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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 ...
THE GENETIC RECOMBINATION OF SCIENCE AND RELIGION
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2010-06)
The estrangement between genetic scientists and theologians originating in the 1960s is reflected in novel combinations of human thought (subject) and genes (investigational object), paralleling each other through the ...
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 ...
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE DEFENSE SYNDROMES OF SOME NEW ZEALAND MARINE CRUSTACEA
(Brill Academic Publishers; Koninklijke Brill, Leiden 2000 ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2000-10)
Five sympatric species of intertidal decapod crustaceans were studied in the field and laboratory with regard to the mechanisms used for predator defense. The species are sympatric and represent a gradient from high ...
An alternative approach to confirmatory inference and geometric models
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1981-12)
An evaluation of the effectiveness of cluster development in the Town of Southampton, New York
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-01)
Clustering new development, and as a result retaining protected open space, has been a simultaneously much touted and much maligned planning tool. Its relative merits as a tool to preserve farmland, open space and rural ...
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 ...
Simple models for exploitative and interference competition
(Elsevier, 1987-02)
Competition is exploitative when species compete for the same limited resource, and interference when species deplete one another's resources by interferences such as aggressive displays or fighting. If pure exploitative ...
What weight should weights have in individual differences scaling?
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1978-09)
Developing a hypothetical multi-dimensional learning progression for the nature of matter
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2010-08)
We describe efforts toward the development of a hypothetical learning progression (HLP) for the growth of grade 7–14 students' models of the structure, behavior and properties of matter, as it relates to nanoscale science ...