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Direct linkBedell, Kristin Dana – ProQuest LLC, 2023
"Citizen science" popularly refers to a participatory approach in which lay persons voluntarily contribute data toward scientific enterprise. Although citizen science may provide unique opportunities for pre-college students to engage in data-intensive science practices, little is known about whether or how citizen science interacts with…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Epistemology, Decision Making, Student Participation
Justin R. Andersson – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Science education in the United States has endured substantial reform due to national needs for a bolstered, more diverse science, technology, engineering, and mathematics workforce. Recent reform efforts call for students to be engaged in scientific inquiry through the practices of scientists and engineers. Opportunity gaps exist in science…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Fairs, Extracurricular Activities, Females
Jennifer D. Hooper – ProQuest LLC, 2022
My dissertation is a pre-mid-post-test, quantitative research design, including surveys and written assessments, to answer these research questions: 1. How do students' science mindset vary over time when engaged in science inquiry activities? Is there a difference between male and female students? 2. Is there a relationship between 7th grade…
Descriptors: Correlation, Gender Differences, Self Concept, Middle School Students
Price, Elizabeth Lamond – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) call upon K-12 science teachers to provide authentic science and engineering practices which deepen understanding of core ideas and crosscutting concepts (NGSS Lead States, 2013). Probeware technology provides exposure to these scientific practices; however, there is a disconnect between the frequency…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Middle School Students, Outcomes of Education, Case Studies
Mayeur, Paul Anthony – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation looks at the effects of an educator-scientist partnership on the creation of an inquiry based science lesson for the middle school classroom. The lesson was initially created by a scientist following their science research, but changed as the scientist began working with teachers. The changes in the lesson show that scientists…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Scientists, Partnerships in Education, Secondary School Science
Birmingham, Daniel J. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
School science continues to fail to engage youth from non-dominant communities (Carlone, Huan-Frank & Webb, 2011). However, recent research demonstrates that informal science learning settings support both knowledge gains and increased participation in science among youth from non-dominant communities (Dierking, 2007; Falk et al., 2007; HFRP,…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Science Education, Females, Learner Engagement
