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Haydock, Karen – School Science Review, 2014
We sometimes struggle with the question of whether our primary goal is for students to recall or understand answers to questions, or for students to do science and improve their "scientific temper". This article describes how an enquiry-based laboratory experiment was carried out in which the stress was on the latter. The students…
Descriptors: Laboratory Experiments, Inquiry, Active Learning, Behavioral Objectives
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Verma, Meenakshi Harraw – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2011
Engineering students tend to pay more attention to their core subject classes rather than on an English language class. They all come from different social and academic backgrounds and their knowledge of English language varies from one another. A mixed ability group throws many challenges to an English language teacher teaching to a grown up or…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Language Acquisition, Engineering Education, College Second Language Programs
Nargund-Joshi, Vanashri – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study explores the concepts and behaviors, otherwise referred to as "orientations", of six Indian science teachers and the alignment of these orientations to the 2005 India National Curriculum Framework (NCF-2005). Differences in teachers' orientations across grade bands (elementary, middle, and secondary) and school types (public…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Curriculum Development