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| Collection Name: | SpringerLink Online Journals
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| Collection Description: | The SpringerLink Online Journal collection includes more than 1,250 peer-reviewed journals published by Springer Science+Business Media. Through the Online Archives Collection almost every journal is available online from Volume I, Issue I. Springer organizes the Online Journals into fully indexed, fully searchable Subject Collections covering 11 subject and 2 international collections: - Behavioral Science - Biomedical and Life Sciences - Chemistry and Materials Science - Chinese Library of Science - Computer Science - Earth and Environmental Science - Engineering - Social Sciences - Mathematics & Statistics - Medicine - Physics and Astronomy - Russian Library of Science |
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Higher Education
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Http://www.springer.com/east/home/librarians?SGWID=5-117-6-169728-0
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| Resource Type |
Text
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Anthropology
Behavioral Science
Behavioral Science; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Chemistry and Materials Science; Chinese Library Of Science; Computer Science; Earth and Environmental Science; Engineering; Social Sciences; Mathematics and Statistics; Medicine; Physics and Astronomy; Russian Library Of Science
Biological Science
Chemistry
Computer Science
Engineering
General Science
Geography
Geoscience
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Materials Science
Mathematics
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| Resource Title: | The Impact of Student Self-efficacy on Scientific Inquiry Skills: An Exploratory Investigation in River City, a Multi-user Virtual Environment
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| Description: | This exploratory study investigated data-gathering behaviors exhibited by 100 seventh-grade students as they participated in a scientific inquiry-based curriculum project delivered by a multi-user virtual environment (MUVE). This research examined the relationship between students’ self-efficacy on entry into the authentic scientific activity and the longitudinal data-gathering behaviors they employed while engaged in that process. Three waves of student behavior data were gathered from a server-side database that recorded all student activity in the MUVE; these data were analyzed using individual growth modeling. The study found that self-efficacy correlated with the number of data-gathering behaviors in which students initially engaged, with high self-efficacy students engaging in more data gathering than students with low self-efficacy. Also, the impact of student self-efficacy on rate of change in data gathering behavior differed by gender. However, by the end of their time in the MUVE, initial student self-efficacy no longer correlated with data gathering behaviors. In addition, students’ level of self-efficacy did not affect how many different sources from which they chose to gather data. These results suggest that embedding science inquiry curricula in novel platforms like a MUVE might act as a catalyst for change in students’ self-efficacy and learning processes. |
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Additional Resource Information
| Author |
Diane Jass Ketelhut
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| Bibliographic Citation |
Journal Of Science Education and Technology 16(1), 99-111. (2007)
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| Intended Audience |
Graduate
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| Language |
En
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| Publisher / Resource Provider |
Kluwer Academic Publishers
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| Resource Format |
Application/pdf
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| Resource Type |
Text
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| Subject Keyword(s) |
Education
Educational Technology
Science Education
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