Sentence examples for students alternative from inspiring English sources

He focuses on African-American literature — not just books about black dysfunction, readily available in the marketplace, but a variety of texts that give students alternative role models to those provided by the media, who are too often seen toting semiautomatic weapons.

Students' alternative conceptions, such as folk taxonomy groupings, can cause individuals to generate a variety of inaccurate responses when interpreting and explaining scientific concepts.

Both preservice and practicing teachers had difficulties identifying the underlying conceptual difficulties in students' alternative conceptions, for instance a view of evolution as intentional and purposeful.

Developing TTMC items draws on literature on students' alternative conceptions that have been conducted over the past 20 years or so.

We need to focus equally on students' alternative conceptions of science content as well as their attitudes, priorities, and decision-making regarding science learning and environmental issues.

For example within the Singapore context, Chandrasegaran et al. (2007) developed TTMC items that could identify secondary school students' alternative conceptions when describing and reasoning about chemical reactions using multiple representations.

"There's been a tremendous push toward small schools ever since Columbine," said Anthony Arenella, a founder and the teacher in charge of the A School, as Scarsdale High School's 75-student alternative high school is known.

A large body of work in science education has delineated a daunting compendium of student alternative conceptions about natural selection (Duit 2004; Nehm and Schonfeld 2007, 2008, 2010).

The multiple definitions for biological terms may also play a role in student alternative conceptions.

In the first stage of this study, we used an iterative process to identify and verify student alternative conceptions in biology topics; this involved rounds of literature searches, interviews with college students, and discussion with colleagues (as in Smith et al., 2008; Abraham et al., 2012; Hiatt et al., 2013; Table 2).

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