NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 7 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Snežana Lješnjak; Danka Cakovic; Andrej Šorgo – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2024
This study aimed to explore the familiarity with and opinions toward Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) among Montenegrin students at the end of their basic school years and upon entering upper-secondary school. The participants of the study were gathered in 2022, and the data were recorded via an online survey platform. The results were…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Familiarity, Knowledge Level, Thinking Skills
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Trommler, Friederike; Gresch, Helge; Hammann, Marcus – International Journal of Science Education, 2018
The teleological bias, a major learning obstacle, involves explaining biological phenomena in terms of purposes and goals. To probe the teleological bias, researchers have used acceptance judgement tasks and preference judgement tasks. In the present study, such tasks were used with German high school students (N = 353) for 10 phenomena from human…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Etiology, Preferences, High School Students
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Breen, Sinead; O'Shea, Ann; Pfeiffer, Kirsten – Teaching Mathematics and Its Applications, 2016
We report here on students' views of example generation tasks assigned to them in two first year undergraduate Calculus courses. The design and use of such tasks was undertaken as part of a project which aimed to afford students opportunities to develop their thinking skills and their conceptual understanding. In interviews with 10 students, we…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, College Mathematics, Calculus
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Avarogullari, Muhammet; Kolcu, Nurten – International Education Studies, 2016
The purpose of this study is to determine how students in a south-western province of Turkey employ historical significance which is one of the second order concepts of historical thinking. 44 11th and 12th grade students participated in the study. They were asked to identify the most significant 10 persons in the history and provide their reasons…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Historical Interpretation, Value Judgment
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Mustofa; Yuwana, H. Setya – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
Learning literature should be taken to instill recognition, familiarity and enjoyment of literature as a vehicle for character education. Learning literature must be packaged properly so that students interested in compose competence by developing literature learning models. In an effort to assist students in understanding the success of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Discourse Analysis, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Ghent, Cynthia; Parmer, Giavanna; Haines, Sarah – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2013
This study sought to determine whether a secondary level curricular model based on enhancing knowledge and awareness of global forest issues would have an effect on students' self-perceived knowledge of forest issues, actual content knowledge of these issues, and pro-environmental attitudes. The study instrument is the secondary module…
Descriptors: Learning Modules, Environmental Education, Environmental Research, Forestry
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Vatanasakdakul, Savanid; Aoun, Chadi – International Journal of Educational Management, 2011
Purpose: The demand for Accounting Information Systems (AIS) knowledge has increased exponentially over the past two decades, but studying AIS has not proved easy for many accounting students. The aim of the study is to understand the challenges accounting students face in studying AIS through investigation of the factors which may be contributing…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Information Systems, Least Squares Statistics, Accounting