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Creator:: Abd-El-Khalick, Fouad S.
Abstract:: This study assessed the influence of three history of science (HOS) courses on college students and preservice science teachers' conceptions of the nature of science (NOS), and examined whether participants who entered the investigated HOS courses with a conceptual framework consistent with current NOS views achieved more elaborate NOS understandings....
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Morrison, Judith A.
Abstract:: A large amount of research has been conducted that establishes that students of all ages hold conceptions about a variety of science topics that are not in line with accepted scientific beliefs. These preconceptions have been identified in a variety of ways in research situations; this study focused on how...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: be used to represent any conception that a student holds before the teacher begins the specific

Creator:: Morrell, Patricia Drozdowski
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to examine fifth, seventh, and tenth graders' attitudes toward school and classroom science by means of questionnaires and interviews. In particular, the study hoped to determine (a) if a relationship existed between these two attitudes, (b) what relationship, if any, grade level, gender, ethnicity,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: achievement, none have considered the possibility of a relationship between attitude and student personal

Creator:: Holmes, Frank L.
Abstract:: A teacher may say, "I have twenty years of experience," but just what does it mean? This study suggests explanations for the meaning of "Experience," not by looking at the number of years in a classroom, but at what teachers did in those years that could make the teaching experience...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: effects of teacher growth on student learning and education and the extent to which teachers are able to

Creator:: Liu, Shiang-Yao
Abstract:: This exploratory investigation aimed to identify preservice science teachers' conceptions of the nature of science (NOS), and worldviews that represent their culturally dependent beliefs about the world, in the context of Taiwan. The interrelationships between the responses elicited from both the assessments of NOS understandings and worldviews were examined. Participants...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Impinge on Student Science Learning ........ 27 Research on Nonwestern Science Teacher Views of Science

Creator:: Wolfer, Adam J.
Abstract:: Previous research has shown a gap between chemistry students' conceptual and computational understandings of chemistry topics such as gas laws, equilibrium, and reactions. This qualitative study examined the conceptual and computational understandings of stoichiometry of college students enrolled in a large lecture Introductory Chemistry course. Factors that might influence students'...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Student volunteers (n=6) were interviewed to gauge their understanding of stoichiometry. Students

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