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Boddey, Kerrie; de Berg, Kevin – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2015
Nursing students have typically found the study of chemistry to be one of their major challenges in a nursing course. This mixed method study was designed to explore how prior experiences in chemistry might impact chemistry achievement during a health science unit. Nursing students (N = 101) studying chemistry as part of a health science unit were…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Chemistry, Science Achievement, Scores
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Trumper, Ricardo – International Journal of Science Education, 2001
Analyzes junior high school students' astronomy conceptions by means of a written questionnaire and delineates the main findings. Focuses on the effect on climate of the relative positions of the earth, moon and sun. (Contains 41 references.) (DDR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Environmental Education, Epistemology, High Schools
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Frantzen, Diana; Magnan, Sally Sieloff – Foreign Language Annals, 2005
This study considered true beginners and false beginners in first-semester university French and Spanish classes to: (a) determine whether true beginners and false beginners differ in anxiety, grades, and plans to continue language study; and (b) identify classroom factors that foster anxiety or comfort. Students completed a questionnaire that…
Descriptors: Anxiety, French, Spanish, Second Language Instruction
Fukai, Miyuki – 2000
Anxiety is believed to affect foreign language learning and performance. This preliminary study investigates the role of high school Japanese learning experience in student anxiety while taking an introductory Japanese course in college. This study shows that the presence or absence of high school Japanese instruction affects levels and sources of…
Descriptors: College Students, Communication Apprehension, High Schools, Higher Education
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Levine, Tamar; Donitsa-Schmidt, Smadar – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1995
This experimental study explored whether, and to what extent, differences in gender and experience with word processing affect how students perceive their classroom environment in high school writing classes. Treatment of experimental and control groups is described, and the classroom environment questionnaire for the experimental…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Computer Assisted Instruction, Gender Issues, High School Students
Institute for Behavioral Research in Creativity, Salt Lake City, UT. – 1992
This report presents results from Phase 2 of an ongoing Utah State Office of Education project titled "Preliminary Study of Proficiency Based Credit Testing in Utah Public Schools." Proficiency-based credit assessment (PBCA) means awarding secondary school academic credit to students considered proficient in the area without having taken…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acceleration (Education), Advanced Courses, Advanced Placement
Michigan State Board of Education, Lansing. – 1990
In response to state legislation calling for a comprehensive report on the transferability of vocational courses from high school to community colleges and four-year institutions, questionnaires were sent to all of Michigan's 29 community colleges and 15 universities. The survey sent to universities focused on the extent to which a college…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Advanced Placement, Articulation (Education), College Applicants