SCIENCE INSTRUCTION

Basic science and applied science instruction: are they compatible?

Basic science and applied science instruction are compatible and essential for animal science professionals to succeed in their chosen career. Application of science is a continuum. Although production methods are constantly evolving, the science on which changes are made is fixed and fundamental. Only our understanding changes. We are educating students in preparation for a life-long learning ...

A Smart curriculum for middle-school science instruction: A Web-based curriculum integrating assessment and instruction

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The equivalence of learning paths in early science instruction : effects of direct instruction

In a study with 112 third and fourth grade children, we measured the relative effectiveness of discovery learning and direct instruction at two points in the learning process (a) during the initial acquisition of the basic cognitive objective: a procedure for designing and interpreting simple, unconfounded experiments, and (b) during the subsequent transfer and application of this basic skill t...

A baseline study of behavioral science instruction in dental schools.

The Case for Spatial Skills Instruction in Computer Science

Spatial thinking has been an area of research in cognitive psychology for more than 100 years. Through this research, the following themes emerge: spatial skills are critical to success in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields and gender differences in spatial cognition, favoring males, are consistent and are particularly robust in 3-D mental rotation. Recent research ...