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Summers, Mike; Childs, Ann – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2007
Conceptions of sustainable development were elicited using a questionnaire completed by three cohorts of postgraduate students starting a secondary science teacher-training course (N = 123). Qualitative responses were analysed in three ways: (i) development of categories to capture features of sustainable development; (ii) scrutiny of individual…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Science Teachers, Sustainable Development, Questionnaires
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Rodrigues, Susan – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2006
Teaching and learning science through the use of familiar contexts has been advocated for several decades. Many take the use of context in science lessons to mean the use of resource materials that involve common scenarios or themes, or activities. This paper reviews a lesson identified by a teacher as a lesson taught in context. The data…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Science Education, Science Teachers, Discourse Analysis
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Methen, Amena Al; Wilkinson, William J. – Research in Science and Technological Education, 1986
Discusses a study in Kuwait which focused on students' ability to pick out appropriate teaching behaviors and teacher personality characteristics. Responses from high school students (N=210) corresponded closely with findings from similar perception studies. (ML)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Perception, Science Education, Science Teachers
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Aghadiuno, M. C. K. – Research in Science and Technological Education, 1995
Proposes a model to explain secondary students' achievement in chemistry that uses the following predictor variables: students' attitude towards chemistry, understanding of science, scientific attitude, traditional cosmological world-view, cognitive style, and teachers' attitude towards the teaching of chemistry and understanding of science.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Chemistry, Evaluation, Foreign Countries
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Khine, Myint Swe; Fisher, Darrell – Research in Science and Technological Education, 2004
The purpose of this study was to examine interpersonal behaviour in psychosocial learning environments and to determine the associations between science students' perceptions of their interactions with their teachers, the cultural background of teachers and their attitudinal outcomes. A sample of 1188 students completed the Questionnaire on…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Classroom Environment, Science Teachers