Science and Society in the Classroom: Using Sociocultural Perspectives to Develop Science Education
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List of Tables

Table 1. Research plan: Effectiveness of a traditional and a contextualized science curriculum on middle school students in an urban setting.

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Table 2. Demographics of the student sample.

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Table 3. Demographics of participating teachers and the second observer.

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Table 4. Thematic overview of Earth's waters in the school district–adopted curriculum.

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Table 5. Conceptual overview of Earth's waters in the SEPUP curriculum.

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Table 6. Timeline for the study.

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Table 7. Design of the study.

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Table 8. Intercorrelations among content acquisition pre- and posttest scores, sixth-grade proficiency scores, end of quarter grades, and sixth-grade GPAs.

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Table 9. Paired sample statistics for student pre- and posttest content acquisition scores.

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