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Saudi Arabian Secondary School Students' Views of the Nature of Science and Epistemological Beliefs: Gendered Differences
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Kim, Sun Young; Hamdan Alghamdi, Amani K. – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2023
Background: Understanding students' views of the nature of science (NOS) has become one of the most discussed topics of science education in Saudi Arabia. Insights therein could inform curricular inform, preservice, and inservice teacher education and the national discourse around science in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Purpose: This study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scientific Principles, Secondary School Students, Grade 10
An Analysis of Grade 11 Learners' Levels of Understanding of Functions in Terms of APOS Theory
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Chimhande, Tinoda; Naidoo, Ana; Stols, Gerrit – Africa Education Review, 2017
This article reports on a study of six Grade 11 learners' levels of understanding of concepts related to the function definition and representation. Task-based clinical interviews were used to elicit the learners' interpretations and reasoning when working with these function-related concepts. Indicators for Action-Process-Object-Schema (APOS)…
Descriptors: Grade 11, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, Case Studies
Relationship between Leadership Styles of High School Teachers, Principals, and Assistant Principals and Their Attitudes toward School Wide Positive Behavior and Support Implementation
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Lampton-Holmes, Geneva Cosweler – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this study was to determine if seventh through twelfth grade educators' attitudes towards School-Wide Positive Behavior Support (SWPBS) are affected based on their gender, years of experience, school discipline policy, leadership style, and knowledge of SWPBS. Through an online survey, an analysis of the leadership style and…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems
Parental Knowledge and Substance Use among African American Adolescents: Influence of Gender and Grade Level
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Tebes, Jacob Kraemer; Cook, Emily C.; Vanderploeg, Jeffrey J.; Feinn, Richard; Chinman, Matthew J.; Shepard, Jane K.; Brabham, Tamika; Connell, Christian M. – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2011
Parental knowledge is defined as parental awareness and information about a child's activities, whereabouts, and associations that is obtained through parental monitoring, parental solicitation, or self-disclosure. Increased parental knowledge is generally associated with lower adolescent substance use; however, the influence of various contextual…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Drug Abuse, Adolescents, Influences
Economics Understanding of Albanian High School Students: Factors Related to Achievement as Measured by Test Scores on the Test of Economic Literacy
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Bushati, Dolore – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study examined the level of economics knowledge, overall and on specific economic concepts after Albanian 11th grade and 12th grade students completed their required economics course and investigated how economics knowledge differed by student and teacher characteristics. There were 1,509 students who participated in this research from 12…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Teacher Characteristics, Economics Education, Economics
Emiratii High School Students' Understandings of Stoichiometry and the Influence of Metacognition on Their Understanding
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Haidar, Abdullateef H.; Al Naqabi, Ali K. – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2008
The aim of this study is to investigate Emiratii high school students' understandings of stoichiometry, their use of metacognitive strategies, and the influence of students' use of metacognitive strategies on their understandings of stoichiometry. Two instruments were used in this study, the first to measure students' understandings of…
Descriptors: Stoichiometry, Metacognition, Grade 11, High School Students