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Diego Ardura; Ángela Zamora; Alberto Pérez-Bitrián – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2023
Secondary school students' early choices related to staying in the science track define their future decisions to choose chemistry at college. This investigation aims at analyzing the role of gender in students' causal attributions to choose or abandon chemistry when it first becomes optional in the Spanish educational system. Our analyses…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Secondary School Students, Physics, Chemistry
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Ardura, Diego; Zamora, Angela; Perez-Bitrian, Alberto – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2021
The present investigation aims to analyze the effect of motivation on students' causal attributions to choose or abandon chemistry when it first becomes optional in the secondary education curriculum in Spain. Attributions to the effect of the family and to the teacher and classroom methodology were found to be common predictors of the choice to…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Secondary School Science, Secondary School Students
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Ardura, Diego; Pérez-Bitrián, Alberto – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2019
The main goal of the present investigation was to analyze the effect of motivation towards physics & chemistry on achievement in secondary school students. We focused our interest on the comparison between students who chose the subject when becoming optional in the Spanish educational system and those who opted out. Our analyses uncovered the…
Descriptors: Science Achievement, Student Motivation, Physics, Chemistry
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Ardura, Diego; Pérez-Bitrián, Alberto – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2018
The present study aims to analyse the effect of motivational variables and previous academic achievement on students' future choice of chemistry once this subject becomes optional in the educational system. Toward this goal, the translation and adaptation of the Science Motivation Questionnaire II (SMQII) has been undertaken in our investigation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Student Motivation, Science Interests
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Crujeiras-Pérez, B.; Jiménez-Aleixandre, M. P. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2017
This paper examines the process of high school students' planning investigations in the chemistry laboratory across two consecutive academic years in terms of their actions and their progress. The context is a set of five inquiry-based laboratory tasks in which participants (9th and 10th graders, 14-15 and 15-16 years of age) are required to plan…
Descriptors: High School Students, Learner Engagement, Longitudinal Studies, Foreign Countries