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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"Nature of Science"”.
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The Nature of Science: Teachers’ Views and Pedagogies
The purpose of this study is to explore how science teachers understand and teach the Nature of Science (NOS), which is an aspect of scientific literacy that can help address science denial in society. Qualitative data were collected from single interviews with twelve participants and single …
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Exploring school students' views of the nature of science
… test to assess in a quick manner the views of the nature of science (NoS) of groups of secondary school students and to explore the issues involved in developing such tests. The Nature of Science Test (NoST) used episodes from the history of science as contexts for questions. For each aspect …
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Evolution Acceptance, Religiosity, and Nature of Science in an Undergraduate Population
<p>Decades of research into the acceptance of evolutionary biology have revealed a number of factors that are related to an individual’s choice to accept or reject evolutionary biology. This work seeks to extend that work in the following key ways: (1) Use a longitudinal time frame, along with …
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Primary Teachers' Understandings Of The Nature Of Science And The Purposes Of Science Education
With the introduction of the National Curriculum in English primary schools in the late 1980s, the status of science changed from discretionary option, taught to the teacher’s strengths, to mandated core subject with tightly defined curriculum. During the first few years, teachers’ initial …
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An empirical evaluation of students' perceptions of the nature of science : a comparison between groups
In 1991 Evans and Schibeci used a modified Views of Science-Technology-Society (VOSTS) instrument to assess 434 Australian students' views on selected aspects of the Science-Technology-Society (STS) theme. In South Africa , Parker and Rochford (1995), and the writer Edwards et al. (1997) conducted …
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The relationship between views of the nature of science and views of the nature of scientific measurements
… between researchers at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and the University of York, UK, which focused or undergraduate physics students' understanding of measurement and uncertainty. The work led to the development of a paradigmatic model which has been found to be useful for …
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Influence of views about the nature of science in decision-making about socio-scientific and pseudo-scientific issues
The purpose of this study was determine which ideas about the nature of science (NOS) were used by students to make decisions regarding a variety of contexts. 128 undergraduates, enrolled in a Science and Society course, were asked to decide what action they would take—both at the start and the end …
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Enriching science trade books with explicit-reflective nature of science instruction: impacting elementary teachers' practice and improving students' learning
The present study investigated the impact of elementary science trade books, which were modified to include explicit-reflective nature of science (NOS) references, on four variables: teachers' views of NOS, changes in teaching practices during a read-aloud of the trade book, students' interaction …
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The Effect of a Content -Embedded Explicit -Reflective Approach on Inservice Teachers' Views and Practices Related to Nature of Science
… in the two focus groups planned for selected science units and implemented these units in their classrooms. This phase aimed to investigate the impact of the intervention and acquired NOS understandings on participants' instructional planning and delivery related to NOS, and to understand the …
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Unveiling the Masculinity of Science: A Journey into the Reactions and Reflections of Female Science Teachers to the Nature of Science
This study investigated how eight female science teachers in a Consciousness Raising focus group viewed science and how they responded to the message that the nature of science is a masculine, social construct. Using the framework of Feminist Standpoint Theory and Critical Race Feminism, I …
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The relationship between teachers' understanding of the nature of science and their science practice : four case studies from an urban primary school.
… relationship between a teacher's understanding of the nature of science and her practice. The idea that teachers' understanding of the nature of science is a powerful determinant of their actions in the classroom has a strong intuitive appeal. Research over the last forty years has provided …
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The effects of introductory (non-science major) physics courses on students' view of the nature of science : the roles of instructional type and religiosity
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Tinkering with Nature of Science (NOS) learning: The development of an evidence-based coding framework to identify primary pupils’ encounters with NOS when Tinkering
… aims to initiate an empirical understanding of the experience of primary school pupils participating in ‘Tinkering’ activities. Specifically, it investigates the opportunities for pupils to encounter and acknowledge aspects of the nature of science (NOS). Tinkering is here defined as an …
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Exploring coherence of grade six students' views of the nature of science (NOS) and their views of the natural world : a South African study
… comprised three parts that were related to each of these aspects. In the first part of the study (i.e., NOS), the focus was on the students’ views of the nature of scientists’ work and the role/purpose of science and, more specifically, on the students’ levels of understanding about five key …
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Developing students' understanding of the nature of science in the context of Alexander von Humboldt's legacy for Grade 5 and Grade 6 classrooms in Baden-Württemberg schools
The main research aim of this Ph-D thesis is to develop students�understanding of the nature of science on the background of Alexander von Humboldt's legacy for Grade 5 and Grade 6 classrooms in Baden-Württemberg schools. The Ph-D research questions are: 1.What conceptions do students of the age …
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Development of the Characteristics of Science Questionnaire (CSQ): Assessing Student Knowledge of the Utah State Secondary Science Core Intended Learning Outcome 6 on the Nature of Science
Teaching students about the nature of science is an important and necessary part of secondary science curricula. The Utah State Office of Education has provided specific guidelines called intended learning outcomes (ILOs) to teachers in the state. The ILOs are based on the national standards …
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Does Attainment of Piaget's Formal Operational Level of Cognitive Development Predict Student Understanding of Scientific Models?
Knowledge of scientific models and their uses is a concept that has become a key benchmark in many of the science standards of the past 30 years, including the proposed Next Generation Science Standards. Knowledge of models is linked to other important nature of science concepts such as theory …
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Does Attainment of Piaget's Formal Operational Level of Cognitive Development Predict Student Understanding of Scientific Models?
Knowledge of scientific models and their uses is a concept that has become a key benchmark in many of the science standards of the past 30 years, including the proposed Next Generation Science Standards. Knowledge of models is linked to other important nature of science concepts such as theory …
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Influences On Biology Students' Acceptance Of Evolution
… variables that influence a person's acceptance of evolution. Variables generally fit into categories of school/knowlege-based understanding and cultural influences. This study investigated those variables that influence students' degreee of acceptance of evolution and determined the relative …
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