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Michigan Technological University

2012

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Investigation Of The Effect Of Using Data Collection Technology On Students' Attitudes To Science Instruction , R. Douglas Damery Jan 2012

Investigation Of The Effect Of Using Data Collection Technology On Students' Attitudes To Science Instruction , R. Douglas Damery

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The purpose of this project was to investigate the effect of using of data collection technology on student attitudes towards science instruction. The study was conducted over the course of two years at Madison High School in Adrian, Michigan, primarily in college preparatory physics classes, but also in one college preparatory chemistry class and one environmental science class. A preliminary study was conducted at a Lenawee County Intermediate Schools student summer environmental science day camp. The data collection technology used was a combination of Texas Instruments TI-84 Silver Plus graphing calculators and Vernier LabPro data collection sleds with various probeware …