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Development of the STEM Attitudes of Educators Tool: A Measurement Tool to Assess the STEM Self-efficacy and Motivation of Afterschool Educators 

Bales, Shannon (2019-04-16)
The purpose of this study was to understand how a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) professional development workshop improved teachers’ self-efficacy and motivation to implement STEM in their afterschool ...

Exploring and Measuring the Teaching and Development of Earth Systems Thinking Skills in Undergraduate Geoscience Courses 

Soltis, Nicholas (2020-04-24)
The understanding of the development of Earth systems thinking (EST) is a major challenge in the field of geoscience education. Major questions exist relating to systems thinking teaching practices, student conceptions ...

An Investigation of Seventh Grade Students’ Attitudes Towards Animals in a Middle School Science Classroom in Rural Alabama 

Moss, Jackson (2019-04-24)
This dissertation examines the different types of attitudes toward animals held by 7th grade students in one middle school in the rural southeastern part United States. This study was conducted using seven-point Likert ...

Teaching Science Thinking: Examining the Effect of Daily Science Thinking on Post-Secondary Students 

Brenneman, Mark (2024-04-24)
This dissertation examines the effect of science journal writing on student scientific thinking skills in one private Christian university in the southeastern United States. The participants’ scientific thinking skills ...