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标题：Investigating student attitudes and achievements in an environmental place-based inquiry in secondary classrooms
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作者：Brian T. Gautreau ; Ian C. Binns
期刊名称：International Journal of Environmental and Science Education
电子版ISSN：1306-3065
出版年度：2012
卷号：7
期号：2
页码：167-195
出版社：IJESE
摘要：Student attitudes toward science and content achievements were examined in three second-ary Biology I classrooms using an environmentally place-based curriculum as well as a tra-ditional curriculum. Student attitudes were measured using Likert-scale science attitude surveys administered at the beginning of the school year and once again following comple-tion of weeklong ecology curricula. Content achievements were assessed on a pre- and post-test as well as an end-of-unit test. The quantitative results show some attitude measures are correlated with ability-group tracking, and that little change in science atti-tudes occurred during the course of the study for the three groups. Results also indicate that overall test scores on an end-of-unit test were not significantly different between the in-quiry-based and traditional curricula. Qualitative analysis of the pre- and post-tests show growth in ecology knowledge for all three classrooms, with the Inquiry-Based Academic Class achieving the greatest gains. The results warrant an exploration of curricula that use place-based inquiry as a teaching tool and learning goal by educators interested in student content achievements and keeping science attitudes from decreasing while fostering critical thinking skills
关键词：environmental education; place-based education; inquiry; standardized testing