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Showing 1 to 20 of 96 for “"Scientific Inquiry"”.
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Authentic Scientific Inquiry, Student Engagement, and Transformational Learning: Are They Related?
… to develop, execute, and share an authentic scientific inquiry using techniques offered by the Canadian Light Source (CLS). Canada’s synchrotron is a national science research facility that generates intense beams of x-ray and infra-red light to probe the structure and function of matter. The …
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Preparing California Public Middle School Students For Scientific Inquiry into Environmental Issues
… do not sufficiently address the importance of inquiry-based studies, limiting the scope of possibilities in public education. Studies show that middle school students build a deeper understanding of conceptual science and its application if they have opportunities to apply their knowledge …
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Scientific inquiry in high school science learning: Collaborative research activities applying scientific visualizations
This research utilized a multi-case, longitudinal study design to examine the theory development activities and high performance tool use of four teams of high school students and teachers. The science learning and research activities of these four high school teams were followed from the start of …
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An Investigation of the Practice of Scientific Inquiry in Secondary Science and Agriculture Courses
… study was to investigate the practice of scientific inquiry in two secondary biology classes and one agriculture class from different schools in different communities. The focus was on teachers' interests and intentions for the students' participation in inquiry, the voices contributing to …
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Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning: Evaluation of the Use of Scientific Inquiry to Support Argumentative Writing in the Middle School Science Classroom
… Council, 2012, p. 71). The NGSS focus on inquiry necessitates students’ use of argument, particularly in writing, to communicate their knowledge and scientific findings and to develop an understanding of scientific practice. The purpose of this teacher action research study is to evaluate …
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Science and Poetry in Imperial Rome: Manilius, Lucan, and the Aetna
… dissertation examines the relationship between scientific inquiry and hexameter poetry at Rome in the first century CE. It focuses on three poetic texts: Manilius' Astronomica, Lucan's Civil War, and the anonymous Aetna. It argues that despite generic and thematic differences, these works …
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Epistemological Authenticity in Science Classrooms
A scientifically literate individual understands important characteristics of both the nature of scientific knowledge and the activity that produces it, scientific inquiry. (NRC, 1996; AAAS, 1993) In support of these goals the National Science Education Standards (NRC, 1996) envisions science …
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The connective service : a research laboratory for the University City Science Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
… setting for activities that support the ideas of scientific inquiry. The seven story building on a street corner in West Philadelphia is divided into horizontal zones or realms. The ground floor is dedicated to retail trade allowing for the continuous net of city activity to pass through the …
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The Effects Of The Teacher's Use Of Guided Inquiry In The Fifth Grade Classroom
… THE EFFECTS OF THE TEACHER'S USE OF GUIDED INQUIRY IN A FIFTH GRADE SCIENCE CLASSROOM. INQUIRY IS SUPPORTED BY THE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL(2000), AND INDICATES THAT ALL STUDENTS SHOULD DEVELOP THE ABILITIES NECESSARY TO DO SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY AND DEVELOP UNDERSTANDINGS ABOUT SCIENTIFIC …
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Per Mutations
… the relationship between emotional literacy and scientific literacy. The author uses ballet, grizzly bears, radioactive isotopes, infamous scientists, genetic mutations, the Apollo missions, and other subjects to hold beside her own experiences so that she might better understand how to cope with …
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African American Females 'Perceptions of Their Science Classroom Learning Enviornment And Its Impact on Their Attitudes Toward Science
… scales that were measured are Attitudes toward Scientific Inquiry and Enjoyment of Science lessons. Attitudes were high in Attitudes toward Scientific Inquiry because many of the females believed that science is based on experimentation and engaging in inquiry to understand the world, …
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A study of life sciences projects in science talent quest competitions in the Western Cape, South Africa, with special reference to scientific skills and knowledge
… Life Sciences. The curriculum emphasises that scientific skills are best developed within the context of an expanding framework of knowledge. ESKOM Expos for Young Scientists (i.e., science talent quest competitions) provide such a context. The present study focuses on educational outcomes of …
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An Exploration Of Middle School Science Teachers' Understandings And Teaching Practice Of Science As Inquiry
… 2008). As a result, if the U.S. is to remain scientifically and technologically competitive in the world, it is necessary to increase our efforts to incorporate scientific practices associated with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics into the science classroom. </p> <p>Middle …
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Understanding, Evaluating, and Diagnosing Undergraduate Student Difficulties with Graph Choice and Construction
… 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 graph choice and construction that were …
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Developing in situ instrumentation to monitor anthropogenic change
… limited spatiotemporal resolution constrains scientific inquiry. To help fill the technological gap, this dissertation presents the development of instrumentation for the ocean inorganic carbon system and microplastics. The first few chapters present the development process of CSPEC, a …
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Developing In Situ Instrumentation to Monitor Anthropogenic Change
… limited spatiotemporal resolution constrains scientific inquiry. To help fill the technological gap, this dissertation presents the development of instrumentation for the ocean inorganic carbon system and microplastics. The first few chapters present the development process of CSPEC, a …
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A Study of Inhomogeneities and Anisotrophies In Superconductors via Ginzburg-Landau Type models
… interest and remains a challenging area of scientific inquiry. Most superconductors of practical utility are of type-II, i.e., they allow the penetration of magnetic fields in the form of tubes of flux that are referred to as "vortices." Motion of these vortices due to, e.g., applied …
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Towards explanatory pluralism in cognitive science
… I attempt to clarify whether the sort of scientific explanations proposed for various cognitive phenomena at different levels of analysis or abstraction differ in significant ways from the explanations offered in other areas of scientific inquiry, such as biology, chemistry, or even …
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Disciplinarity and literate activity in science: tracing pathways of becoming, writing and practice
… scientists, how they came to engage in scientific inquiry on-the-job and across various sites of engagement. Furthermore, I sought to understand how science is taken up in classrooms that are enacting curriculum undergirded by these nationally legislated standards. Specifically, this …
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Analysis of scientific argumentation in two physical chemistry classrooms using the POGIL approach
… in argumentation has shown to model authentic scientific inquiry as well as promote development of content knowledge. However, less emphasis has been placed on facilitating argumentation in upper level undergraduate courses, though it is important for evaluating undergraduate curricula to …
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