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Comparing Science Achievement Constructs: Targeted and Achieved

The Educational Forum, 2011
Abstract This article illustrates how test specifications based solely on academic content standards, without attention to other cognitive skills and item response demands, can fall short of their targeted constructs. First, the authors inductively describe the science achievement construct represented by a statewide sixth-grade science proficiency ...
Steve Ferrara, Teresa Duncan
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Science Standards, Science Achievement, and Attitudes About Evolution

Educational Policy, 2014
This article explores the relationships between (a) the quality of state science standards and student science achievement, (b) the public’s belief in teaching evolution and the quality of state standards, and (c) the public’s belief in teaching evolution and student science achievement.
Charlie M. Belin, Brian Kisida
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Science, Technology Achievements Honored

Chemical & Engineering News Archive, 1998
Three chemists and a chemical engineer were recipients of four of nine 1998 National Medals of Science announced by President Bill Clinton last week.
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Teaching behaviour and science achievement

Research in Science Education, 1979
This study is of interest for a number of reasons. The first relates to the measures used to assess teacher behaviour and the comprehensive procedures followed to establish reliability. The second is associated with the large sample size which represents nearly the entire population.
R. Lewis, J. P. Keeves
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Predicting Science Achievement in India

Journal of Career Assessment, 2013
We examined the role of self-reported effort in predicting chemistry and physics achievement after controlling for prior achievement, gender, and mathematics/science self-efficacy and interest. The data were collected from two Asian Indian high school samples. Self-reported effort was hypothesized to be the most salient predictor of achievement, given
Larson, Lisa, Stephen, Asha, Bonitz, Verena, Wu, Tsui-Feng   +3 more
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Prime Science Achieved at Asteroid

Science, 2011
At the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Japanese researchers announced that detailed analyses of the sample the Hayabusa spacecraft returned from asteroid Itokawa have confirmed that the most common type of meteorite falls to Earth from a class of asteroids long cloaked by a mysterious discoloration.
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Classroom dialogue and science achievement

Research in Science Education, 1988
This study indicates the responsibility that rests with the teacher in an activity-oriented classroom as far as providing the structural support necessary for effective learning (Note 4). The teacher is acting as a “surrogate textbook”. Using their own organization of knowledge-albiet wrong or incomplete-teachers provide the structure that is lacking ...
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Achievements in science, technology honored

Chemical & Engineering News Archive, 2000
Three chemists are among the nine recipients—including three Nobel Laureates—of the 1999 National Medal of Science. Four individuals and one company will receive the National Medal of Technology. The awards were announced by President Bill Clinton on Jan. 31.
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The Management Science Achievement Award

Interfaces, 1979
A major purpose of the College on the Practice of Management Science is “to focus attention of the management community and the public on the great value of the practice of Management Science and Operations Research.” To that end, the College on the Practice of Management Science sponsors the annual international Management Science Achievement Award ...
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Achievement of Twins in Science

The Journal of Experimental Education, 1951
Numerous studies have been made regarding the resemblance of twins in physical and mental characteristics, but few studies have been con cerned with the resemblance of twins in academ ic achievement in specific areas. As part of a comprehensive study of science instruction in fifty-six Minnesota high schools, 1 the writer was able to identify several ...
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