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Showing 1 to 20 of 622 for “"Science education"”.
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Inquiry, Efficacy, and Science Education
… classrooms. Many secondary and post-secondary science instructors see the valuable link between students asking questions and the development of critical thinking. Inquiry-based instruction provides student opportunities to ask questions, design methods of investigation, gather information, and …
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Gender Equity in Science Education
<p>The dearth of females in high-level science courses and professions is a well-documented phenomenon in modem society. Inequality in science instruction is a crucial component to the under representation of females in science. This paper provides a review of current literature published …
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Explaining Gendered Participation in Computer Science Education
Amongst scientific fields, computer science (CS) is the only one in which the percentage of women undergraduates has decreased since the 1980s; in the US and Canada, this percentage has hovered around 15%. Since the 1990s, a great deal of effort and resources have been put toward trying to improve …
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Working across cultures in indigenous science education
… communication with a background in education. From the interviews a series of narratives were written which revealed their experiences and understandings particularly about their border crossings, culture brokerage and opinions regarding teaching indigenous students and teaching them …
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Adaptive serious games for computer science education
Serious games have the potential to effectively engage students to learn, however, these games tend to struggle accommodating learners with diverse abilities and needs. Furthermore, customizing a serious game to the individual learner has historically required a great deal of effort on the part of …
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Improving Introductory Computer Science Education with DRaCO
<p>Today, many introductory computer science courses rely heavily on a specific programming language to convey fundamental programming concepts. For beginning students, the cognitive capacity required to operate with the syntactic forms of this language may overwhelm their ability to formulate a …
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Elementary Science Education: Dilemmas Facing Preservice Teachers
… obstacles to best practice in elementary science teaching include: (a) preparing prospective teachers to understand and cope with change processes, (b) to understand the nature of teaching and schooling, and (c) to understand the nature of teacher education itself through explicit …
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Object lessons: sensory science education 1830-1870
… things provided sensory introductions to the sciences in mid-nineteenth-century Britain. The 'object lesson', I argue, was a crucial genre of elementary educational practice and literary representation in this period. It emphasised that children acquired knowledge directly through sensory …
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Inquiring into inquiry learning in secondary science education.
… of inquiry lab activities in a secondary science classroom. The study begins by reflecting on what leads the teacher-researcher to convert traditional, step-bystep lab activities into student-centered inquiries by turning them inside-out and gains momentum as positive student-participant …
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A case study in refactoring computer science education
… of teaching and learning held by computer science lecturers in a single school of computer science in a third level educational institute in Ireland. The study first investigated how lecturers considered their practice to align or diverge from their beliefs and conceptions and the …
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Teaching methods in Science Education in Finland and Namibia
This study compares the teaching methods in science education in Finland and Namibia to understand the preferred teaching methods in both educational systems and the reasons underlying these preferences. It focuses on the preferred teaching methods of selected middle school science teachers of …
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Multiplex relationships and the impact on rural science education
1 PDF file (viii, 117 pages)
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Increasing Female Enrollment in High School Computer Science Education
… played a vital role in the field of computer science and information technology (IT), developing some of the most essential components of modern IT” (Purdue University Global, 2018). Despite their prominence and achievements in these career fields, computer science has experienced a noticeable …
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LiveDataLab: A cloud-based platform for data science education
… and engineers. However, learning practical data science skills requires hands-on experience with large, real-world datasets, which is difficult to offer at scale due to hardware and cost limitations. In this thesis, we present LiveDataLab, a novel cloud-based solution enabling deployment of …
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Enlight : a projected augmented reality approach to science education
… new possibility for innovative learning tools in education. This thesis explores the application of a projected augmented reality system and its use in science education. Through this work, we provide some brief insights into the potential and challenges of using the projection augmented model in …
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RobotWorld : a simulation environment for introductory computer science education
… Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1999.
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Examining kindergarten teachers' beliefs and practices in science education
… beliefs and their teaching practices in science education through a qualitative case study. This study addresses these topics by exploring two key issues: First, it illustrates how kindergarten teachers think about teaching science to the students. Second, this study demonstrates how the …
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