Sentences with phrase «lacked confidence in science»

Inspectors said some primary teachers lacked confidence in science and too few took up extra training in the subject.

She recalls, in the past, teachers seemed to lack confidence in science and it wasn't a favourite subject for many of them.

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Preschool instructors appear to lack the knowledge, skills and confidence to effectively teach their young students science — a problem that is likely contributing to America's poor global performance in this crucially important subject.

Sharon believes that many young women with families lack confidence in their abilities — including their ability to couple a full commitment to science with family life.

The members of one group, mainly women, lacked confidence because their previous experiences in learning science were limited or far from satisfying.

«They admit themselves they lack confidence and in some cases competence in teaching maths and science, so those are two areas where I think we can certainly do a degree of specialisation.»

Professional development is especially critical in elementary school math and science, because elementary teachers tend to lack content knowledge and confidence in these subjects.

The Teacher Education Ministerial Advisory Group (TEMAG) has observed declining levels of student engagement and participation in maths and science, as well as an overall lack of teacher confidence in these areas.

The U.S. elementary teaching force continues to lack knowledge and confidence in science concepts (Fulp, 2002).

Girls still lack confidence in pursuing high - paid careers in science and technology, even when their school results are as good or better than boys, says an international study.

The lack of reproducibility of scientific research undermines public confidence in science and leads to the misuse of resources when researchers attempt to replicate and extend fallacious research findings.

Muller, who lacks any training or expertise in atmospheric science, is more than happy to promote with great confidence the unsupportable claim that global warming will actually decrease tornado activity.

Correction to previous post -» I keep urging our Australian conservatives, who continue giving climate science denial and obstructionism their imprimatur of respectability and legitimacy whilst simultaneously declaring their confidence in mainstream climate science to ditch that position; is this a taste of what we will get when we do get a conservative government; public declarations of commitment to international agreements that gloss over a complete lack of understanding of it's seriousness?»

I keep urging our Australian conservatives, who continue giving climate science denial and obstructionism their imprimatur of respectability and legitimacy whilst simultaneously declaring their confidence in mainstream climate science; is this a taste of what we will get when we do get a conservative government; public declarations of commitment to international agreements that gloss over a complete lack of understanding of it's seriousness?

I do have a science background (long time ago) but do not have sufficient knowledge of climate science to be able to instantly spot the problems in the non-science stuff posted at places like WUWT (and even worse, I lack the confidence in my own ability to state what I believe to be the problems without confirmation from another source).