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Students' Representations of the Atomic Structure--The Effect of Some Individual Differences in Particular Task Contexts
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Papageorgiou, George; Markos, Angelos; Zarkadis, Nikolaos – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2016
The current study aims to investigate students' representations of the atomic structure in a number of student cohorts with specific characteristics concerning age, grade, class curriculum and some individual differences, such as formal reasoning and field dependence/independence. Two specific task contexts, which were designed in accordance with…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Chemistry, Molecular Structure, Nuclear Energy
High School Students' Informal Reasoning on a Socio-Scientific Issue: Qualitative and Quantitative Analyses
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Wu, Ying-Tien; Tsai, Chin-Chung – International Journal of Science Education, 2007
Recently, the significance of learners' informal reasoning on socio-scientific issues has received increasing attention among science educators. To gain deeper insights into this important issue, an integrated analytic framework was developed in this study. With this framework, 71 Grade 10 students' informal reasoning about nuclear energy usage…
Descriptors: Grade 10, Science Instruction, Nuclear Energy, Science Education
Attitudes toward Nuclear Energy: One Potential Path for Achieving Scientific Literacy.
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Dulski, Richard E.; And Others – Science Education, 1995
Identifies the attitudes of secondary school students toward several science-related topical areas (i.e., nuclear energy, environmental issues, energy concepts, science concepts, space exploration, and metrication) for the purpose of enhancing students' attitudinal development toward science-related topical areas. Discusses respondents attitude…
Descriptors: Energy Education, Grade 10, Grade 9, Nuclear Energy
A Technique for Evaluating the Relationships between Science-Related Attitudes in Secondary-School Students.
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Dulski, Richard E.; Raven, Ronald J. – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1994
A study concurrently identified significant relationships between the attitudes of high school students toward nuclear energy, environmental issues, energy concepts, science concepts, space exploration, and metrication topical areas. Surveys indicated there were significant concurrent attitudinal relationships between specific science-related…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Energy, Environment, Grade 10