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The Examination of Female Students' Experiences in Socioscientific Issue-Based Science Classrooms
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Busra Uslu – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Most educational studies highlight the gender gap in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Female students' interest and success in STEM are behind their male peers, especially in chemistry and physics classes. Females are less likely to pursue a STEM field in college. In addition, few women want to be scientists and engineers.…
Descriptors: Females, Student Experience, STEM Education, Gender Differences
Influence of Student Values, Knowledge, and Experience and Socioscientific Topic on Measures of High-School Student Socioscientific Reasoning
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Cian, Heidi – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Socioscientific issues (SSIs) are used to guide science instruction by presenting scientific real-world problems as multifaceted, consisting of social as well as scientific components that must be considered when constructing solutions to the issues. Using SSIs in classrooms can support students in developing scientific literacy by enhancing their…
Descriptors: High School Students, Secondary School Science, Science Process Skills, Science and Society
A Schema Theory Analysis of Students' Think Aloud Protocols in an STS Biology Context
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Quinlan, Catherine Louise – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation study is a conglomerate of the fields of Science Education and Applied Cognitive Psychology. The goal of this study is to determine what organizational features and knowledge representation patterns high school students exhibit over time for issues pertinent to science and society. Participants are thirteen tenth grade students…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 10, Science and Society, Protocol Analysis
The Effects of a Socioscientific Issues Instructional Model in Secondary Agricultural Education on Students' Content Knowledge, Scientific Reasoning Ability, Argumentation Skills, and Views of the Nature of Science
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Shoulders, Catherine Woglom – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of a socioscientific issues-based instructional model on secondary agricultural education students' content knowledge, scientific reasoning ability, argumentation skills, and views of the nature of science. This study utilized a pre-experimental, single group pretest-posttest design to assess…
Descriptors: Science and Society, Science Instruction, Secondary School Science, Agricultural Education
Assessing the Impact Participation in Science Journalism Activities Has on Scientific Literacy among High School Students
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Farrar, Cathy – ProQuest LLC, 2012
As part of the National Science Foundation Science Literacy through Science Journalism (SciJourn) research and development initiative (http://www.scijourn.org; Polman, Saul, Newman, and Farrar, 2008) a quasi-experimental design was used to investigate what impact incorporating science journalism activities had on students' scientific literacy.…
Descriptors: Information Seeking, Program Effectiveness, Accuracy, High School Students
Where Did You Come From? Where Will You Go? Human Evolutionary Biology Education and American Students' Academic Interests and Achievements, Professional Goals, and Socioscientific Decision-Making
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Schrein, Caitlin M. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
In the United States, there is a national agenda to increase the number of qualified science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM) professionals and a movement to promote science literacy among the general public. This project explores the association between formal human evolutionary biology education (HEB) and high school science class…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Secondary School Science, High School Students, Evolution