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Jay K. Solomonson; Trent Wells; Mark S. Hainline; Bryan D. Rank; Matthew Wilson; Skyler P. Rinker; Steven Chumbley – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2022
Agricultural teacher education programs are designed to prepare competent teachers who are ready to teach students in public schools. One aspect of agricultural teacher education is ensuring teachers are ready to lead instruction in various aspects of school-based agricultural education (SBAE), such as teaching students various technical…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Agricultural Skills
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Wells, Nancy M.; Myers, Beth M.; Todd, Lauren E.; Barale, Karen; Gaolach, Brad; Ferenz, Gretchen; Aitken, Martha; Henderson, Charles R.; Tse, Caroline; Pattison, Karen Ostlie; Taylor, Cayla; Connerly, Laura; Carson, Janet B.; Gensemer, Alexandra Z.; Franz, Nancy K.; Falk, Elizabeth – International Journal of Science Education, 2015
This randomized controlled trial or "true experiment" examines the effects of a school garden intervention on the science knowledge of elementary school children. Schools were randomly assigned to a group that received the garden intervention (n?=?25) or to a waitlist control group that received the garden intervention at the end of the…
Descriptors: Gardening, Science Education, Low Income, Elementary School Students
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Dolan, Erin L.; Lally, David J.; Brooks, Eric; Tax, Frans E. – Science Teacher, 2008
In this article, the authors describe a large-scale research collaboration, the Partnership for Research and Education in Plants (PREP), which has capitalized on publicly available databases that contain massive amounts of biological information; stock centers that house and distribute inexpensive organisms with different genotypes; and the…
Descriptors: Investigations, Partnerships in Education, Internet, Educational Resources
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Kuruppu, Pali U.; Moore, Debra C. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2008
This article reports the findings of a study conducted to examine the types of information used by graduate students in the fields of biological and agricultural sciences at Iowa State University (ISU). The citations of doctoral dissertations submitted in nine agriculture and biological science subject fields (crop production and physiology;…
Descriptors: Information Utilization, Periodicals, Citation Analysis, Doctoral Dissertations