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Demircioglu, Gokhan – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2009
This study examined whether the application of conceptual change texts are effective before or after the instruction on 10th grade students' conceptual understanding and alternative conceptions about acids and bases. The study was conducted with 76 10th grade students from three classes of a chemistry course taught by the same teacher. One of the…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Achievement Tests, Chemistry
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Kocoglu, Zeynep; Ozek, Yesim; Kesli, Yesim – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
Although the benefits of blended learning have been well documented in educational research, relatively few studies have examined blended learning in language teacher education. This study discusses a blended learning approach for a teacher training program designed for in-service English language teachers, and investigates its effectiveness by…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Educational Research, Language Teachers, Inservice Teacher Education
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Sari, Mediha; Sari, Sezen; Otunc, Mine Suat – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2008
The main purpose of this study is to investigate devotion to democratic values and conflict resolution abilities of elementary school students. In the direction of this general purpose, the level of the students' devotion to democratic values and conflict resolution abilities were investigated by the Devotion to Democratic Values Scale (DDVS) and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Social Behavior, Measures (Individuals), Democratic Values
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Shen, C.; Tam, H. P. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2008
Using 3 waves of the TIMSS data, this study investigates the relationship between 8th-graders' mathematics and science achievement and their self-perceptions on these 2 subjects. For within-country data, there is generally a positive relationship between students' achievement and the following 3 measures of their self-perception: how much they…
Descriptors: Science Achievement, Academic Standards, Correlation, Mathematics Achievement
Kiliçkaya, Ferit; Çokal Karadas, Derya – Online Submission, 2009
The study investigated the effect of note-taking on comprehension of lectures by 44 undergraduate EFL students who are in the first year of their undergraduate level in the Department of Foreign Language Education in Middle East Technical University. The participants were divided into two groups, namely experimental and control groups. The…
Descriptors: Notetaking, Listening Comprehension, Lecture Method, Undergraduate Students
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Topal, Giray; Oral, Behcet; Ozden. Mustafa – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2007
Aromaticity concept is given incorrect or incomplete to the student in secondary education and knowledge based on this basic concept has been caused to another misconception in future. How are the achievement levels relating to the comprehension of various characteristics of aromatic compounds for the first and third grade students attending…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Organic Chemistry, Misconceptions, Secondary School Students
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Turkmen, Lutfullah; Darcin, Emine Selcen – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2007
The purpose of this study was to determine the knowledge levels of popular biotechnological issues of Turkish science and elementary teacher candidates. A questionnaire was administered during 2006-2007 school term to 336 students pursuing their education in the departments of science and elementary education in two Turkish universities. The…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Education Majors, Measures (Individuals), Biotechnology
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Bayrak, Bekir; Kanli, Uygar; Kandil Ingeç, Sebnem – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2007
In this study, the research problem was: "Is the computer based physics instruction as effective as laboratory intensive physics instruction with regards to academic success on electric circuits 9th grade students?" For this research of experimental quality the design of pre-test and post-test are applied with an experiment and a control…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Control Groups, Experimental Groups, Student Attitudes
Bayrak, Bekir; Kanli, Uygar; Ingec, Sebnem Kandil – Online Submission, 2007
In this study, the research problem was: "Is the computer based physics instruction as effective as laboratory intensive physics instruction with regards to academic success on electric circuits 9th grade students?" For this research of experimental quality the design of pre-test and post-test are applied with an experiment and a control…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement, Physics
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Ramazan, Basturk – Hacettepe University Journal of Education, 2007
The purpose of this study is to examine the appointment procedure of the teachers employed in public schools in Turkey. Specifically, this study explores the correlation between the pre-service teachers' Civil Servant Selection Examination (KPSS) performance and their "cognitive ability" represented by Student Selection Examination (OSS)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Cognitive Ability, Investigations
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Rotberg, Iris C. – Educational Leadership, 2006
The current preoccupation in the United States with test-based accountability is founded on a set of faulty assumptions--about education practices elsewhere in the world, about international test score comparisons, and about the extent to which test scores are valid indicators of the quality of education or the state of the economy. For example,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Testing, Standardized Tests, Scores
Kilic, Ziya; Kaya, Osman Nafiz; Dogan, Alev – Online Submission, 2004
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of scientific discussions based on student-constructed pre- and post-laboratory concept maps on students' attitudes toward chemistry laboratory in the university general chemistry. As part of instruction, during the first four laboratory sessions, students were taught how to construct and…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Concept Mapping, Investigations
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