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Tesfai, Mehreteab; Nagothu, Udaya Sekhar; Šimek, Josef; Fucíkc, Petr – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
A total of 967 students (males and females) from four secondary schools in Vysocina region of Czechia were interviewed via 24-question Likert-type questionnaire to assess student's environmental awareness and perceptions. The generalized linear models were used to test if (and to what extent) student perceptions related to environment are/or not…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Student Attitudes, Environmental Education
Turturean, Monica; Turturean, Ciprian – Online Submission, 2012
In this article we will try to realize a comparative study in order to find out if the internet has a positive or a negative role for undergraduate's university students. The purpose of this study is to identify the perception of undergraduate university students regarding the effects of the internet for their scientific activities and their…
Descriptors: Internet, Comparative Analysis, Undergraduate Students, Educational Needs
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Ornstein, Avi – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2006
Attitudinal data tested hypotheses that students have more positive attitudes toward science when teachers regularly emphasize hands-on laboratory activities and when students more frequently experience higher levels of experimentation or inquiry. The first predicted that students would have more positive attitudes toward science in classrooms…
Descriptors: Hands on Science, Science Instruction, Laboratory Experiments, Inquiry
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Keselman, Alla – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2003
Early adolescents may lack the cognitive and metacognitive skills necessary for effective inquiry learning. In particular, they are likely to have a nonnormative mental model of multivariable causality in which effects of individual variables are neither additive nor consistent. Described here is a software-based intervention designed to…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Inferences, Metacognition, Cognitive Development