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Keles, Taliha – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2022
Creativity and creative problem-solving are seen as the most important components of education today. This situation reveals the need to identify students' creative problem-solving characteristics. This study, it was aimed to examine the creative problem-solving characteristics of gifted and non-gifted students in terms of giftedness diagnosis,…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Creativity, Academically Gifted, Gender Differences
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Baran, Mukadder; Baran, Medine – Journal of Education and Learning, 2023
This research aims to draw a picture of chemistry lessons based on students' opinions in Hakkari, Turkey. The research design is a case study. An open-ended qualitative questionnaire consisting of 15 questions was used. The questionnaire was applied to 463 tenth- and eleventh-grade students studying at high schools in Hakkari. The data obtained…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Grade 10
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Maker, C. June – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2020
In the Cultivating Diverse Talent in STEM project, funded by the National Science Foundation in the United States, new assessments were developed, field tested, used to identify students with exceptional talent in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), and compared with existing methods (grade point average [GPA], letters of…
Descriptors: Talent Identification, STEM Education, Diversity, Creativity
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McCulloch, Allison W.; Kenney, Rachael H.; Keene, Karen Allen – School Science and Mathematics, 2013
This paper reports on a mixed-methods study of 111 Advanced Placement calculus students' self-reports of their graphing calculator use, comfort, and rationale for trusting a solution produced with or without a graphing calculator when checking written work. It was found that there was no association between gender, teacher-reported mathematical…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Mathematics Instruction, Graphing Calculators, Student Attitudes
Lartson, Cobina Adu – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Recent trends indicate a significant decline in the number of students graduating from Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) programs in the US. The under-representation of students of color, females and low income students in STEM programs has also been documented. Design Based Science (DBS) instruction has been suggested to improve…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, STEM Education, Instructional Design, Design
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Fleischman, Howard L.; Hopstock, Paul J.; Pelczar, Marisa P.; Shelley, Brooke E. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2010
The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an international assessment that measures the performance of 15-year-olds in reading literacy, mathematics literacy, and science literacy. Coordinated by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), an intergovernmental organization of 34 member countries, PISA was…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, International Organizations, Scientific Literacy
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Franke, Todd M. – Prevention Researcher, 2003
Violence among American youth is a significant societal problem. The past decade witnessed juvenile arrests for violence, weapons, drugs, and curfew violations peak in the mid 90's. Analogous to the arrest trends for older juveniles, the arrest rate for young offenders rose 63% from 1987 until 1994 when it declined slightly. Since that time,…
Descriptors: Violence, Young Adults, Adolescents, Juvenile Justice