A comparison of the preferred learning styles of year 5, year 7 and year 9 students in science using the science laboratory environment inventory (SLEI) and a cooperative learning unit of work based on multiple intelligences

Research has shown that students are increasingly disinterested in science (Gallagher, 1996). One only has to walk through the corridors of almost any secondary school to realise that students find science boring, irrelevant, not applicable and abstract. There is little doubt that if the science lea...

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Main Author: Pfeiffer, Linda Gay
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Curtin University 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/502