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Avvisati, Francesco; Borgonovi, Francesca – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2023
Written instructions seldom need to be read when playing videogames. Instead, gaming often involves early information foraging and expansive exploration behaviors. We use data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) to explore whether students who regularly play videogames (daily gamers) adopt behaviors that are typical of…
Descriptors: Video Games, Science Process Skills, Problem Solving, Discovery Learning
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Lee, Chwee Beng; Teo, Timothy; Chai, Ching Sing – Teacher Development, 2010
This study aims to examine pre-service teachers' knowledge and regulation of cognition. The authors administered Schraw and Dennison's Metacognitive Awareness Inventory to 254 pre-service teachers in Singapore. The results showed no significant difference by educational level on all subscales except for evaluation, which is a subscale of…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Foreign Countries, Teaching Experience, Gender Differences
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Liu, Shiang-Yao; Tsai, Chin-Chung – International Journal of Science Education, 2008
The purpose of this study was to examine whether science and non-science major students have different scientific epistemological views (SEVs). A multidimensional instrument previously developed by the authors was used to assess differences in college students' SEV of various aspects. A total of 220 freshmen (42% science and 58% non-science…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Undergraduate Students, Science Teachers, Epistemology
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Yang, Fang-Ying – International Journal of Science Education, 2004
This study examined 10th-grade students' use of theory and evidence in evaluating a socio-scientific issue: the use of underground water, after students had received a Science, Technology and Society-oriented instruction. Forty-five male and 45 female students from two intact, single-sex, classes participated in this study. A flow-map method was…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Gender Differences, High School Students, Thinking Skills
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Martel, Lise D.; Mueller, Charles W. – Journal of HIV/AIDS Prevention in Children & Youth, 2006
This study examined the predictive power of knowledge, attitudes, support for AIDS education, teaching comfort, perceived behavioral control, religious (Vodoun and Christian) beliefs, and subjective norms on Haitian educators' teaching of HIV/AIDS to their students. Two hundred and fourteen teachers from Jeremie and surrounding areas in Haiti…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Predictor Variables, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Prediction