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CHARTER SCHOOLS AND INCLUSIVE SCIENCE EDUCATION: THE CONCEPTUAL CHANGE AND ATTITUDES OF STUDENTS WITHOUT DISABILITIES
(2014-03-06)
As a philosophy and educational approach, inclusive education provides opportunities for all students to have effective conceptual understanding and positive social attitudes (Idol, 2006). With inclusion, educators incorporate ...
Relationships among epistemological beliefs, implementation of instruction, and approaches to learning in college chemistry.
(1998)
Results of the Learning Approach Questionnaire indicated that meaningful and rote learning approaches are unrelated approaches to learning. Type of instruction was not correlated with learning approach. However, the ...
Educational technology usage and needs of science education in Turkey.
(2005)
Integrating technology into teaching and learning in Turkish education is a slow, time-consuming process that requires substantial levels of support and encouragement and requires patience and understanding. In light of ...
A case study of systemic curricular reform: A forty-year history.
(2005)
What follows is a description of the development of a particular inquiry-based elementary school science curriculum program and how its theoretical underpinnings positively influenced a school district's (K-12) science ...
An examination of the effect of teacher read-aloud on adolescent attitudes and learning in science.
(2007)
A repeated measures analysis suggested both teacher read-aloud and silent reading were appropriate for student learning but results do not support either method as superior over the other. Multiple regression analyses were ...
Conceptual development and retention within the learning cycle.
(1998)
Qualitative analyses were used to examine how students' concept development is mediated by classroom discussions and the students' small cooperative learning group. It was discovered that there was a correlation between ...
Master and novice secondary science teachers' understandings and use of the learning cycle.
(2000)
The learning cycle paradigm had been used in science classrooms for nearly four decades. This investigation seeks to reveal how the 1earning cycle, as originally designed, is currently understood and implemented by teachers ...
Scaffolded problem-solving, learning approaches and understanding of concepts in an introductory college physics class.
(2000)
This study was an exploration of students' use of scaffolded problems as part of their homework in an introductory calculus-based physics class. The study included consideration of the possible relationship of students' ...
An investigation of meaningful understanding and effectiveness of the implementation of Piagetian and Ausubelian theories in physics instruction.
(1998)
This research suggested that Piaget and Ausubel used different terminology to describe learning yet these theories are similar. Further research is needed to validate this premise and validate the blending of the two theories.
Relationships among reasoning ability, meaningful learning, and computer-based instruction on students' understanding of Newton's laws.
(1999)
The purpose of this study was to better understand the nature and extent of students' understanding of Newtonian physics. This study investigated differential effects of three different instructional treatments (computer ...