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Creator:: Huntsberger, John Paul
Abstract:: Acquisition of divergent-productive thinking skills by using elementary science materials constitutes the basic idea of this experiment. The data collected was used to determine statistically if the materials had a significant role in inducing such skills. The Ss were fifth-grade students obtained from two public elementary schools in Oregon. Those...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Daugs, Donald Roger
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to statistically evaluate the influence of student placement at reading level by means of an informal reading inventory in one kind of elementary science materials. The materials were written at five levels of reading difficulty to better meet the reading ability spread found in...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: science content and overall problem solving ability in a study involving 81 fifth grade pupils

Creator:: Hoover, John Michael
Abstract:: Purpose of the Study: The purpose of this investigation was to measure some of the effects of an elementary science program, the Science Curriculum Improvement Study (SCIS) on science achievement of certain sixth grade students. Important to the problem was how the SCIS students compared with students exposed to a...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: theories to good teaching. The Effects of the Science Curriculum Improvement Study (SCIS) on Science

Creator:: Fick, Donald Leonard
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ELEMENTARY SCIENCE STUDY UNITS ON:DIVERGENTPRODUCTIVE THINKING AND NONVERBAL COGNITIVE ABILITIES Abstract

Creator:: Hartman, Brian D.
Abstract:: Recent state and national standards have increased the interest in engineering at the K-12 level. Science standards, in particular, have begun to make the case for including engineering throughout the K-12 scope of study. Despite the increased attention to engineering, the characteristics and uniqueness of the field of engineering are...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: the social and cultural embeddedness of science as well as the difference between theories and laws

Creator:: Ray, Brian Daniel
Abstract:: The purpose was to gain information about the determinants of student behavior with respect to laboratory (lab) and non-laboratory (non-lab) science learning activities. Fishbein and Ajzen's (1975) theory of reasoned action was used to investigate students' salient beliefs, correlations between determinants of intention, and the relative weights of determinants of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: science/technology-related social issues, and decision making skills (National Science Teachers

Creator:: Stronck, David Richard
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: of Study and Textbooks Grades 1-9 published by the National Science Teachers Association (73, p. 17

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