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... During the summer prior to the study, the three teachers participated in a five-day, grant-funded, professional development workshop on flipped instruction. In the workshop, each teacher received technology to support ... See full document

... Table 4, prospective teachers proposed that if middle school students have problems in understanding negative numbers, in students‟ mathematical knowledge about numbers, in their schema of zero, and in their ... See full document

... Many students troubled by these personal, temporal and institutional barriers prefer a face-to-face learning environment for mathematics. Yet, there is a considerable number of students enthusiastic about the use ... See full document

... total number of objectives between the grade levels to obtain the proportion for each cell in the matrix, representing the cumulative content the objectives described between the grade ...the number of ... See full document

... figure 4 was coded as deductive proof scheme in this ...figure 5, Scott was able to evalate the correctness of the presented mathematical statement and refute the statement by presenting a ... See full document

... According to Lesh and Doerr (2003b), on the other hand, modeling is an approach where models are “conceptual systems (consisting of elements, relations, operations, and rules governing interactions) that are expressed ... See full document

... limited number of disciplinary core ideas of science and engineering that are essential to explain and predict a host of phenomena and to solve ...large number of topics typical of textbooks (Kesidou & ... See full document

... The course was designed around two-week modules focusing on four salient SSIs to students living in the region: (1) Should you eat organic or conventional food? (2) Should you use biofuels in your car? (3) Should we hunt ... See full document

... three NOS components that included empirical, tentative, and subjective factors in the SSI contexts of genetically modified foods and water fluoridation. Results showed improvements in the learning of argumentation ... See full document

... included 5 credits each in science and mathematics, 2 credits in engineering, and 2 technology elective ...only 4 credits each of science and mathematics for graduation (this has since been further ... See full document

... Promoting and sustaining interest in Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) is a major concern for the future competitiveness of the United States in a global economy. Despite recent increases in the ... See full document

... Cultivating spatial skills improves the retention of all engineering majors thus helping to reduce the gender gap in STEM areas (Assessing Women in Engineering [AWE] Project, 2005). Spatial skills are important in ... See full document

... and number of experts in the researched area (Skulmoski et ...sufficient number of experts is available ...the number of experts is limited in the researched area, further verification with another ... See full document

... The STAR Legacy Cycle used in the River of Life is a “flexibly adaptive” software platform which enables classroom teachers to design pedagogically appropriate science instructional strategies by taking advantage of the ... See full document

... Week 5 & 6: During the 5 th and 6 th week the PSTs were presented to the problem: “The population of the bees worldwide is declining. Should we care, and why?” Initially they were asked to give their ... See full document

... This study introduces a critical response pedagogy (CRP), an arts-based critical technique to facilitate meaningful dialogue in focus group settings, to secondary school science education students to engage them in ... See full document

... Perceptions about the causes and impacts of climate change changed significantly as a result of the instruction. This finding correlates with changes in their knowledge about the causes and impacts captured on the pre ... See full document

... small number of well-developed knowledge structures, the internal, acquired, push/pull, and gravity, plus a few hybrid models that are a mix of these meanings as discussed ... See full document

... Researchers claimed that SSI-based instruction is scarcely applied in science classrooms because of two major reasons (Friedrichsen, Sadler, Graham & Brown, 2016): first, instructional materials for the instruction ... See full document

... As students learn to engage in the process of doing science, their understanding of scientific knowledge is strengthened. What is learned in the study of science is framed by the strands of science proficiencies which ... See full document