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Direct linkBalgopal, Meena M.; Wallace, Alison M.; Dahlberg, Steven – Environmental Education Research, 2012
Being an ecologically literate citizen involves making decisions that are based on ecological knowledge and accepting responsibility for personal actions. Using writing-to-learn activities in college science courses, we asked students to consider personal dilemmas that they or others might have in response to how human choices can impact coastal…
Descriptors: Education Majors, Undergraduate Students, Elementary Education, American Indian Studies
Peer reviewedStuessy, Carol L.; Rowland, Paul M. – Educational Research Quarterly, 1990
Locus of control as a potentially inhibiting factor in the acquisition of science-related attitudes was studied using 60 tenth grade biology students, 89 eleventh and twelfth grade chemistry students, and 61 college elementary education majors. Correlations between Rotter's Internal-External Scale and seven subscales of the Test of Science-Related…
Descriptors: Biology, Chemistry, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Douglass, Claudia B. – Improving College and University Teaching, 1979
Three groups of students--science majors, preservice elementary teachers, and all other nonmajors--are compared on the basis of their attitude toward biology, their self-concept of their ability in biology, and their cognitive style. Preservice teachers entered the course with the lowest scores but showed the greatest gains over the testing…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Attitude Change, Biology, Cognitive Style
