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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"science curricula"”.
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A Survey of Seventh and Eighth Grade Science Curricula in Georgia. Is There a Need for Specific Objectives?
… purpose of this study was to investigate the science curricula being used in Georgia in the seventh and eighth grades. This information was used to determine any inconsistencies and the need for more specific guidelines at the State level to improve any transfer problems of students. The …
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Place-Based Education and Teaching about Marin County Birds: Curriculum Development for Teachers
… for inspiring teachers to create dynamic curricula that energizes the student. PBE curriculum typically encompasses all traditional subjects and entails hands-on classroom and field studies utilizing the natural world and local community. The purpose of this literature review is to …
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Technology Affordances and Curriculum Flexibility in Higher Education Blended Learning
… on the flexibility of statistics and data science curricula, and students' satisfaction with learning. While blended learning is often perceived as a flexible learning approach, its correlation with flexibility lacks substantial evidence in existing literature. This study contends that …
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Teacher Perceptions of Inquiry and STEM Education in Bangladesh
This dissertation reports lower secondary science teachers perceptions of current practice in Dhaka, Bangladesh concerning inquiry and STEM Education in order to establish a baseline of data for reform of science education in Bangladesh. Bangladesh has been trying to incorporate inquiry-based …
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The place of cataloguing and classification in the curricula of South African universities
… classification in the library and information science curricula of South African universities today, and to determine whether, in compiling the syllabus comprising bibliographic description and subject analysis, new developments and changes are being taken into consideration. With this in mind, …
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Debug Tutor: Automated Deliberate Debugging Practice for Undergraduate Programmers
… is often not taught systematically in computer science curricula. This thesis presents the Debug Tutor, an automated debugging tutor for explicit debugging practice at the college level. The Debug Tutor’s suite of exercises drill particular microskills essential for competent debugging, and it …
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An Application of a Revised Morrissett's Curriculum Analysis System to a High School English Program
… and revisions. The "System for Analyzing Social Science Curricula" prepared by Irving Morrissett (in collaboration with William Stevens, Jr.) was obviously intended for use in the social studies area. Some semantic changes were necessary in order to convert the system to language arts but most of …
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Innovation in science curriculum a Sierra Leone case study
Recent studies in philosophy of science and learning theory have identified elements that add a socio-cultural dimension to science curriculum debates. These suggest that effective science education must take account of the culture in which it is being offered. Accordingly, the present study …
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The Impact of Online Professional Development on Science Teachers' Self-Efficacy and Outcome Expectancy Beliefs for Teaching Engineering Practices
… on integrating engineering practices into science education, many science teachers are underprepared to meet these demands due to limited training and resources (Katehi et al., 2009; Brophy et al., 2008). Teachers often lack confidence in their ability to teach engineering concepts, making …
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Choosing identities: the politics and practices of classroom discourse on reproductive and genetic technologies
… genetic screeningtengineering and cloning. Yet science curricula and pedagogy in Ireland rarely opens out to address these perspectives on genes and embryos. Six schools with students aged from 15-17 years were presented with two central activities that brought social and moral relevance to …
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Development of the Characteristics of Science Questionnaire (CSQ): Assessing Student Knowledge of the Utah State Secondary Science Core Intended Learning Outcome 6 on the Nature of Science
Teaching students about the nature of science is an important and necessary part of secondary science curricula. The Utah State Office of Education has provided specific guidelines called intended learning outcomes (ILOs) to teachers in the state. The ILOs are based on the national standards …
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Transforming Learning in Science Classrooms: A Blended Knowledge Community Approach
In this study, I examined how science curricula designed based on the Knowledge Community and Inquiry (KCI) model (Slotta, 2007) would foster the development of knowledge communities in secondary school science classrooms. KCI situates scaffolded inquiry activities within a collective context. In …
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Science Teachers Teaching Socioscientific Issues (Ssi): Four Case Studies
… the social, ethical, and moral aspects of science in society. The need for the inclusion of SSI into science curricula has been generally accepted, but relatively few science teachers have incorporated SSI into their courses. Most science teachers feel that their most important task by far …
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Connecting the usability and software engineering life cycles through a communication-fostering software development framework and cross-pollinated computer science courses
… is a corresponding need for appropriate computer science curricula to train the SE and UE roles about the connections between the two processes. In this dissertation, we connected the SE and UE life cycles by creating the Ripple project development environment which fosters communication between …
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The relation of certain entrance examination scores, at a land grant college, to subsequent performance of college students as reflected by quality credit averages
… of college success in the engineering and science curricula, and the results of these. are inconsistent. The best prediction, though, bi these curricula seemed to come from the Engineering and Physical Science Aptitude Test. The magnitude of success from this may be indicated by …
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The virus and the vaccine: curatorship and the disciplinary outsider
… they apply. These methods, taught in the curricula of their undergraduate programmes, promote a particular way of looking and of understanding that privileges certain characteristics over others. As students become assimilated into their respective academic communities, they become …
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Science practical work: what types of knowledge do secondary science teachers use?
The prominence of practical work in science curricula today infers that these activities offer unique learning experiences for achieving specific goals. Yet, but for a few exceptions, practical work in school science is often neglected and has not been effective in achieving the goals normally …
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