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Factors Influencing Postsecondary STEM Students' Views of the Public Communication of an Emergent Technology: A Cross-National Study from Five Universities
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Gardner, Grant E.; Jones, M. Gail; Albe, Virginie; Blonder, Ron; Laherto, Antti; Macher, Daniel; Paechter, Manuela – Research in Science Education, 2017
Recent efforts in the science education community have highlighted the need to integrate research and theory from science communication research into more general science education scholarship. These synthesized research perspectives are relatively novel but serve an important need to better understand the impacts that the advent of rapidly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Postsecondary Education, STEM Education
Israeli Students' Conceptions of Science and Views about the Scientific Enterprise.
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Tamir, Pinchas – Research in Science and Technological Education, 1994
Representative samples of 10-, 14-, and 17-year-old Israeli students, about 2,000 in each, responded to background questionnaires and a battery of tests and scales concerning their conceptions of the nature of science and views about the scientific enterprise. A comparison is made between Israeli, British, and U.S. students. (LZ)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Science and Society, Science Education
The Consistency of the Opinions of 12th-Grade Biology Pupils on the Desirability of Biotechnologies.
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Dreyfus, Amos; Roth, Zvi – Research in Science and Technological Education, 1986
This study examined 12th-grade biology students' opinions and beliefs on the desirability of the use and/or development of various biotechnologies. Describes the development of and presents results from the three questionnaires employed in the study. Includes a listing of the 15 biotechnology topics investigated in the study. (ML)
Descriptors: Biology, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Foreign Countries, Science and Society
Non-Science Oriented Students and the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
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Ben-Zvi, Ruth – International Journal of Science Education, 1999
Describes the development, implementation, and evaluation of a module called "Energy and the Human Being" within the framework of a program aimed at non-science-oriented students in senior high schools in Israel. Finds that students' attitudes toward science were positive and their understanding of the scientific concepts involved was…
Descriptors: Chemical Reactions, Energy, Energy Conservation, Foreign Countries
The STS Outlook Profiles of Israeli High-School Students and Their Teachers.
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Ben-Chaim, David; Zoller, Uri – International Journal of Science Education, 1991
Presents the STS (science/technology/society) outlook profiles of 546 eleventh graders from Israeli high schools within the existing science, nonscience, and technological tracks in terms of cognition, behavior, and literacy. Findings indicate significant differences between the profiles for students regarding behavior and literacy but not for…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Cognitive Measurement, Foreign Countries, Grade 11
Impact of Science-Technology Learning Environment Characteristics on Learning Outcomes: Pupils' Perceptions and Gender Differences
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Doppelt, Yaron – Learning Environments Research, 2004
Science and technology are connected to each other and are mutually inspiring. The science-technology curriculum for junior-high school in Israel suggests that teachers integrate these subjects. In addition, this curriculum calls for infusing thinking competencies into the learning subjects and for implementing alternatives in assessment methods…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Intervention, Student Attitudes, Questionnaires