Science Education Curriculum

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This paper proposes a research design to assess the potential effects of a new science education curriculum for fifth grade students on student performance in science education and student attitudes toward science education. Additionally, the study seeks to assess differences associated with the new science education curriculum for fifth grade students in relation to variations in student learning styles.

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Research Questions
Independent and Dependent Variables
Control for Threats to Internal Validity
Appropriate Statistical Analysis Procedure
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"The study would be structured as a Non-Equivalent Groups Design (NEGD). Among the 20 elementary schools with a fifth grade, student characteristics and performance in the accessible classrooms would be reviewed to identify four classrooms with the greatest potential for equivalency. In relation to the four classrooms so identified, random procedures would be applied to assign two classrooms to control conditions and two classrooms to experimental conditions. This procedure, however, would not cause this design to be randomized, as individual students would not be assigned to control or experimental conditions on the basis of random selection."

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