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Cavicchi, Elizabeth – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2008
A teacher and a college student explore experimental science and its history by reading historical texts, and responding with replications and experiments of their own. A curriculum of ever-widening possibilities evolves in their ongoing interactions with each other, history, and such materials as pendulums, flame, and resonant singing tubes.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Science History, Scientific Research, Experiments
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Hurtado, Sylvia; Cabrera, Nolan L.; Lin, Monica H.; Arellano, Lucy; Espinosa, Lorelle L. – Research in Higher Education, 2009
Targeting four institutions with structured science research programs for undergraduates, this study focuses on how underrepresented students experience science. Several key themes emerged from focus group discussions: learning to become research scientists, experiences with the culture of science, and views on racial and social stigma.…
Descriptors: Race, Self Efficacy, Focus Groups, Scientists