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Developing Critical Thinking Skills towards Biology Course Using Two Active Learning Strategies
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Alsarayreh, Raghad Shaher – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2021
This study aimed to identify the impact of teaching critical thinking skills on the attitude towards biology courses among female students of tenth grade in Jordan using two active learning strategies. To achieve this, the Critical Thinking Scale and the Attitude towards Biology Scale was used, and its validity and consistency were verified. The…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Skill Development, Biology
The Effectiveness of Using Mind Mapping on Tenth Grade Students' Immediate Achievement and Retention of Electric Energy Concepts
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Bawaneh, Ali Khaled – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2019
The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of the Mind Maps Teaching Method and the Conventional Teaching Method on tenth graders' immediate achievement and retention of electric energy concepts in Jordan. Participants (N=111 students; M=52, F=59) were randomly selected from Bani Kenanah region, north of Jordan. One group was assigned to…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Grade 10, High School Students, Science Achievement
The Effect of Contextual Material on Evolution in the Jordanian Secondary-School Curriculum on Students' Acceptance of the Theory of Evolution
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De Baz, Theodora; El-Weher, Mahmoud – Journal of Biological Education, 2012
The purpose of this study was to detect the extent to which contextual material of a unit on "The origin and evolution of living organisms" included in the high-school biology curriculum in Jordan affected students' acceptance of the theory of evolution. The participants of this study consisted of 107 tenth-grade students randomly drawn…
Descriptors: Evolution, Biology, Foreign Countries, Secondary Education
Prediction/Discussion-Based Learning Cycle versus Conceptual Change Text: Comparative Effects on Students' Understanding of Genetics
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Al khawaldeh, Salem A. – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2013
Background and Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the comparative effects of a prediction/discussion-based learning cycle (HPD-LC), conceptual change text (CCT) and traditional instruction on 10th grade students' understanding of genetics concepts. Sample: Participants were 112 10th basic grade male students in three classes of…
Descriptors: Genetics, Science Instruction, Secondary School Science, Biology