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The concept of meta-analysis
(Elsevier, 1989)
Keeping up with the literature of education becomes a more difficult task each year. The Current Index to Journals in Education last year listed more than 17,000 articles published in 700 journals. Research in Education ...
Guiding explanation construction by children at the entry points of learning progressions
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2012-02)
Policy documents in science education suggest that even at the earliest years of formal schooling, students are capable of constructing scientific explanations about focal content. Nonetheless, few research studies provide ...
Graphical user interfaces in an engineering educational environment
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2005)
Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) are being increasingly used in the classroom to provide users of computer simulations with a friendly and visual approach to specifying all input parameters and increased configuration ...
Design Strategy from the Population Perspective
(Sage Publications, 1984)
The population perspective on organizational change downplays the consequences of managerial action and focuses on populations rather than on single organizations as evolving units. The population perspective is useful in ...
A conceptual guide to natural history museum visitors' understanding of evolution
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2010-03)
Museum visitors are an ideal population for assessing the persistence of the conceptual barriers that make it difficult to grasp Darwinian evolutionary theory. In comparison with other members of the public, they are more ...
Spillback Effects of Expansion When Product-Types and Firm-Types Differ
(Sage Publications, 1995)
Contrary to perspectives that credit firms with only limited abilities to undertake significant change successfully, recent research has demonstrated that firms often improve their performance after undertaking major ...
Real-World Applications and Instructional Representations Among Prospective Elementary Science Teachers
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005-12)
This paper explores new elementary teachers' instructional representations and how these are related to their science subject matter knowledge. One pair of prospective elementary teachers studied here exhibited a ...
Commitment Propensity, Organizational Commitment, and Voluntary Turnover: A Longitudinal Study of Organizational Entry Processes
(Sage Publications, 1992)
This study investigated the effect of commitment propensity (a summary concept comprising personal characteristics and experiences that individuals bring to the organization) on the development of subsequent organizational ...
Development and Evaluation of an Inquiry-Based Elementary Science Teacher Education Program Reflecting Current Reform Movements
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005-08)
The National Science Education Standards (National Research Council 1996, National science education standards . Washington, DC: National Academy Press) and various other national and state documents call for teachers who ...