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Juyeon Lee; Taesoo An; Hye-Eun Chu; Hun-Gi Hong; Sonya N. Martin – Asia-Pacific Science Education, 2023
This study aimed to develop a specialized rule-based AI chatbot tailored for a sixth-grade optics unit and to evaluate the impact of the implementation of the chatbot on students' cognitive and affective outcomes related to science within the classroom setting. Specifically, this study explored how factors such as gender and achievement levels…
Descriptors: Science Education, Elementary School Science, Grade 6, Scientific Literacy
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Diaz, Maria Eugenia – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2019
This qualitative study explores the in- and out-of-school experiences that could have influenced elementary preservice teachers? beliefs and attitudes toward learning and teaching science. Participants were 126 Latina/o EC-6 preservice teachers in the context of a 16-week undergraduate level elementary methods course. Data sources consisted of…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Hispanic American Students, Student Attitudes, Beliefs
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Sunassee, Suthananda N.; Young, Ryan M.; Sewry, Joyce D.; Harrison, Timothy G.; Shallcross, Dudley E. – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2012
In accordance with the requirements for the National Curriculum Statement for both Life sciences and Physical sciences and the importance of community engagement in Higher Education in South Africa, this paper described the use of the lecture-demonstration "A Pollutant's Tale" to create climate change awareness amongst school learners.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Climate, Environmental Education, Consciousness Raising
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Maoldomhnaigh, Micheal O.; Hunt, Aine – Research in Science and Technological Education, 1988
Investigates the effect of the exposure of a great scientist's life story represented in a manner either suggestive or not suggestive of the stereotype, and of sex difference on the image of scientist possessed by fifth graders. Reports two main effects and interaction effect from two-way analysis of variance. (YP)
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Foreign Countries, Grade 5, Science Careers
Takemura, Shigekazu – 1989
The purpose of this project was to find and make clarifications about the uniqueness and similarities on various aspects of science education programs in Japan, the Republic of Korea, the United States, and the Philippines that could provide the basic considerations on curriculum development. Included are: (1) an introduction to the research; (2)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comparative Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Elementary Education
Rennie, Leonie J.; And Others – 1985
This report documents the development, implementation, and evaluation of an inservice program designed to facilitate a non-sexist approach to the teaching of science in primary schools. Ten matched pairs of teachers were selected on the basis of a survey questionnaire to participate in the study. Teachers were given help in the teaching of…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Classroom Environment, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Research