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
Explanation‐driven inquiry: Integrating conceptual and epistemic scaffolds for scientific inquiryScience Education - Tập 88 Số 3 - Trang 345-372 - 2004
William A. Sandoval, Brian J. Reiser
AbstractScience education reforms consistently maintain the goal that students develop an understanding of the nature of science, including both the nature of scientific knowledge and methods for making it. This paper articulates a framework for scaffolding epistemic aspects of inquiry that can help students understand inquiry processes in relation to the kinds of ...... hiện toàn bộ