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
“Chemistry for all, instead of chemistry just for the elite”: Lessons learned from detracked chemistry classroomsScience Education - Tập 91 Số 5 - Trang 683-709 - 2007
Maika Watanabe, Nicole L. Nunes, Sheryl Dee Mebane, Kathleen Scalise, Jennifer Claesgens
AbstractWithin the already limited literature on instructional practices in detracked classrooms, there are even fewer research‐based studies of detracked science classrooms. This article attempts to address this gap in the research literature, delving into the unique challenges and instructional responses to teaching detracked science. The authors report on a case...... hiện toàn bộ
“Experiments” and the inquiry emphasis conflation in science teacher educationScience Education - Tập 95 Số 5 - Trang 908-926 - 2011
Jakob Gyllenpalm, Per‐Olof Wickman
AbstractThis article examines the use and role of the term “experiment” in science teacher education as described by teacher students. Data were collected through focus group interviews conducted at seven occasions with 32 students from six well‐known Swedish universities. The theoretical framework is a sociocultural and pragmatist perspective on language and learn...... hiện toàn bộ
Classroom communities' adaptations of the practice of scientific argumentationScience Education - Tập 95 Số 2 - Trang 191-216 - 2011
Leema K. Berland, Brian J. Reiser
AbstractScientific argumentation is increasingly seen as a key inquiry practice for students in science classrooms. This is a complex practice that entails three overlapping, instructional goals: Participants articulate their understandings and work to persuade others of t...... 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
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