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Jungnam Kim; Hyunhee Kim; Hong Ryun Woo; Ching-Chen Chen; Sangmin Park – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
Due to the model minority myth, scant attention has been given to the college preparation of Asian American (AA) students. Using the national sample of High School Longitudinal Study of 2009-2013, this study examined associations among student-counselor interactions, school connectedness, and college enrollment of AA students. The results of the…
Descriptors: Asian American Students, Misconceptions, Stereotypes, College Preparation
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Tsitsipis, Georgios; Stamovlasis, Dimitrios; Papageorgiou, George – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2012
In this study, the effect of 3 cognitive variables such as logical thinking, field dependence/field independence, and convergent/divergent thinking on some specific students' answers related to the particulate nature of matter was investigated by means of probabilistic models. Besides recording and tabulating the students' responses, a combination…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Logical Thinking, Creative Thinking, Misconceptions
Kustos, Paul Nicholas – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Student difficulty in the study of probability arises in intuitively-based misconceptions derived from heuristics. One such heuristic, the one of note for this research study, is that of representativeness, in which an individual informally assesses the probability of an event based on the degree to which the event is similar to the sample from…
Descriptors: Sample Size, Self Efficacy, Heuristics, Likert Scales
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Salta, Katerina; Tzougraki, Chryssa – Research in Science Education, 2011
The students' performance in various types of problems dealing with the conservation of matter during chemical reactions has been investigated at different levels of schooling. The participants were 499 ninth grade (ages 14, 15 years) and 624 eleventh grade (ages 16, 17 years) Greek students. Data was collected using a written questionnaire…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, Chemistry, Problem Solving, Correlation