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Showing 1 to 20 of 106 for “"Education--Sciences"”.
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Examining the effect of motivational intervention on reading expectancies for success and task values of rural high school students : a quantitative study.
… a regular basis, much less daily (Institute of Education Sciences, n.d.; National Literacy Trust, 2024). The simultaneous rise in teenage digital consumption and pleasure reading rejection has negative implications for a range of outcomes. Reading habits impact cognitive development (Li et al., …
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Only connect: a phenomenographic study exploring stakeholders' conceptions of information literacy across an international middle school community.
… background in the information, management and education sciences. Using recorded focus group discussions stakeholders including students, parents, teachers, library staff, IT personnel, administration and leadership shared their perceptions of the information context as a stepping stone to …
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The Influence of Neighborhood, Family, School, and Student Dimensions of Social Capital on Academic Achievement: An Integrated Theoretical Framework
Current federal education law places the responsibility of the academic achievement of students with schools while ignoring other social factors that might influence the educational outcomes of students. Students are part of a complex social system that both enable and constrain their development …
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The Influence of Neighborhood, Family, School, and Student Dimensions of Social Capital on Academic Achievement: An Integrated Theoretical Framework
Current federal education law places the responsibility of the academic achievement of students with schools while ignoring other social factors that might influence the educational outcomes of students. Students are part of a complex social system that both enable and constrain their development …
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Literally unfinished : a qualitative single case study exploring the factors impacting Texas teachers' responses to unfinished learning in reading due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
… instigated unfinished learning (Institute of Education Sciences, 2023). In Texas, the 2020–2021 STAAR reading test showed an overall learning loss of -0.12, which equated to just over three months of loss due to the COVID-19 pandemic (Crowe & Field, 2021). This study explored the factors …
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Associating High School Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Course-Taking with Future Earnings for Non-STEM Employed High School Graduates
… measured quantitatively and is included in the Education Longitudinal Survey of 2002 (ELS:2002) data set, an ideal source of information to evaluate this issue (Institute of Education Sciences, 2019b).</p> <p>Method</p> <p>This quantitative study used a correlational design and a longitudinal …
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Off the Rural Back Road: Describing the Experiences of Rural Students who Enrolled at an Urban 4-Year University
… the U.S. were in rural areas (U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, 2013). These rural school districts serve a quarter of the students who attend public schools in the U.S. (Schiess & Rotherham, 2015). </p> <p>Rural students have …
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A non-hardened preventative approach to deterring school crime and violence: the significance of threat assessment teams in schools across the United States
… as interpersonal relationships with students, educational, and non-educational stakeholders (i.e. the human element) have largely been overshadowed. One non-hardened example includes school threat assessment teams, which may be referred to as a formal group of people and processes that …
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How African American College Graduates Who Attended An Early College Describe The Benefits
… in North Carolina describe the benefits of this educational experience. There are many different types and structures of the Early College Program concept, that is, programs where high school students earn college credits. Students taking courses at a community college may leave with an …
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THE TEACHING OF CHEMISTRY BY MEANS OF VIDEOCASSETTES EMPLOYING COMPUTER GRAPHICS.
THE TEACHING OF CHEMISTRY BY MEANS OF VIDEOCASSETTES EMPLOYING COMPUTER GRAPHICS.
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Mid Infrared Investigation of Two Isomers of the CO-N2O van der Waals Complex
Infrared spectra in the carbon monoxide CO stretch region (~2150 cm−1) and in the nu3 asymmetric stretch region of N2O (~2223 cm−1) are assigned to the previously unobserved O-bonded form of the CO-N2O dimer (“isomer 2”). This van der Waals complex has a planar skewed T-shaped structure like that …
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Thermodynamic Formation Conditions for Propane Hydrates in Equilibrium with Liquid Water
Accurate knowledge for hydrate formation conditions of pure propane in the presence of liquid water is important to avoid flow assurance issues in processing, storage and transportation of liquefied petroleum gas, as well as modeling hydrate based separation processes involving type II hydrates. …
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Talk and Community: The Place of Reporting in a Life Sciences Laboratory
"This study takes a practice-oriented perspective to investigate the laboratory as a community of practice, focusing upon the ""activity"" of interaction as the overall unit of analysis. Ethnographic materials (involving observation, interviews, conversations, and activity logs) and discourse …
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1. Progress Toward the Synthesis of Vancosamine Using a Tandem [4+2]/[3+2] Cycloaddition. 2. Discussion Boards and Pre-Lecture Quizzes in Organic Chemistry Courses
Format and number of attempts were varied in online pre-lecture quizzes administered to a first semester non-majors organic chemistry lecture course. Student quiz performance and post-quiz assessment shows significant differences in mastery of material and class preparedness with format and number …
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Using Contrasting Pedagogical Approaches to Detect Differential Item Functioning in the Third International Mathematics and Science Study
Confirmatory factor analyses, based on substantive classification, were conducted on the multiple choice items utilized by TIMMS researchers. The substantive classifications were made based on whether an item could be solved using mathematical reasoning abilities or whether it required the use of …
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Negotiating a Space to Teach Science: Stories of Community Conversation and Personal Process in a School Reform Effort
I conclude that people interested in school reform should consider the following ideas as they work with teachers to implement pedagogical and curricular changes. (1) Teaching is a personal/individual process that takes place within a larger community. This leads to a complex context for working …
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The Relationships of Gender, Ethnicity, Past Performance, Pedagogy, and Access to a Role Model/mentor With College Student Attitudes Toward Science
The results of this study add to the literature regarding attitudes toward science in freshmen students at a large midwestern university. Additional discussion and research is warranted. Specific recommendations for practice and future research are included in the document.
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Elementary Science Education: Dilemmas Facing Preservice Teachers
… and (c) to understand the nature of teacher education itself through explicit discourse about these topics. In addition, development of greater partnerships among university faculty and schools though Partnership School models and other community-building efforts can afford prospective …
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Empirical Accuracy and Consistency in College Students' Knowledge of Classical Astronomy
"This study focuses on how college students explain basic astronomical phenomena and the nature of those explanations, moving beyond existing research of astronomy misconceptions and shedding new light on the nature of knowledge representation and the stability of knowledge. Fifty college students …
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Educational Research Visualizations: Scientific Warrants in Early-Phase *Research
… of advanced visualization methodologies into education in order to create appropriate new forms of research and thereby improving the diffusion and adoption of effective innovations. Beginning with an historical analysis of how meaning making via visualization systems has become an essential …
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