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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Yalcinkaya, Eylem; Boz, Yezdan; Erdur-Baker, Ozgur – Science Education International, 2012
The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of case-based learning (CBL) over traditionally designed chemistry instruction (TDCI) on 10th grade students' perceived motivation about chemistry as a school subject. Two classes were randomly selected from a high school. One class was assigned to be an experimental group and the other…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Student Motivation, Chemistry
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Tekes, Hanife; Gonen, Selahattin – Science Education International, 2012
The purpose of the present study was to examine how the use of V-diagrams one of the learning techniques used in laboratory studies in experiments conducted regarding the 10th grade lesson unit of "waves" influenced students' achievements. In the study, a quasi-experimental design with a pretest and posttest control group was used. The study was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Grade 10, Visual Aids
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Soobard, Regina; Rannikmae, Miia – Science Education International, 2011
The goal of this study was to develop an instrument for assessing grade 10 and 11 student's levels of scientific literacy in the areas of problem solving and decision making. In concentrating on determining the scientific literacy of gymnasium level students, it was taken as a first; previous international studies like PISA have focused on ninth…
Descriptors: Opinions, International Studies, Scientific Literacy, Grade 11
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Feierabend, Timo; Eilks, Ingo – Science Education International, 2010
This paper describes the development of different lesson plans dealing with authentic and controversial socio-scientific issues in the framework of climate change. These lesson plans orient themselves along the socio-critical, problem-oriented approach to science teaching. They deal with the use of bioethanol as an alternative fuel and with the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Lesson Plans, Action Research, Chemistry
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Green, Whitfield; Naidoo, Devika – Science Education International, 2008
The post-apartheid National Physical Science Curriculum was implemented for the first time in South Africa in grade 10 during 2006. A variety of new textbooks for grade 10 have been published. This study was a comparative analysis of three popular textbooks, one prepared to support the previous curriculum, and two prepared for the new curriculum.…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Racial Segregation, Physical Sciences, Foreign Countries
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Apostolides, Themos; Valanides, Nikos – Science Education International, 2008
The study investigated tenth-, eleventh-, and twelfth-grade students' alternative ideas relating to the motion of a body travelling in the field of gravity with an initial horizontal velocity. The sample of the study consisted of 40 tenth-grade students, and 33 and 40 eleventh-grade students that attended different sections of upper secondary…
Descriptors: Physics, Motion, Secondary School Students, Science Instruction