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Wei, Bing; Thomas, Gregory P. – Research in Science Education, 2006
This paper investigated the change of the Junior Secondary School Chemistry Curriculum (JSSCC) in the P. R. China over the period from 1978 to 2001. Document analysis was employed as the research method and data were collected from various versions of teaching syllabi, textbooks, and teachers' reference books published during this period. The…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Junior High Schools, Secondary School Curriculum, Secondary School Science
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Thomas, Gregory P. – Research in Science Education, 1999
Describes a teacher-researcher's investigation into barriers to student adoption of an alternative referent for learning and its consequential learning strategies in an 11th-grade chemistry class. Suggests that various contextual factors influenced students' willingness to adopt the alternative referent, and that students' beliefs, trust of the…
Descriptors: Action Research, Chemistry, Classroom Research, Foreign Countries