The purpose of this study was to: (a) develop a comprehensive plan consisting of a series of logical steps based upon recommendations derived from psychometric, measurement, and research literature and utilize the plan to develop a Likert-type scale to provide valid and reliable measures of the attitude of preservice and...
The major purpose of this study was to determine
the extent to which home economics teachers know and
use content area reading strategies in the classroom.
The study looked at a variety of personal and school
variables to determine their relationship to the
teachers' knowledge and use of content area...
Middle School represents a period of transition for the
students. This transition is present not only in physical change,
intellectual change, and emotional change, but also in terms of
the type of reading instruction these students receive. One
approach to reading instruction moves from a direct approach
focusing on specific...
National statistics indicate that as many as 23
million adults in the United States are illiterate and
another 40 million lack literacy skills necessary to
function effectively or on more than a narrow basis in this
society. People without literacy skills or who have only
marginal reading ability find themselves...
This investigation was designed to compare the growth in attitudes
toward science and the critical thinking abilities of high
school juniors in chemistry to juniors not enrolled in chemistry.
One hundred and fifty-three chemistry students and 149 non-chemistry
students were randomly selected to participate in the study.
Criterion tests used...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the
effectiveness of an expository advance organizer on the
achievement of students in a general chemistry course.
The subjects included 181 first year college students
enrolled in 12 sections of general chemistry at the
Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy, Thailand. The subjects
were...