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Leslie A. Widener – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study investigated how peer feedback as an instructional tool might increase the engagement of gifted middle school science students, potentially impacting their academic performance in science. It specifically addressed gifted students' perceptions of peer feedback in science. Furthermore, it explored how peer feedback could be considered a…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Peer Evaluation
Tiana Woolard – ProQuest LLC, 2022
With billions of dollars spent on professional development, there remains a very real disconnect between what teachers are given and what they receive especially in terms of the follow-up of an extended PD program. Several theories attempt to explain the differences that exist within the teacher population, but few professional development…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Faculty Development, Middle School Teachers, Active Learning
Christian Smoke – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Project-based learning (PjBL) instruction is an inquiry-based method that is beneficial to student achievement and their exploration of 21st-century learning skills, but there is a gap in the literature about how Grades 6 to 8 teachers feel about PjBL and its implementation. The research problem was science teachers in the United States were not…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
Sarah Maestrales – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation focuses on three manuscripts all related to bolstering science achievement through recommendations from the National Research Council (NRC) regarding the teaching and learning of science. The manuscripts address meeting the NRC's call to incorporate curriculum and assessment that lead to more in-depth knowledge that can be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Science Education, Chemistry
Jenna Koritsaris – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Science classrooms continue to privilege narrow conceptions of science, and students of color are frequently identified by teachers as disengaged or uninterested in science--part of a deficit narrative socially constructed over time. In this design-based research study, I explored the development and implementation of culturally relevant and…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Team Teaching, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction
Minshew, Lana M. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The National Research Council (NRC) released the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS Lead States, 2013) that established a framework for three-dimensional learning, which includes science and engineering practices, crosscutting concepts, and disciplinary core ideas. The first dimension of learning emphasizes scientific and engineering…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, Science Instruction, Questioning Techniques
Clucas, Melissa E. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Effective early science learning opportunities are critical for young children to build a solid foundation for subsequent development of concepts, as well as positive attitudes towards science (Eshach & Fried, 2005). However, these opportunities are often lacking in typical preschool classrooms (Connor, Morrison, & Slominski, 2006; Early…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Young Children, Teaching Methods, Preschool Education
Harris, Clinton M. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Project Based Learning (PBL) is an instructional strategy used to aid in the improvement of student achievement by incorporating a project as the medium to collaborate and augment competency and skills. The purpose of this study was to explore and examine the implementation of PBL via the use of a district-wide PBL instructional curriculum for…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Problem Based Learning, High School Students, Secondary School Science
Nunez, Manuel – ProQuest LLC, 2018
English learners (ELs) constitute one of the largest subgroups enrolled in the US public education system. The state of California has an estimated 1.5 million ELs in kindergarten through Grade 12. This mixed methods study employed improvement science principles to understand how three high school physics teachers implemented project-based…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Student Projects, Learner Engagement, Self Efficacy
Stanley, Rebecca Matthews – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Schools that focus on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) have been created to address a perceived need to increase numbers of students in the United States choosing and persisting in STEM career pathways. This study compared science programs in STEM and non-STEM high schools to determine how implementing a STEM design impacts…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Science Programs, Comparative Analysis, Secondary School Science
Gradias, Jean – ProQuest LLC, 2017
In 2013, California became one of the first states to adopt the rigorous Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). However, the current state of science instruction does not support the conceptual shifts of the NGSS, which call for consistent science instruction K-12, increased inquiry, subject integration, as well as science instruction that…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Educational Practices, Active Learning, Student Projects
Willis, Melinda B. N. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of the study was to gain an understanding of how novice science teachers transferred the inclusion of the Project-Based Instruction (PBI) pedagogy learned during an undergraduate course on PBI to teaching in the high school science classroom. PBI units in science courses are framed by a driving question, which students answer through a…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Beginning Teachers, Case Studies, Active Learning
Kararo, Alex T. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
There have been calls by the Federal government and policymakers for improvements in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education through the development of excellent teachers with the content knowledge and skills to teach and motivate students. A shared goal among teacher professional development (PD) programs is to improve…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Student Research, Science Instruction, STEM Education
Turner, Larchinee – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This Dissertation in Practice (DiP) uses an action research (AR) methodology to answer a research question pertaining to the impacts of implementing a multimodal-based assessment project in the introductory, General Biology I (BI 114) classroom at East-State Junior College. A mixed-methods approach will be utilized to ascertain the impacts on…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Community Colleges, Action Research
Gardner, Margery – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Integrated STEM education comprises an exploration of the interconnections between science, technology, engineering and mathematics in order to reflect on how each discipline operates within real world contexts. Students benefit from the integrated STEM approach because it values students' real-life experiences and hands-on applications that…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Science Instruction, Integrated Curriculum, Active Learning
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