02044nam a22002777a 4500 OSt 20241028105543.0 241028b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0021-9266 DSSC Per 620.8 H894 2016 Hung-Shan, Lee 11749 Journal of Biological Education 11209 Sharks in your hands: A case study on effects of teaching strategies to change knowledge and attitudes towards sharks by Hung-Shan Lee, Shiang-Yao Liu and Ting-Kuang Yeh 345-357 text unmediated volume 50(3) 0021-9266 This study was designed to exemplify how hands-on based teaching strategies enhanced students' knowledge and positive attitudes towards sharks. Hands-on activities for sharks' biological and morphological features were carried out. Eleven elementary school students from a remote area in Taiwan were recruited and assigned to the hands-on condition. They were encouraged to draw pictures of sharks before and after the instruction as the main data for pre- and post-test comparison. Two years later, the retention test and attitude inventory towards sharks were implemented. The results revealed that large effect size emerged for both the post-test and retention test. In regards to attitude inventory, students involved in hands-on activities also significantly outperformed the baseline group. Many of them have taken notice of television programs and books about sharks or marine ecology since the hands-on activities, indicating the instruction had a beneficial impact on their extracurricular lives. Empirical findings of this study suggest hands-on instruction is a powerful strategy for learning, both for immediate and prolonged effects on improving students' knowledge and attitudes toward sharks. Sharks 11750 Marine environment 11751 Liu, Shiang-Yao 11752 Yeh, Ting-Kuang 11753 ddc PINDEX 8447 8447 0 0 ddc 0 0 SPMT-CAS SPMT-CAS 2024-10-28 0 Per 620.8 H894 2016 2024-10-28 00:00:00 2024-10-28 PINDEX