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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Biology students"”.
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Pretest Development for Gifted Biology Students
… areas. That subpopulation identified as gifted students has traditionally been approached with a variety of attitudes and teaching methods which may or may not have fully addressed the student's unique talents. The implementation of a comprehensive program of gifted education within the school …
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Influences On Biology Students' Acceptance Of Evolution
… investigated those variables that influence students' degreee of acceptance of evolution and determined the relative contributions of the variables to acceptance of evolution. Variables included both cultural and school factors: religious commitment, knowledge of evolution, completion of …
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Diagnosing undergraduate biology students' experimental design knowledge and difficulties
… is an important component of undergraduate biology education as it generates knowledge of biology. This dissertation addresses the challenge undergraduate educators face for assessing knowledge of experimental design in biology by examining knowledge of, and difficulties with, experimental …
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Characterising Mechanistic Reasoning of Senior Biology Students in Hong Kong
Six Year 10 biology students from two schools in Hong Kong were interviewed to give explanations about biological phenomena related to these topics: enzymes and metabolism as well as the breathing system and transport system in humans. Their responses were coded (activity, condition, entity, …
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Cellular Respiration: A Stars Science Suitcase for High School Biology Students
… intended to supplement the current high school biology curriculum in the Dallas Independent School District. The Science Suitcase includes a narrated animation, a magnetic board game and printable student handouts. The Science Suitcase will help high school students understand the broad concepts …
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Organelle Extravaganza: A Portable Science Suitable for High School Biology Students
One (or more) supplemental file(s) may have been submitted as part of the thesis approval but was not uploaded at the time of submission. The file is not available.
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The Effects of a Behavioral Metacognitive Task in High School Biology Students
… behavioral metacognitive technique on lessening students' illusions of learning. It was proposed that students' study time strategies, and consequently, final performance on a test, in a classroom setting, could be influenced positively by having students engage in metacognitive processing via …
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The Cell Membrane Science Suitcase: An Educational Module for High School Biology Students
… Science Briefcase, for high school introductory biology students. The module is part of the Science Teacher Access to Resources at Southwestern series of educational Science Suitcases, made available to teachers within the Dallas Independent School District and neighboring communities. The series …
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Light! Carbon! Action!: A Portable Science Suitcase on Photosynthesis for High School Biology Students
The file named "wuderek.pdf" is the primary dissertation file. To access the supplemental video, click on the file named "Photosynthesis Final.mp4".
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A study of high school biology students engaged in a Science-Technology-Society (STS) landfill restoration project
… purpose of this study was to observe high school students as they progressed through a Science-Technology-Society (STS) project that involved the closing of a landfill. In this STS project, students investigated the best vegetation for reseeding a closed landfill. This project was initiated …
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Virtual Fetal Pig Dissection As An Agent Of Knowledge Acquisition And Attitudinal Change In Female High School Biology Students
One way to determine if all students can learn through the use of computers is to introduce a lesson taught completely via computers and compare the results with those gained when the same lesson is taught in a traditional manner. This study attempted to determine if a virtual fetal pig dissection …
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The impact of a laptop computer assisted technology option on biology students' choice of a multi-media instructional methodology
This investigation was conducted with volunteer students in Cape Town in 1998-1999. analyses a sample of 323 students' improvement in achievement scores in physiology. The aim of this study was to explore the ,impact of the three instructional options, achievement, and preferences, on biology …
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Human genetic concept attainment in secondary biology students through the use of specifically constructed bioethical case studies and a student decision-making model
… learning genetic concepts of high school biology students. The study also sought to determine if there were a relationship between: (a) teachers' knowledge of genetics (b) student attitude towards the use of the case studies and student Decision-Making Model and student genetic concept …
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The effect of cognitive bias video instruction on high school biology student acceptance of evolution: Implications for teachers and educational leaders
… preferential thinking patterns to high school biology students' acceptance of evolution. At five urban high schools, 164 high school biology students were surveyed using a new instrument called the Cognitive Bias Assessment For Science Students – Evolution. The CBASS-E assesses both the level …
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Understanding, Evaluating, and Diagnosing Undergraduate Student Difficulties with Graph Choice and Construction
… of quantitative literacy. With undergraduate biology students increasingly involved in scientific inquiry and experimentation, they are faced with the task of choosing and creating appropriate graphical representations of their data to communicate their findings. However, difficulties with …
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General Biology Lecture and Laboratory Curriculum Outline in a Two or Four-Year College
… describing my thesis agenda of a general biology lecture and laboratory syllabus for introductory biology students. I requested the titles and authors of the general biology textbooks and laboratory manuals they were currently using, the publishers of these texts, and the edition of said …
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Statistics for Learning Genetics
… study investigated the knowledge and skills that biology students may need to help them understand statistics/mathematics as it applies to genetics. The data are based on analyses of current representative genetics texts, practicing genetics professors' perspectives, and more directly, students' …
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Student Misconceptions in Science: The Human Digestive System
Students bring their personal belief systems with them into classrooms. In the science classroom, these beliefs may be misconceptions, ideas that are not congruent with currently accepted scientific facts and theories. This study sought to identify student misconceptions as they pertained to a unit …
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