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Swanson, Carolyn – Teachers and Curriculum, 2016
This paper highlights the use of a drama convention--"Role on the Wall"--to teach the Nature of Science (NOS) in a Year 7/8 classroom. Students were positioned as "expert" scientists re-investigating the science behind the sinking of the Wahine in a Mantle of the Expert unit. Students drew a "Role on the Wall" of a…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Scientific Attitudes, Scientists
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Gitomer, Drew H.; Brown, Terran L.; Bonett, John – Journal of Teacher Education, 2011
Many individuals who attempt to enter teacher education programs are precluded from doing so because of an inability to pass basic skills tests. The authors examine whether these tests are simply a gate that needs to be passed through or whether they provide useful early information about how individuals are likely to perform on subsequent…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Basic Skills, Prognostic Tests, Educational Testing
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Glick, Peter; Sahn, David E. – Economics of Education Review, 2009
We use unique data to estimate the determinants of cognitive ability among 14-17-year olds in Senegal. Unlike standard school-based samples, tests were administered to current students as well as to children no longer--or never--enrolled. Years of schooling strongly affects cognitive skills, but conditional on years of school, parental education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Tests
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Dreyer, Albert S.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1971
Discusses how differing cognitive style in adolescents relates to their adaptation to pubescent body change. (NH)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Body Image, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Tests