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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 ...
English Literature Texts Chosen for In-School Study: How Congruent Are Teachers’ Text Choices and Adolescent Students’ Reading Interests?
(2014-01-17)
This study explored the congruence between teachers’ English Literature text choices and students’ reading interests at five secondary schools in the St. George East Educational District in Trinidad and Tobago. Data were ...
Sense of place and the teaching/learning of lower secondary science
(School of Education, UWI, St. Augustine, 2008)
This paper explores sense of place as it relates to the learning of science by Form 1 students in a rural, new-sector school in Trinidad. Lim and Calabrese Barton (2006) cite Cobb's (1977) definition of sense of place as ...
Teaching integrated science through the use of interactive worksheets
(School of Education, UWI, St. Augustine, 2014)
In this work, interactive worksheets were used to teach a unit of integrated science to a group of 32 lower secondary school science students in Trinidad and Tobago. Observational checklists, students' journals, and ...
The culture space in the education classroom [PowerPoint presentation]
(2013-07-02)
Comments that the school curriculum of Trinidad and Tobago is culturally irrelevant to our contemporary students have generated much interest in recent years. Following on research previously conducted with community ...
Collaborating to reform science education in context: Issues, challenges, and benefits
(School of Education, UWI, St. Augustine, 2008)
Within recent times, the call for collaboration among stakeholders in education is made with increasing frequency. In current thinking, community building and collaboration are posited as critical elements in school reform. ...
Collaborating to reform science education in context: Issues, challenges, and benefits
(School of Education, UWI, St. Augustine, 2009)
Within recent times, the call for collaboration among stakeholders in education has been made with increasing frequency. In current thinking, community building and collaboration are posited as critical elements in school ...