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... The Primary Math and Reading Initiative (PRIMR), an intervention program that provided teaching and learning materials in reading and mathematics to teachers in grades 1 and 2, in cooperation with USAID and the Kenyan ... See full document

... The study was carried out at St. John Boscos’ College of Education, one of 38 public colleges of education, located at the Upper East Region of Ghana. Participants comprised two intact classes of 94 first-year ... See full document

... Learning foci of the reviewed studies were examined in six categories: (1) scientific knowledge, (2) scientific processes, (3) problem-solving, (4) affect, (5) engagement, and (6) socio-contextual learning ... See full document

... In Figure 3, the next split from Node 15 involving 8th grade students is made with respect to the gender. In other words, gender is the most effective factor for 8th grade students to determine attitude level. The ... See full document

... the number of the misconception held by the students with the increasing grade ...Graph 3, it is seen that that misconceptions about the concept of energy, contrary to the general trend, display a tendency ... See full document

... The first technique was based on creating a shape and modifying it within itself. The initially constructed shape visualizes a statement on the basis of relevant parts in a connected manner [we can call this “basic ... See full document

... STEM projects also focused on training preservice and in-service teachers. Sungur Gül and Marulcu (2014) focused on the engineering discipline, worked with preservice and in-service science teachers on engineering design ... See full document

... In recent years, WebQuests have received a great deal of attention and have been used effectively in teaching-learning process in various courses. In this study, a WebQuest that can be applicable in teaching topological ... See full document

... The students who preferred the orbital model abandon the orbicular pattern; however, they believe that the electrons follow a constant trajectory although the trajectory may have different visual patterns, such as a ... See full document

... The collaborations began when Semsettin Beser, a very bright and talented young man from Ankara, arrived to contribute to the STEM transformation. His interests moved the entire mathematics education program into the ... See full document

... We support the idea of integrated STEM education in a Turkish context in ways that students spend efforts to solve a real-world problem, which requires content knowledge and skills in s[r] ... See full document

... The investigative projects were assigned randomly to groups of two to three students, and consisted of three different sets of laboratory experiments of varying difficulty that could be conducted in six different ways. ... See full document

... The discussion followed on how mathematical modeling activities and project-based learning contexts contribute to integrated STEM education by providing two research-based experienc[r] ... See full document

... a number of projects such as Technology for All Americans Project (1994-2005) and Standards for Technological Literacy: Content for the Study of Technology (2000-2007), funded by the National Science Foundation ... See full document

... A critical finding from these data is that the difference in expectations while using the same term in CCSSM and NGSS hold the potential for confusion or misinterpretation. Although not within the scope of this study, ... See full document

... the number line. However, the students did not use the number line in this way, but two students (M6 and L6) confused with counting the ticks that they put in ...of number line, some teachers ... See full document

... Our results in a later VMTwG session also show how the VMTwG environment shapes the knowledge that the teachers develop while working to construct a perpendicula[r] ... See full document

... These pseudoscientific beliefs of the pre-service science teachers are indicator of the naïve views about the difference between observation and inference aspect of NOS. These pre-service science teachers weren’t able to ... See full document

... The preparation of U.S. elementary teachers involves completing a four-year college degree that typically aims to prepare them to teach all subjects (e.g., reading, language arts, mathematics, science, social ... See full document

... If we only look at students’ correct and incorrect answers, it appears that these three students did not exhibit change in their fraction learning from pretest to posttest. However, a qualitative analysis provides deeper ... See full document