Middle School Students’ Conceptions of Infinity

efl home literacy practices of iranian middle school students: an ethnography

موضوع آموزش زبان انگلیسی و کسب مهارت در آن همواره مورد توجه کارشناسان، خانواده ها و معلمان قرار داشته است. امروزه این مهم، با گسترش نیازها و تنوع کاربرد های آن، بیش از هر زمان دیگری به مطالعه و تحلیل نیاز دارد. بر اساس یک رویکرد فرهنگی- اجتماعی به آموزش و سواد، این مطالعه کیفی در پی آن است تا با شیوه قوم نگاری((ethnography، توصیف و تحلیلی از مجموعه فعالیت های آموزشی در خانه( (home literacy ...

Exploring Middle School Students’ Conceptions of the Relationship Between Genetic Inheritance and Cell Division

This study examines students’ understanding of the normative connections between key concepts of cell division, including both mitosis and meiosis, and underlying Correspondence to: Michelle Williams; e-mail: [email protected] C © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Plausibility Reappraisals and Shifts in Middle School Students’ Climate Change Conceptions

Plausibility is a central but under-examined topic in conceptual change research. Climate change is an important socio-scientific topic; however, many view human-induced climate change as implausible. When learning about climate change, students need to make plausibility judgments but they may not be sufficiently critical or reflective. The purpose of this study was to examine how students‘ pla...

Running Head: TEACHERS’ EXPECTATIONS OF MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS Teachers’ Expectations of Middle School Students

Elementary School Students’ Intuitive Conceptions of Random Distribution

This research focuses on fourth-grade (9-year-old) students’ informal and intuitive conceptions of probability and distribution revealed as they worked through a sequence of tasks. These tasks were designed to study students’ spontaneous reasoning about distributions in different settings and their understanding of probability of various binomial random events that they explored with a set of p...