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The Impact of the "Materials Explorers™" Curriculum on Relevance and Attitudes in Science
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Rebecca Danielle Connelly – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Students majoring in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are in high demand. Over 1 million STEM graduates will be needed by 2022 to meet the projected workforce needs (The Progress Report on Coordinating Federal Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education, 2016). If students are needed to fulfill jobs in areas…
Descriptors: Scientific Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Science Instruction, Student Motivation
The Effect of Motivation on the Choice of Chemistry in Secondary Schools: Adaptation and Validation of the Science Motivation Questionnaire II to Spanish Students
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Ardura, Diego; Pérez-Bitrián, Alberto – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2018
The present study aims to analyse the effect of motivational variables and previous academic achievement on students' future choice of chemistry once this subject becomes optional in the educational system. Toward this goal, the translation and adaptation of the Science Motivation Questionnaire II (SMQII) has been undertaken in our investigation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Student Motivation, Science Interests
Large Gains in Undergraduate Biology Student Achievement from a Combined Cognitive-Motivational Intervention
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Cromley, Jennifer G.; Kaplan, Avi; Totonchi, Delaram A.; Stine, Kevin; Mara, Kyle R.; Balsai, Michael; Ta – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
We built on two cognitive and three motivational theoretical constructs to create a combined intervention aiming to improve course achievement and retention in STEM for first-year ("gateway") biology students. Participants were 350 students in one of 8 conditions or a no-treatment control group. Messages supporting cognition and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Biology, Science Instruction, Management Systems
Nature of Science and Science Content Learning: The Relation between Students' Nature of Science Understanding and Their Learning about the Concept of Energy
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Michel, Hanno; Neumann, Irene – Science & Education, 2016
Besides viewing knowledge about the nature of science (NOS) as important for its own value with respect to scientific literacy, an adequate understanding of NOS is expected to improve science content learning by fostering the ability to interrelate scientific concepts and, thus, coherently acquire scientific content knowledge. However, there is a…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Grade 6, Grade 7, Energy
Adolescents' Goal Orientations for Science in Single-Gender Israeli Religious Schools
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Fortus, David; Daphna, Limor – International Journal of Science Education, 2017
Israeli students and their families can choose between state-funded secular, religious, orthodox, and other alternative schools (e.g., Waldorf, Montessori, democratic). Earlier studies showed that the motivation to engage with science differs greatly between Israeli students in secular schools and democratic schools, with these differences being…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Goal Orientation, Single Sex Schools, Religious Education
Women's Selection of Careers in Engineering: Do Traditional-Nontraditional Differences Still Exist?
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Fitzpatrick, Jody L.; Silverman, Traci – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1989
Compared background and motivation of 82 high-achieving college women in engineering and science to those of 31 women in the humanities and social sciences. Areas of investigation included family composition and parental characteristics, childhood socialization, sources of support for career choice, and work characteristics. Significant…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Engineering