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Direct linkMichelle B. Tindall – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study investigates the challenge faced by eighth-grade students at Southern State Middle School in grasping abstract concepts within the domains of physical science, physics, and chemistry. This difficulty is manifested in their poor performance on summative assessments. A comprehensive analysis of state-provided data, in conjunction with…
Descriptors: Science Laboratories, Laboratory Experiments, Hands on Science, Summative Evaluation
Hansen, Janice – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation explored beliefs about learning from multiple related visual representations in science, and compared beliefs to learning outcomes. Three research questions were explored: 1) What beliefs do pre-service teachers, non-educators and children have about learning from visual representations? 2) What format of presenting those…
Descriptors: Science Education, Visual Aids, Visualization, Beliefs
Granshaw, Frank Douglas – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Virtual reality (VR) is increasingly used to acquaint geoscience novices with some of the observation, data gathering, and problem solving done in actual field situations by geoscientists. VR environments in a variety of forms are used to prepare students for doing geologic fieldwork, as well as to provide proxies for such experience when…
Descriptors: Expertise, Field Instruction, Field Trips, Middle Schools
Chilvers, Amanda Leigh – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Researchers have noted that mathematics achievement for deaf and hard-of-hearing (d/hh) students has been a concern for many years, including the ability to problem solve. This quasi-experimental study investigates the use of the Exemplars mathematics program with students in grades 2-8 in a school for the deaf that utilizes American Sign Language…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students
Johnson, Afra Kaletta – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this quasi-experimental study examines the effects of reading interventions for bi-lingual and bi-dialectal Broward County School District middle school children using research-based strategies combined with metacognitive and meta-comprehension frameworks. The experimental study reports findings on the effects of an 8-week…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 8, Reading Difficulties, Reading Improvement
Asay, Loretta Johnson – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Analogies are ubiquitous during instruction in science classrooms, yet research about the effectiveness of using analogies has produced mixed results. An aspect seldom studied is a model of instruction when using analogies. The few existing models for instruction with analogies have not often been examined quantitatively. The Teaching With…
Descriptors: Science Education, Logical Thinking, Concept Mapping, Science Instruction
