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A Study of Interest in Astronomy Among University Students in Malaysia
Jurnal Pendidikan Fisika Indonesia, 2023 The misconception related to astronomy is fretfully rising in society. This study aims to investigate, (i) level of misconception towards astronomy among university students, (ii) significant difference in students’ interest towards astronomy between ...
N.F. Shaafi +3 more
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Astronomy Education Research: Impact and Future Directions [PDF]
EPJ Web of Conferences, 2019 The goal of this talk is to reflect about the achievements and challenges in Astronomy Education Research (AER). First, the answers given to questions asked of members of the IAU Division C’s Commission 1 and Working Group on Theory and Methods in ...
Bretones Paulo S.
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Daily life astronomy activity and its contribution to children and educators in science education [PDF]
EPJ Web of Conferences, 2019 Daily life astronomy activity in nurseries and after school care clubs has many aspects to improve children’s and educator’s scientific views and skills. Though these activities are casual and ordinary ones for many nurseries and after school care clubs,
Tomita Akihiko
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Astronomy: Social representations of students of integrated high school [PDF]
EPJ Web of Conferences, 2019 The contents related to Astronomy studied in basic education in Brazil are not always adequately worked, as their exposure in the media is often full of sensationalism, however, it is in this environment that students form their opinions about this ...
Voelzke Marcos Rincon +1 more
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ACTIVITIES DESIGN OF MOVEMENTS AND PHASES OF THE MOON: SPATIAL SKILL AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT DEVELOPMENT [PDF]
Istraživanja u Pedagogiji, 2022 The aim of this study is to examine the effects of activities developed on the subject of Moon Movements and Phases on the spatial skills and academic achievement of 5th-grade students. For this purpose, a mixed research method was used.
Merve Taşcan, İbrahim Ünal
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Astronomy Education in the East [PDF]
Highlights of Astronomy, 1998 In the IAU, there is the Commission 46 “Teaching of Astronomy” to which at least one representative from each member country belongs. At an occasion of the Asian-Pacific regional meeting of the IAU held in Beijing in 1987, there was a resolution to set up a committee of Teaching of Astronomy in the Asian-Pacific region.
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Predicting community college astronomy performance through logistic regression
Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023 The present study examined demographic and academic predictors of astronomy performance among a cohort of N=1909 community college students enrolled in astronomy courses in a large suburban community college during a four-year time frame, 2015–2019.
Zachary Richards, Angela M. Kelly
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Astronomy and mathematics education [PDF]
Highlights of Astronomy, 2005 Astronomy has an interdisciplinary aspect that in some cases is very positive. It is interesting to combine Astronomy with other topics and introduce Astronomy in general projects in school in order to integrate several courses, for instance Physics, Mathematics, Geography, Biology or History; however these kinds of projects are sporadic.
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Eight years after IYA2009: a successful project of Outreach and Astronomy Education on selected countryside towns in Mexico [PDF]
EPJ Web of Conferences, 2019 We present the main results of a multidisciplinary project on education and outreach in Guanajuato (Mexico). This collaboration was initiated in the International Year of Astronomy (IYA09, IAU-UNESCO, 2009) and is led by a team including astronomers ...
Bravo-Alfaro Hector +6 more
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Spatial thinking in astronomy education research
Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2018 [This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Astronomy Education Research.] Multiple studies show that spatial thinking skills contribute to students’ performance in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines.
Merryn Cole +3 more
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