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Book Review: The Thin Woman: Feminism, Post-Structuralism, and the Social Psychology of Anorexia Nervosa. Helen Malson.
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2000-03)
Racial Stereotypes and Gender in Context: African Americans at Predominantly Black and Predominantly White Colleges
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2004-07)
In this study, relationships among stereotype expectations, gender, and academic self-concept and performance of African American students in predominantly White and predominantly Black college contexts were examined. ...
Knowledge Integration in Science Teaching: Analysing Teachers' Knowledge Development
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2004-03)
This paper tests the utility of a new sociocognitive frame for analysing the development of teachers' knowledge – the knowledge integration perspective (Linn, Eylon, & Davis, in press; Linn & Hsi, 2000). In doing so, the ...
Teaching with difference: A response to Angela Calabrese Barton: Teaching science with homeless children: Pedagogy, representation, and identity
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1998-04)
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The nature of middle school learners' science content understandings with the use of on-line resources
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2003-03)
Early research on using the World Wide Web indicated that middle school students did not explore much and used Web tools naively. In response to these challenges, an on-line research engine, Artemis, was designed to provide ...
Book reviews
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1984-11)
Technology-rich inquiry science in urban classrooms: What are the barriers to inquiry pedagogy? * Any opinions, findings, and conclusion or recommendations expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2002-02)
What are the barriers to technology-rich inquiry pedagogy in urban science classrooms, and what kinds of programs and support structures allow these barriers to be overcome? Research on the pedagogical practices within ...
Promoting understanding of chemical representations: Students' use of a visualization tool in the classroom
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2001-09)
Many students have difficulty learning symbolic and molecular representations of chemistry. This study investigated how students developed an understanding of chemical representations with the aid of a computer-based ...
Comparing three attitude-behavior theories for predicting science teachers' intentions
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2002-11)
Social psychologists' attitude-behavior theories can contribute to understanding science teachers' behaviors. Such understanding can, in turn, be used to improve professional development. This article describes leading ...
Parent perceptions and attributions for children's math achievement
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1988-09)
From junior high school on, girls report lower estimations of their math ability and express more negative attitudes about math than do boys, despite equivalent performance in grades. Parents show this same sex-typed bias. ...