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Salas-Morera, Lorenzo; Ruiz-Bustos, Rocío; Cejas-Molina, María Antonia; Olivares-Olmedilla, José L.; García-Hernández, Laura; Palomo-Romero, Juan M. – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2021
Despite the continuous efforts of governments and universities to avoid the underrepresentation of women entering engineering degrees, the trend has not reverted, and this is a general fact all over the world. This fact goes against the tendency of a growing ratio of women in tertiary education, so causes must be investigated. This research…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Academic Degrees, Course Selection (Students), Females
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Aivelo, Tuomas – Environmental Education Research, 2023
Most of biodiversity is not considered charismatic and from human's perspective it can be indifferent, problematic, harmful, disgusting, or dangerous. Secondary school students' attitudes towards an unloved species and how it relates to their feelings of disgust in the context of a biology course were studied during a citizen science project where…
Descriptors: Biodiversity, Science Education, Item Response Theory, Student Attitudes
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Keskin, Cansu; Akcay, Hakan; Kapici, Hasan Ozgur – International Journal of Technology in Education and Science, 2020
Providing individuals with environmental awareness from a young age is very important for a livable and sustainable world. In this context, this study aims to investigate the impacts of the environmental science project, the Water Explorer Program, on middle school students' water usage behaviors, and attitudes. A quasi-experimental research…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Sustainable Development, Middle School Students, Science Projects
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Dolenc, Nathan R.; Kazanis, William H. – Science Educator, 2020
Interest driven learning has the potential to enhance the inquiry based learning process by contextualizing curriculum as students investigate scientific questions, collecting and analyzing data, and construct reasonable conclusions relative to their interests. This paper presents a project and its findings that involved preservice elementary…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, Student Interests, Preservice Teachers
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Muhammad, Tukur; Sarojini Daniel, Esther Gnanamalar; Abd Rauf, Rose Amnah – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Sciences, 2019
Parents are considered as the most vital influence for the education of female students, there has been a vast area of research on how science education is perceived by parents and society in general. In Nigeria, the parents' mindset about the education of female students is not encouraging Thus, this paper presents the results of impact of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Attitudes, Females, Gender Bias
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Sagat, Ezgi; Karakus, Fazilet – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2019
The purpose of the study is to analyze gifted and talented students' project performances and views about them. In the study, explanatory sequential design, which is one of the mixed method research designs, was applied. In the quantitative phase of the study, project performances of the students were identified, while, in the qualitative phase,…
Descriptors: Science Projects, Gifted, Science Achievement, Student Attitudes
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Ramnarain, Umesh Dewnarain – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2020
This mixed methods research explored the autonomous experiences of South African school students when participating in a science fair. A prominent global goal for school science education is for students to partake in scientific inquiry in order to acquire understanding of science concepts, the processes and skills of science, and the nature of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Personal Autonomy, Science Fairs
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McKinley-Hicks, Megan – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2020
This paper highlights an investigation of how middle school students responded to a theatre performance designed to portray science as a humanistic and relatable endeavour that youth -- similar to the youth in the audience -- engage in during their everyday lives. The play included in this study was generated as a part of a design research project…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Middle School Students, Theater Arts, Cooperation
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Aivelo, Tuomas; Huovelin, Suvi – Environmental Education Research, 2020
Citizen science is a valuable tool in environmental and formal education in creating scientific knowledge for the researchers and facilitating learning and fostering a positive relationship toward the environment and study species. We present a case study on the Helsinki Urban Rat Project in which students surveyed rat occurrence in their own near…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Student Attitudes, Animals, Foreign Countries
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Ylizarde, Natalie Harr; Shockley, Ebony Terrell – Science and Children, 2018
Citizen science provides an opportunity for students to capture data both locally and globally while supporting the real-time work of scientists seeking to understand natural events. In this article, the authors present a project-based approach that explores climate at home and abroad to help develop elementary students' local-to-global…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes, Grade 3
Bracey, Georgia L. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
With the continued emphasis in the United States on science teaching reform as a way to increase science learning and the scientific literacy of all, the integration of informal science learning activities like citizen science is emerging as a possible way to enhance formal science teaching and learning. There is a limited but growing number of…
Descriptors: Teacher Motivation, Teacher Attitudes, Science Instruction, Scientific Literacy
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Ramm, Julia G.; Dorscheid, Gabryel L.; Passos, Camila. G.; Sirtori, Carla – Journal of Chemical Education, 2018
The general objective of this study was to analyze the development and implementation process of a waste management project (WMP) at a public school in the city of Porto Alegre in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, that offers a course for chemistry technicians. To that end, an initial diagnostic analysis of the commonly produced waste from…
Descriptors: Program Development, Wastes, Sanitation, Science Instruction
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Kelemen-Finan, Julia; Scheuch, Martin; Winter, Silvia – International Journal of Science Education, 2018
Despite the rising popularity of Citizen Science (CS) projects, there is little empirical evidence for effects on learning outcomes, particularly when young people are involved. It is also often not clear how CS projects are linked to science education (SE) research. The aim of this study was to examine biodiversity CS projects in an outdoor…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Citizen Participation, Biodiversity
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Chubko, Nadezhda; Morris, Julia E.; McKinnon, David H.; Slater, Eileen V.; Lummis, Geoffrey W. – Issues in Educational Research, 2019
This research is based on the "Journey through Space and Time" (JTST) educational astronomy project for primary and junior high school science curricula in Australia, which seeks to improve students' astronomy content knowledge through science inquiry. The focus of the current project is on the learning needs of students for whom the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Wuttisela, Karntarat; Wuttiprom, Sura; Phonchaiya, Sonthi; Saengsuwan, Sayant – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2016
Peer assessment was one of the most effective strategies to improve students' understanding, metacognitive skills, and social interaction. An online tool, "Designing for Learning and Portfolio (D4L+P)", was developed solely to support the T5 (tasks, tools, tutorials, topicresources, and teamwork) method of teaching and learning. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peer Evaluation, Science Projects, Student Projects
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