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Peer reviewedThornber, Jillian; Stanisstreet, Martin; Boyes, Edward – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 1999
Uses a free-form questionnaire to explore 10- and 11-year-old students' ideas about the nature of air pollution and its biological and physical effects. Suggests that students hold misconceptions in this area. (DDR)
Descriptors: Air Pollution, Concept Formation, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedHill, Ruaraidh; Stanisstreet, Martin; Boyes, Edward; O'Sullivan, Helen – Research in Science and Technological Education, 1998
Explores the prevalence of ideas among 16 to 19 year-old students about the application of the rapidly expanding technology of genetic engineering to food production. Findings suggest that more females were cautious about these foodstuffs than were males. Contains 20 references. (DDR)
Descriptors: Biology, Environmental Education, Food, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedBoyes, Edward; Stanisstreet, Martin – Research in Science and Technological Education, 1997
Aims to quantify the models that 13- and 14 year-old students hold about the causes of the greenhouse effect and ozone layer depletion. Assesses the prevalence of those ideas that link the two phenomena. Twice as many students think that holes in the ozone layer cause the greenhouse effect than think the greenhouse effect causes ozone depletion.…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedBoyes, Edward; Stanisstreet, Martin; Papantoniou, Vasso Spiliotopoulou – Science Education, 1999
Describes a study of Greek high school students' (n=116) perceptions of the ozone layer. Finds that students have a good understanding of the position and purpose of the ozone layer in terms of protection from ultraviolet rays, but students also hold misconceptions linking the ozone layer to the greenhouse effect and other forms of local…
Descriptors: Cancer, Earth Science, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries
