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Cala, Jacqueline M. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This qualitative descriptive study aimed to explore how community college students describe their motivations and reasoning when learning about controversial science topics at a southwestern community college. Anti-science attitudes have been increasing globally, but is not fully understood. Two research questions were developed using the theory…
Descriptors: Science Education, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Scientific Attitudes, Community College Students
Kara, Melike – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The aims of this study were to investigate how upper-elementary-grade students compare the volume of rectangular prisms of equal volume (specifically, students' noticing and reasoning for invariance of volume and coordination of the three linear dimensions of rectangular prisms) and how students' levels of sophistication in volume measurement…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Mathematics, Grade 4