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Kilner, William Cary – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Freshmen with declared life-science majors typically matriculate with a determination to succeed. However, inadequately-prepared students are easily overwhelmed and at risk of abandoning their aspirations for a STEM career. The investigator designed and taught weekly recitations for approximately 850 students during a five-year span, and…
Descriptors: Science Education, Chemistry, College Freshmen, STEM Education
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Mugaloglu, Ebru Z.; Bayram, Hale – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2010
This study aims to establish a viable structural model of prospective science teachers' nature of science (NOS) views, which could be used as an analytical tool for understanding the complex relationships between prospective teachers' conceptions of NOS and factors possibly affecting their conceptions. In order to construct such a model, likely…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Scientific Principles, Academic Achievement, Science Process Skills