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Lower secondary science students' misconceptions of ozone depletion and global warming
(School of Education, UWI, St. Augustine, 2009)
This study focused on students' misconceptions related to ozone depletion and global warming. Six open-ended diagnostic questions were administered to 103 randomly selected lower secondary school science students in Trinidad ...
"Context" - The Magic of Foreign Language Teaching
(School of Education, UWI, St. Augustine, 2010)
This paper examines the issue of "context" in foreign language teaching. It focuses on nine teachers at the secondary school level in Trinidad and Tobago who were students in a one-year in-service professional development ...
The Effect of a Multi-User Virtual Environment on Student Causal Reasoning Ability, Ecological Worldview and Conceptual Change
(2014-01-17)
This study sought to determine the effect of a multi-user virtual environment (EcoMUVE) on the ecological worldviews and reasoning abilities of students at a secondary school in Trinidad and Tobago. Data were collected ...
Stirring the Imagination
(Daily Express, 2009)
This article discusses the difficulties encountered by many secondary school teachers in attempting to introduce creative teaching methods to their classrooms. The article reports on an experience of a workshop that utilized ...
A case study of how two teachers epistemologies [sic]: Their beliefs about science and science teaching and learning, are enhanced or changed by exposure to explicit reflective activities and a series of lessons which include a consideration of the Nature of Science
(2013-04-02)
This study examined two teachers' beliefs about the nature of science and about teaching and learning science at a secondary school in Trinidad and Tobago. It further sought to assess the influence of explicit reflective ...
Secondary science teachers' metaphors: A case study, Part 1
(School of Education, UWI, St. Augustine, 2009)
This case study sought to gain insights into a group of secondary science teachers' conceptions of teaching through an analysis of their metaphors. In addition, lesson plans, classroom observations, and artifacts produced ...
Utility of mathematical knowledge as a motivating factor in students' learning of Adult Secondary Education
(University of Patras. Department of Educational Sciences and Early Childhood Education, 2019-06)
This paper analyzes the utility of the mathematics for Adult Secondary Education (ASE) as a factor to recover motivation in learning. The results of a survey with N=820 ASE students about their perspectives of the utility ...