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Learning Benefits of Secondary School Students' Inquiry-Related Curiosity: A Cross-Grade Comparison of the Relationships among Learning Experiences, Curiosity, Engagement, and Inquiry Abilities
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Wu, Pai-Hsing; Kuo, Che-Yu; Wu, Hsin-Kai; Jen, Tsung-Hau; Hsu, Ying-Shao – Science Education, 2018
This study addresses the issue of curiosity-driven inquiry learning by examining the interplay among students' inquiry-related curiosity, laboratory engagement, and inquiry abilities and investigates how their learning experiences would associate with such interplay. We employed structural equation modeling to analyze data collected from 920…
Descriptors: Correlation, Inquiry, Laboratory Experiments, Science Instruction
A Multilevel Study on Trends in Malaysian Secondary School Students' Science Achievement and Associated School and Student Predictors
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Mohammadpour, Ebrahim – Science Education, 2012
This article aims to investigate variations in science achievement for secondary school students across the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) assessments and to examine the relations of several student- and school-level factors with achievement. The data were obtained from 5,577, 5,314, and 4,466 Malaysian eighth…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Science Achievement, Secondary School Students, Grade 8
Item Readability and Science Achievement in TIMSS 2003 in South Africa
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Dempster, Edith R.; Reddy, Vijay – Science Education, 2007
This study investigated the relationship between readability of 73 text-only multiple-choice questions from Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2003 and performance of two groups of South African learners: those with limited English-language proficiency (learners attending African schools) and those with better…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged Youth, Sentences