Do Elementary Science Methods Textbooks Facilitate the Understanding of Magnet Concepts?

Lloyd H. Barrow

Journal of Science Education and Technology Vol. 9, No. 3 (2000) pp. 199–205

Examines elementary science methods textbooks to determine how magnet concepts are presented. Focuses on the organization, sequence of concepts, and potential misconceptions, and includes types of investigations. Analyzed 11 elementary science...

Elementary Science Education Library Resources in Graduate and Undergraduate Teacher Education Programs of New England

Lloyd H. Barrow

Elementary science educational library resources in New England graduate and undergraduate teacher education institutions were compared using a 31-item survey instrument developed for library directors. Data were obtained from 62 institutions with...

A Reanalysis of Engineering Majors' Self-Efficacy Beliefs

James P. Concannon; Lloyd H. Barrow

Journal of Science Education and Technology Vol. 21, No. 6 (December 2012) pp. 742–753

This study examines differences in women's engineering self-efficacy beliefs across grade levels in comparison to men's engineering self-efficacy (ESE) beliefs across grade levels. Data for this study was collected from 746 (635 men, 111 women)...

Online Periodic Table: A Cautionary Note

Kemal Izci; Lloyd H. Barrow; Erica Thornhill

Journal of Science Education and Technology Vol. 22, No. 4 (August 2013) pp. 402–417

The purpose of this study was (a) to evaluate ten online periodic table sources for their accuracy and (b) to compare the types of information and links provided to users. Limited studies have been reported on online periodic table (Diener and Moore ...

Men's and Women's Intentions to Persist in Undergraduate Engineering Degree Programs

James P. Concannon; Lloyd H. Barrow

Journal of Science Education and Technology Vol. 19, No. 2 (April 2010) pp. 133–145

This is a quantitative study of 493 undergraduate engineering majors' intentions to persist in their engineering program. Using a multiple analysis of variance analysis, men and women had one common predictor for their intentions to persist,...

A Cross-Sectional Study of Engineering Students' Self-Efficacy by Gender, Ethnicity, Year, and Transfer Status

James P. Concannon; Lloyd H. Barrow

Journal of Science Education and Technology Vol. 18, No. 2 (April 2009) pp. 163–172

This is a cross-sectional study of 519 undergraduate engineering majors' self-efficacy beliefs at a large, research extensive, Midwestern university. Engineering self-efficacy is an individual's belief in his or her ability to successfully negotiate ...

Institutional Research Productivity in Science Education for the 1990s: Top 30 Rankings

Lloyd H. Barrow; John Settlage; Paul J. Germann

Journal of Science Education and Technology Vol. 17, No. 4 (August 2008) pp. 357–365

The purpose of this study was to identify the major science education programs in the United States, where the science education researchers published their research. This research is the first study of the scholarly productivity of science...

How Does Computer Availability Influence Science Achievement?

Meichun Lydia Wen; Lloyd H. Barrow; John Alspaugh

Annual Meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching 2002 (April 2002)

This paper reports on a study investigating the relationship between available computer resources in schools and science achievement. Although the effects of computers on academic achievement has been extensively studied, the results are...