High-school-age science assessments

Generalizing Activity Structures from High School to Middle School Science

It is often said that students who perform well in school are those that understand the rules of the game. In other words, students need to understand not only the content related to an activity, but also the teacher expectations for how to participate in that activity and how the activity is typically structured (Doyle, 1979; Mehan, 1980). Lemke (1990) provides an example of a predominant acti...

Standards of Learning: Science – High School

A High School Program in Computer Science

The authors are part of a committee that has been designing a new high-school curriculum in computer science and supervising the preparation of a comprehensive study program based on it. The new program emphasizes the foundations of algorithmic thinking, and teaches programming as a way to get the computer to carry out an algorithm. The paper discusses the program and its initial implementation.

High school science fair and research integrity

Research misconduct has become an important matter of concern in the scientific community. The extent to which such behavior occurs early in science education has received little attention. In the current study, using the web-based data collection program REDCap, we obtained responses to an anonymous and voluntary survey about science fair from 65 high school students who recently competed in t...

The Design and Construction of an Efficient Model for Teaching Science in Junior High School

Analysis of Desk Graffiti in Karaj High Schools F. Aabedi M. Monaadi, Ph.D. Writing graffiti on the walls and furniture as a means of expressing disappointments, wishes, and ideals is an old habit. From a socio-pathological perspective it may be considered a delinquent act, it is a way of communication between the writer and the readers of the graffiti. To analyze the content ...