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Garrecht, Carola; Reiss, Michael J.; Harms, Ute – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
Students' argumentation skills are considered a central tool to contribute to scientific controversies in the science classroom. Scientific controversies of social relevance (socioscientific issues; SSI) are subject to multiple viewpoints that are often rooted in diverse disciplines. However, the relationship between issue familiarity and…
Descriptors: Science and Society, Persuasive Discourse, Familiarity, Controversial Issues (Course Content)
Bakke, Ingrid Bårdsdatter; Hooley, Tristram – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2022
Norway is reforming its career guidance system. This article explores how these reforms are experienced in schools around Norway, and attends to the way in which the concept of "career" is understood. There is a difference between an "everyday" and a scholarly understanding of the concept, between seeing it as hierarchical, or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career Guidance, Careers, Adolescents
Mitsopoulou, Athina G.; Pavlatou, Evangelia A. – Education Sciences, 2021
The aim of this study is to investigate the predictive factors that predispose secondary school students' interest in studying STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields in higher education. For this purpose, an already existing questionnaire was used and modified properly, according to the Greek educational system. The survey…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Student Interests, STEM Education, Higher Education
Miech, Richard A.; Johnston, Lloyd D.; Patrick, Megan E.; O'Malley, Patrick M.; Bachman, Jerald G.; Schulenberg, John E. – Institute for Social Research, 2023
Monitoring the Future (MTF) is designed to give such attention to substance use among the nation's youth and adults. It is an investigator-initiated study that originated with, and is conducted by, a team of research professors at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. Since its onset in 1975, MTF has been funded continuously…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Grade 8, Grade 10, Grade 12
Miech, Richard A.; Johnston, Lloyd D.; O'Malley, Patrick M.; Bachman, Jerald G.; Schulenberg, John E.; Patrick, Megan E. – Institute for Social Research, 2022
Monitoring the Future (MTF) is designed to give attention to substance use among the nation's youth and adults. It is an investigator-initiated study that originated with, and is conducted by, a team of research professors at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. Since its onset in 1975, MTF has been funded continuously by…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Grade 8, Grade 10, Grade 12
Miech, Richard A.; Johnston, Lloyd D.; O'Malley, Patrick M.; Bachman, Jerald G.; Schulenberg, John E.; Patrick, Megan E. – Institute for Social Research, 2021
Monitoring the Future (MTF) is designed to give attention to substance use among the nation's youth and adults. Since its onset in 1975, MTF has been funded continuously by the National Institute on Drug Abuse -- one of the National Institutes of Health -- under a series of peer-reviewed, competitive research grants. The 2020 survey, reported…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Grade 12, Grade 8, Grade 10
Kasot, Nazim; Özbas, Serap – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2015
The aim of this study is to assess the egoistic, altruistic and biospheric awareness of the consequence of high school students regarding the loss of bio-diversity, then comparing the results on the basis of some independent variables (gender, class and family income). The research data were collected from 884 ninth and tenth grade high school…
Descriptors: High School Students, Biodiversity, Environmental Education, Conservation (Environment)
Bokosmaty, Sahar; Sweller, John; Kalyuga, Slava – American Educational Research Journal, 2015
Research has demonstrated that instruction that relies heavily on studying worked examples is more effective for less experienced learners compared to instruction emphasizing problem solving. However, the guidance associated with studying some worked examples may reduce the performance of more experienced learners. This study investigated…
Descriptors: Geometry, Problem Solving, Expertise, Teaching Methods
Dawson, Vaille; Carson, Katherine – Teaching Science, 2013
This study investigated 438 Year 10 students (15 and 16 years old) from Western Australian schools, on their understanding of the greenhouse effect and climate change, and the sources of their information. Results showed that most students have an understanding of how the greenhouse effect works, however, many students merge the processes of the…
Descriptors: Climate, Environmental Education, Secondary School Students, Investigations
Ozkan, Recep – Educational Research and Reviews, 2013
Within this work in which it has been aimed to indicate the attitudes of High School Students to environment, indication of the attitudes of high school students in Nigde has been regarded as the problem matter. This analysis has the qualification of survey model and techniques of questionnaire and observation have been used. The investigation has…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, High School Students, Investigations, Grade 10
Yoon, Sae Yeol; Suh, Jee Kyung; Park, Soonhye – International Journal of Science Education, 2014
Korean students have shown relatively little interest and confidence in learning science, despite being ranked in the top percentile in international evaluations of academic achievement in science such as the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study. Although research indicates a positive relationship between student perceptions of…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Scientific Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Educational Practices
Öz, Hüseyin; Efecioglu, Emine – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2015
This article reports the findings of a study that investigated the role of graphic novels in teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) to International Baccalaureate students (aged 15-16) in TED Ankara College Foundation Private High School. Two intact 10th grade classes were randomly assigned to the control and experimental groups who studied…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Novels, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)
Paulsen, Erik; Bru, Edvin – School Psychology International, 2008
The main objective of this study was to gain knowledge as to how social passivity in school is related to the grades pupils achieve. The relation between social passivity and school grades received in eight different subjects, varying according to familiarity to teachers, demands of cooperation with peers and demands for public display of learning…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Grades (Scholastic), Familiarity, Cooperation
Sharp, Kimberlee A. – Online Submission, 2009
This study examined the perspectives of a sample of Appalachian middle and high school social studies teachers regarding the teaching of controversial current events. Specifically, the survey ascertained the teachers' familiarity with school district administrative policies regarding the teaching of controversial current events, their perceptions…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Current Events, Familiarity, Skill Development