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Oluwatobi Odeleye; Parsa N. Lessani; Diya Tang – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
General chemistry is a gateway course that students from several STEM-related majors take at the beginning of their college careers. Faced with high attrition rates of students in STEM fields and even higher rates for groups minoritized due to gender and ethnicity/race, this study explored how a general chemistry course influenced students'…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Student Attitudes, Student Interests
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Gao, Furong; Li, Jiao; Xu, Jie; Jia, Song; Xu, Lei; Li, Siguang; Xu, Guo-Tong; Lu, Lixia – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2019
Recently, Chinese medical education has exhibited a shifting trend from teacher-centered instruction to student-centered learning, which usually includes a self-directed learning process. Providing students with high-quality and appropriate supplemental resources is necessary for their self-directed learning. This study aimed to investigate the…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Biochemistry, Science Instruction, Medical Students
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Mansour, Nasser – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
This study explored the interplay between science teachers' pedagogical beliefs, scientific evidence, and diversity. This study adopts a sociocultural view of science that views science as a cultural way of knowing, and acknowledges that it is laden with cultural understandings, interpretations, and a language of its own. This paper reports…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Evidence, Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Schwanewedel, Julia; Heitmann, Patricia; Hecht, Martin; Scherer, Ronny – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2018
Argumentation is considered crucial in numerous disciplines. However, it is unclear whether argumentation is understood in comparable ways across disciplines. This study examined how students perceive argumentation in science and language lessons, and investigated beliefs about the relevance of discourse and facts. Data from 3,258 high school…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Student Attitudes, Science Instruction, Gender Differences
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Say, Serkan; Yildirim, Fatih Serdar – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2020
The aim of this study was to examine the pre-service teachers' Web 2.0 rapid content development self-efficacy belief levels and their opinions about Web 2.0 tools. The study was carried out by using "convergent parallel mixed design". In the academic year of 2019-2020, 254 pre-service teachers voluntarily participated in the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Content Analysis
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Mun, Kongju; Shin, Namsoo; Lee, Hyunju; Kim, Sung-Won; Choi, Kyunghee; Choi, Sung-Youn; Krajcik, Joseph S. – International Journal of Science Education, 2015
We re-conceptualized the meaning of scientific literacy and developed an instrument, which we call the Global Scientific Literacy Questionnaire (GSLQ) based on a new conceptual framework for scientific literacy in the twenty-first century. We identified five dimensions, each with key elements. The five dimensions are (1) content knowledge (core…
Descriptors: Scientific Literacy, Science Instruction, Metacognition, Secondary School Students
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Kaheru, Sam J.; Kriek, Jeanne – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2016
A study on the effect of the use of computer simulations (CS) on the acquisition of knowledge and cognitive load was undertaken with 104 Grade 11 learners in four schools in rural South Africa on the physics topic geometrical optics. Owing to the lack of resources a teacher-centred approach was followed in the use of computer simulations. The…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Gender Differences, Scores, Pretests Posttests
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Giallousi, M.; Gialamas, V.; Pavlatou, E. A. – Learning Environments Research, 2013
The present study was the first in Greece in which educational effectiveness theory constituted a knowledge base for investigating the impact of chemistry classroom environment in 10 Grade students' enjoyment of class. An interpretive heuristic schema was developed and utilised in order to incorporate two factors of teacher behaviour at classroom…
Descriptors: Grade 10, Foreign Countries, Chemistry, Science Instruction
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Barnes, Tiffany, Ed.; Chi, Min, Ed.; Feng, Mingyu, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2016
The 9th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2016) is held under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society at the Sheraton Raleigh Hotel, in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, in the USA. The conference, held June 29-July 2, 2016, follows the eight previous editions (Madrid 2015, London 2014, Memphis…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Evidence Based Practice, Inquiry, Science Instruction