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... This study explored pre-service teachers’ use of Hutchison and Woodward’s (2014) Technology Integration Planning Cycle for instructional lesson planning in literacy. Ten pre-service teachers enrolled in a course entitled ... See full document

... Media has a strong influence on the social, emotional, and cognitive development of today’s youth, accounting for a large portion of their time (Roberts, Foehr, & Rideout, 2005). Roberts et al.’s (2005) study ... See full document

... The participants started to discuss what the angle between the legs could be, to validate the variables. For this purpose, they decided to utilize Sevil’s measurements again. According to the assumptions they constructed ... See full document

... Hong Kong is a special administration region of China. Hong Kong had been a colonial city of the United Kingdom for more than one and half centuries before its handover to China in 1997. Thus, it has a unique system of ... 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

... 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

... 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

... Participated pre-service teachers focused mostly on teaching topological concepts with regard to the benefits of the WebQuest. Students’ views, such as “We learnt the topic of topology.”, “This WebQuest helped me to ... 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

... The other element examined by means of qualitative analysis concerned students’ hands-on skills as observed during the completion of their investigative projects. In general, the ability of learners to graph data and ... 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 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

... press, 2016) developed an “iceberg model” for equivalent fractions in which the tip of the iceberg above the water line represents equivalent fractions understanding while sub-concepts such as naming, modeling, ... 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 facts ... See full document

... Technical adequacy information reported in the Core EGMA Toolkit (Research Triangle International, 2014a) provides evidence that the results obtained from the EGMA can support valid decision making. Technical evidence ... See full document

... In the visual proof produced by Burak and Erdem, they started to model squares of 1, 2 and 3 by using cubes. The dark blue cube represents square of 1, the green cubes represent square of 2 and the grey ones represent ... 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

... Within the study, it was found that the students experience many misconceptions in relation to the concepts of heat, temperature and energy. Kulkarni and Tambade (2013) reported the same finding. Yet, there is a decrease ... See full document