTIVITY UPON THE ACQUISITION OF MEANINGFUL CONCEPTS AND GENERALIZATIONS OF CERTAIN NATURAL SCIENCE PHENOMENA. THE SUBJECTS CONSISTED OF 36 FIFTH-GRADE CLASSES (APPROXIMATELY 1,000 CHILDREN) SELECTED FROM 90 CLASSES WHICH HAD…

This report provides information about the performance of 2009 graduating seniors who took the ACT as sophomores, juniors, or seniors; and self-reported at the time of testing that they were scheduled to graduate in 2009 and tested under standard time conditions. This report focuses on: (1) Performance: student test performance in the context of…

Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, Physics, and Ecology assessment instruments were administered to approximately 1,800 nine year old and 1,800 seventeen year old Massachusetts students. The 9 year old students exceeded the performance of a national and international sampling of students. They equaled the performance of a sampling of students from…