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Brooks, Eric Dwayne – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study investigated whether participation in the Partnership for Research and Education in Plants (PREP), a long-term authentic plant research project, in conjunction with explicit verses implicit instruction can change high school students' conceptions of the nature of science (NOS). The participants included a total of 134 students comprised…
Descriptors: Intervention, High School Students, Research Projects, Semi Structured Interviews
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Morse, Judith; Ruggieri, Margaret; Whelan-Berry, Karen – American Journal of Business Education, 2010
The goal of this research project is to investigate whether the use of a personal response system ("clickers") in the classroom increases student participation and discussion and its impact on the quality of the discussion in undergraduate accounting courses. While many studies conducted regarding the use of clickers rely on student…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Accounting, Research Projects, Investigations
Wicklein, Robert; Mativo, John – National Center for Engineering and Technology Education, 2009
The purpose of this research project was to use an experimental design research methodology to compare learning and attitudinal effects of two different design instructional strategies on randomly selected and assigned 11th and 12th grade students. Through the use of a common technological based problem, students were guided through a design…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Student Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Research Design