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Baytelman, Andreani; Loizou, Theonitsa; Hadjiconstantinou, Salomi – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2023
This study researches relationships between 12th-grade students' epistemological beliefs towards science and their conceptual understanding of evolution by natural selection. Forty-two 12th-grade students in a suburban high school in Cyprus, who participated in a biology course, completed measures of their: (1) epistemological beliefs towards…
Descriptors: Grade 12, High School Seniors, Beliefs, Scientific Concepts
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Valanides, Nicolaos – Educational Research and Evaluation (An International Journal on Theory and Practice), 1997
Differences related to formal reasoning abilities were studied with 227 12th graders in different sections (science, economics, and a unified section of common mathematics and science curricula) of four schools in Cyprus. Observed achievement differences did not correspond to differences found with cognitive measures. Results cast doubt on the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Ability, Curriculum, Economics Education