The laboratory in science education: Foundations for the twenty‐first centuryScience Education - Tập 88 Số 1 - Trang 28-54 - 2004
Avi Hofstein, Vincent N. Lunetta
AbstractThe laboratory has been given a central and distinctive role in science education, and science educators have suggested that rich benefits in learning accrue from using laboratory activities. Twenty years have been elapsed since we published a frequently cited, critical review of the research on the school science laboratory (Hofstein & Lunetta, ... hiện toàn bộ
Tangled up in views: Beliefs in the nature of science and responses to socioscientific dilemmasScience Education - Tập 86 Số 3 - Trang 343-367 - 2002
Dana L. Zeidler, Kimberly A. Walker, Wayne A. Ackett, Michael L. Simmons
AbstractThe purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between students' conceptions of the nature of science and their reactions to evidence that challenged their beliefs about socioscientific issues. This study involved 41 pairs of students representing “critical cases” of contrasting ethical viewpoints. These 82 students were identified from a la...... hiện toàn bộ
Primary teachers' attitudes toward science: A new theoretical frameworkScience Education - Tập 96 Số 1 - Trang 158-182 - 2012
S.I. van Aalderen-Smeets, Juliëtte H. Walma van der Molen, Lieke Joske Franci Asma
AbstractAttention to the attitudes of preservice and inservice primary teachers toward science is of fundamental importance to research on primary science education. However, progress in this field of research has been slow due to the poor definition and conceptualization of the construct of primary teachers' attitude toward science. This poor theoretical backgroun...... hiện toàn bộ
Inquiry in science education: International perspectivesScience Education - Tập 88 Số 3 - Trang 397-419 - 2004
Fouad Abd‐El‐Khalick, Saouma BouJaoude, Richard A. Duschl, Norman G. Lederman, Rachel Mamlok‐Naaman, Avi Hofstein, Mansoor Níaz, David F. Treagust, Hsiao‐Lin Tuan
AbstractThis paper set emerged from an international symposium that aimed to shed light on issues associated with the enactment of inquiry both as means (i.e., inquiry as an instructional approach) and as ends (i.e., inquiry as a learning outcome) in precollege science classrooms. The symposium contributors were charged with providing perspectives from their countr...... hiện toàn bộ