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Student attitudes, student anxieties, and how to address them : a handbook for science teachers /

This book is written for a wide range of graduate and undergraduate students studying various courses in physics and astronomy. It is accompanied by the award winning educational Windows software package "Planets and Satellites" developed by the author. This text, together with the interac...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Kastrup, Helge (Autor), Mallow, Jeffry V. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2016]
Colección:IOP (Series). Release 2.
IOP concise physics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Attitudes. How do students view science?
  • 2.1. The questionnaire study
  • 2.2. The student interview study
  • 2.3. The interviews with Danish and American science educator/administrators
  • 3. Anxieties. Why do students fear science?
  • 3.1. The science anxiety clinic
  • 3.2. The large-scale studies
  • 3.3. Math anxiety versus science anxiety
  • 4. Connections between attitudes and anxiety
  • 5. Constructivism: a philosophy and a pedagogy of science
  • 6. What do we do on Monday morning? Implementing constructivist pedagogy
  • 7. Constructing teaching
  • Appendices
  • A. Science attitudes questionnaire
  • B. Regression analysis
  • C. Student interview questions
  • D. Science anxiety questionnaire
  • E. Chi-square analysis
  • F. Teachers' practices questionnaire.