Humans have long sought to understand the forces that shape the diversity of living creatures on our planet. This work is primarily concerned with examining one such force---the historical action of natural selection---from practical, philosophical, and pedagogical perspectives.…
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This study was an examination of current Black participation in STEM and education. The purpose of this mixed method research study is to understand the possible reasons for low enrollment rates for Black high school students in STEM secondary courses. A historical perspective o…
Experiences preservice teachers (PTs) have in their preparation programs can directly impact their use of effective and just pedagogy in the classroom (Darling-Hammond, 2000; Tolbert, 2015; Stoddart, Pinal, Latzke, and Canaday, 2002; Bravo, Mosqueda, Solis and Stoddart, 2014). H…
This thesis considers the effect the transition to outcomes based education (OBE) has had on engineering educators and engineering education in the Institutes of Technology (IoTs) in Ireland. Whereas engineering education research into learning outcomes largely focuses on how te…
In an effort to provide more weight to the particle nature of light, a lesson sequence was developed that reflected the Next Generation Science Standard (NGSS) Performance Expectation (PE) HS-PS4-3, which has students evaluating the claim, evidence, and reasoning behind the idea…
There is growing interest to develop programs and pedagogies focused on increasing representation of underrepresented minority (URM) students within the scientific community. URM students face many pedagogical, societal, and institutional barriers that lead to disproportionately…
This qualitative historical case study explored the experiences of corporate and non-corporate organizations involved in educational partnerships. There is significant documentation that supports educational partnerships as they relate to the benefits for students. These benefic…
Esta investigación describe las conceptuaciones de los estudiantes de tercer año o más a nivel de bachillerato de los programas de Educación en Ciencia y Ciencias Naturales de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras, acerca de lo establecido en la literatura para d…
This action research project investigated fourth grade students¡¦ motivation to learn science using a digital science techbook. Participants in the study included 29 fourth grade students in two different classrooms. One classroom of 16 students used a digital science techbook t…
Purpose of the Study. The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of the cooperative learning method called Teams-Games-Tournaments (TGT), and the Traditional Teacher-Centered method (TTC) used in Saudi Arabia's schools, upon student's science achievement, attitudes, an…
The purpose of the present study was to identify factors that may contribute to business students in Lebanese universities having difficulty in introductory and advanced statistics courses. Two statistics courses are required for business majors at Lebanese universities. Student…
Improvements in medical and genomic technologies have dramatically increased the production of electronic data over the last decade. As a result, data management is rapidly becoming a major determinant, and urgent challenge, for the development of Precision Medicine. Although su…
This research is about the attitudes and educational practices towards inclusion of students with disabilities in science classroom. Four research questions were raised: (1) What are the attitudes of science teachers about the inclusion of students with disabilities?, (2) What i…
Chemical bonding knowledge is fundamental and essential to the understanding of almost every topic in chemistry, but it is very difficult to learn. This study describes the development of an automatic on-line tool that diagnoses basic conceptual knowledge of chemical bonding amo…
Student performance in college chemistry courses remains a concern for educators seeking to help improve the future STEM workforce. Besides math ability and prior chemistry knowledge, spatial ability and attitude toward chemistry have been considered as important factors influen…
Eighth grade Turkish students' mental models about the nature of magnets and magnetic interactions were examined in this research study. Using an interpretive qualitative design, I conducted this study in a middle school with thirty-one Turkish students who have not had any form…
In an effort to potentially increase low enrollment of females, particularly minorities, in Engineering programs, this study used a survey to determine motivations, interests and retention of current female Engineering students. A total of 82 participants from varied ethnic (non…
Through this research we will fully assess the benefits brought by the ExAO (Computer Assisted Experimentation) in school laboratories of science and technology in Lebanon. We would also like to mention its contribution in a tangible way in laboratory research of Pedagogic Robot…
This action research study was focused on how two middle school science teachers at the American International School in Israel (AIS-1) addressed strategies to develop projects in which their students could learn at a distance but not from a distance. The idea was not to develop…