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A Science-Technology-Society (STS) Critical Issues Course for General Studies Natural Science Credit: The Evaluation of a Pilot Offering.
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Rye, James A.; And Others – 1995
This paper describes an evaluation by two science educators of the pilot offering of an interdisciplinary critical issues course in Science, Technology, and Society (STS) designed to fulfill the natural science general degree requirements at a major university. This social science general studies course is an STS interdisciplinary course that…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Interviews
An Exploratory Study of the Concept Map as a Tool To Facilitate the Externalization of Students' Understandings about Global Atmospheric Change in the Interview Setting.
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Rye, James A.; Rubba, Peter A. – 1996
The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of two different types of post-instruction concept interviews: one that did and one that did not embed a concept mapping process as means of eliciting students' post-instruction conceptual understandings about the nature of, source of, and problems caused by chlorofluorocarbons…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Concept Mapping, Global Warming, Interviews