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Boz, Burçak; Erbilgin, Evrim – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 2015
When teaching transformations of functions, teachers typically have students vary the coefficients of equations and examine the resulting changes in the graph. This approach, however, may lead students to memorise rules related to transformations. Students need opportunities to think deeply about transformations beyond superficial observations…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology
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Yucel, A. Seda – Hacettepe University Journal of Education, 2008
This study has been carried out to develop a tool to measure the level of anxiety of students studying in the 10th and 11th grades of high schools in Turkey. The scale has been created by the application of a pool of items consisting of 45 sentences based on student opinions and expert advice to 365 students and the branching of the results with…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Scientific Attitudes, Attitude Measures, Foreign Countries
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Nakiboglu, Canan; Tekin, Berna Bulbul – Journal of Chemical Education, 2006
This study represents the first attempt to elucidate and detail the types of misconceptions high school students hold relating to basic concepts and topics of nuclear chemistry. A diagnostic multiple-choice test was administered to 157 tenth-grade students (15-16 years old) and the data were analyzed. The results show that high school students…
Descriptors: High School Students, Misconceptions, Chemistry, Radiation
Oz, Huseyin – Online Submission, 2007
This article reports on a study that investigated metacognitive knowledge or beliefs about language learning of 470 Turkish EFL learners in secondary education. The primary aims of the study were to explore what beliefs Turkish students in secondary education held about learning English as a foreign language (EFL), how their belief systems were…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Factor Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries