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Vilia, Paulo; Candeias, Adelinda A. – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
The importance of attitudes and other variables of the affective domain in education is acknowledged for a long time. In this study, we used an attitude questionnaire to survey 498 Portuguese 9th-grade students to determine the predictive ability of the attitudes towards the discipline of Physics-chemistry on school achievement. Possible gender…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Student Attitudes, Factor Structure, High School Students
Teixeira-Dias, Jose J. C.; Pedrosa de Jesus, Helena; Neri de Souza, Francisle; Watts, Mike – International Journal of Science Education, 2005
In Portugal, the number of students in higher education increased from 80,000 in 1975 to 381,000 in 2000 (a change from 11% to 53% in the age group 18-22), meaning a major change in the diversity of student population with consequences well known and studied in other countries. The teaching of chemistry at the University of Aveiro, for the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Motivation, Learning Processes
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Gil, Victor M. S. – International Journal of Science Education, 1988
Devised is a test involving chemical examples to establish to what extent college chemistry students recognized and assessed the explanatory content of statements presented in the form of justifications. Several results are discussed. Several test items are included. (Author/YP)
Descriptors: Chemistry, College Science, Comprehension, Inferences
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Seddon, G. M.; Pedrosa, M. A. – International Journal of Science Education, 1988
Examined whether and how the quality of students' explanations of chemical phenomena was affected by changing the method of giving the question and answer between the spoken and written formats. Concluded that there was no difference between the performance of students using any of these combinations of formats. (Author/YP)
Descriptors: Chemistry, Class Activities, Classroom Communication, Classroom Research
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Pereira, Mariana P.; Pestana, Maria Elisa M. – International Journal of Science Education, 1991
The pencil-and-paper assignment "Represent water in its three states using a model" was given to pupils (n=227) from eighth to twelfth grades. The findings show that the dominant model used was the space filling type; movement of particles was indicated by a minority of pupils; size of the model changed when drawn in different states.…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, Junior High Schools