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Özarslan, Murat; Çetin, Gülcan – Science Education International, 2018
The aim of the study was to determine gifted and talented students' views about biology activities in a science and art center. The study was conducted with 26 gifted and talented students who studied at a science and art center in southwestern Turkey. Students studied animal and plant genus and species in biology activities. Data were collected…
Descriptors: Talent, Student Attitudes, Biology, Science Instruction
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Crow, Sherry R. – School Library Research, 2015
This study, conducted in June 2014 in Kampala, Uganda, is a follow-up to a similar study conducted in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 2008. The basic research question addressed is: "What are the experiences in the lives of upper elementary-aged Ugandan children that foster an intrinsic motivation to seek information?" A secondary…
Descriptors: Information Seeking, Collectivism, Learning Motivation, Individualism
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Kitsantas, Anastasia; Kitsantas, Panagiota; Kitsantas, Thomas – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2012
The purpose of this exploratory study was to assess the relative importance of a number of variables in predicting students' interest in math and/or computer science. Classification and regression trees (CART) were employed in the analysis of survey data collected from 276 college students enrolled in two U.S. and Greek universities. The results…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Computer Science, Mathematics, Student Interests
Fazeli, Seyed Hossein – Online Submission, 2012
This study aims to rank types of English language learning strategies that are used by Iranian female university level learners of English language as a university major. The results show that except for the Metacognitive Strategies category, the mean score for each of the five categories fell in the range of medium strategy use.
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Metacognition, English (Second Language), Majors (Students)
Kurubacak, Gulsun – Online Submission, 2007
The main purpose of this paper is to identify and rank the future research categories, priorities and needs for online learning. Based on the main purpose of this study and the concerns, the key research inquiries are: (1) What are the major research categories identified by the online workers for online learning over the next ten years?; (2) What…
Descriptors: Research Needs, Delphi Technique, Online Courses, Classification
Harste, Jerome C. – 1972
A career typology is proposed as a method to evaluate teacher education programs. To test the viability of this approach, University of Minnesota graduate students majoring in elementary education were studied in terms of their declared career orientations. This investigation indicated that the graduate program in elementary education was oriented…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Classification, Discriminant Analysis, Educational Programs
MCDOWELL, JAMES V.
STUDENT ORIENTATION TOWARD COLLEGE WAS STUDIED BY ADMINISTERING A UNIFORM BATTERY OF TESTS AND QUESTIONNAIRES, INCLUDING THE CLARK AND TROW ROLE ORIENTATION INSTRUMENT (RO), TO 1,988 ENTERING FRESHMEN AT 13 SMALL COLLEGES. IN THE SPRING, 25 PERCENT OF THESE STUDENTS WERE GIVEN MOST OF THE SAME BATTERY. STUDENTS WERE CLASSIFIED INTO FOUR TYPES ON…
Descriptors: Classification, College Freshmen, Educational Environment, Orientation