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Text Editing in Chemistry Instruction.

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Ngu, Bing Hiong; Low, Renae; Sweller, John – Instructional Science, 2002

Describes experiments with Australian high school students that investigated differences in performance on chemistry word problems between two learning strategies: text editing, and conventional problem solving. Concluded that text editing had no advantage over problem solving in stoichiometry problems, and that the suitability of a text editing…

Descriptors: Chemistry, Foreign Countries, Learning Strategies, Problem Solving

Personalization in Science: Preliminary Investigation at the Middle School Level

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Linn, Marcia C.; And Others – Instructional Science, 1976

A science program in which students were encouraged to select their own project goal as well as the apparatus to accomplish this goal was developed and tried in two 5th grade classes. (Author)

Descriptors: Educational Research, Grade 5, Individualized Instruction, Laboratory Procedures