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The Perceptions of Students in Secondary School in Regard to Evolution-Based Teaching: Acceptance and Evolution Learning Experiences--The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Alanazi, Fayadh Hamed – Research in Science Education, 2021
This study investigates how Grade 12 secondary school students in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) perceive and respond to teaching and learning on evolution. A mixed-methodology approach including a questionnaire and semi-structured interviews was used. The study shows that Saudi students are aware of the great significance that has been…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Secondary School Students, Grade 12, Evolution
Exploring Science Teachers' Affective States: Pedagogical Discontentment, Self-Efficacy, Intentions to Reform, and Their Relationships
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Kahveci, Ajda; Kahveci, Murat; Mansour, Nasser; Alarfaj, Maher Mohammed – Research in Science Education, 2018
Teachers play a key role in moving reform-based science education practices into the classroom. Based on research that emphasizes the importance of teachers' affective states, this study aimed to explore the constructs pedagogical discontentment, science teaching self-efficacy, intentions to reform, and their correlations. Also, it aimed to…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Science Teachers, Teacher Role, Educational Change
An Analysis of Activities in Saudi Arabian Middle School Science Textbooks and Workbooks for the Inclusion of Essential Features of Inquiry
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Aldahmash, Abdulwali H.; Mansour, Nasser S.; Alshamrani, Saeed M.; Almohi, Saeed – Research in Science Education, 2016
This study examines Saudi Arabian middle school science textbooks' coverage of the essential features of scientific inquiry. All activities in the middle school science textbooks and workbooks were analyzed by using the scientific inquiry "essential features" rubric. The results indicated that the essential features are included in about…
Descriptors: Science Activities, Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Textbooks
Rethinking the Theory and Practice of Continuing Professional Development: Science Teachers' Perspectives
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Mansour, Nasser; EL-Deghaidy, Heba; Alshamrani, Saeed; Aldahmash, Abdulwali – Research in Science Education, 2014
The aim of this study was to investigate science teachers' views of continuing professional development (CPD) provision in Saudi Arabia and science teachers' perspectives of the CPD contextual issues that have an impact on putting the learning emerging from the CPD programmes into practice. The study used mixed methods (open-ended questionnaires…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Faculty Development, Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes