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de Souza, Renata T. M. P.; da Silva, Matheus dos Santos Barbosa; Barbato, Daniela M. L.; Ruggiero de Guzzi, Mara Eugênia; Kasseboehmer, Ana Cláudia – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2022
Studies on students' motivation to learn Chemistry in developed countries are largely common in the literature. However, very few studies have been carried out with a view to investigating students' motivation to learn Chemistry in places like Latin America, and specifically in Brazil. The present study sought to translate the Chemistry Motivation…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Learning Motivation, Factor Analysis
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Testa, Italo; Costanzo, Giovanni; Crispino, Marianna; Galano, Silvia; Parlati, Alessio; Tarallo, Oreste; Tricò, Francesca; Scotti di Uccio, Umberto – International Journal of Science Education, 2022
In this study, we present a new instrument, the Participation and Engagement Scale (PES), for the evaluation of the students' involvement in STEM-oriented activities. The instrument was administered to about 1000 secondary school students who participated in the activities of the Italian "Piano Nazionale Lauree Scientifiche" in Biology,…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Science Instruction, Science Activities, Distance Education
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Cigdemoglu, Ceyhan – Science Education International, 2020
The aim of this paper was to investigate the effect of the use of science, technology, and society (STS) issues through flipped and traditional learning environments on students' motivation to learn chemistry as well as their chemical literacy (CL). Two freshman engineering classes totaling 89 students taught by the same instructor enrolled in a…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Intervention, Teaching Methods
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Vilia, Paulo; Candeias, Adelinda A. – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
The importance of attitudes and other variables of the affective domain in education is acknowledged for a long time. In this study, we used an attitude questionnaire to survey 498 Portuguese 9th-grade students to determine the predictive ability of the attitudes towards the discipline of Physics-chemistry on school achievement. Possible gender…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Student Attitudes, Factor Structure, High School Students
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Turkoguz, Suat – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2012
The aim of this study was to investigate undergraduate students' attitudes to using visual media tools in the chemistry laboratory. One hundred and fifteen undergraduates studying science education at Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey participated in the study. They video-recorded chemistry experiments with visual media tools and assessed them on a…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Foreign Countries, Visual Aids, Video Technology
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Heredia, Keily; Lewis, Jennifer E. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2012
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the psychometric properties of The Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey (CLASS). The 50-item instrument was administered to 311 college students from a public institution in the United States enrolled in General Chemistry I Laboratory. Confirmatory factor analysis and Cronbach's [alpha]…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Evidence, Chemistry, Psychometrics