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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Scientific Reasoning"”.
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Text-based Simulation for Scientific Reasoning
To develop AI systems capable of assisting scientific discovery, it is essential for them to possess strong scientific reasoning abilities. While traditional scientific reasoning has been extensively studied through scientific question answering, modern large language models (LLMs) primarily excel …
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Scientific Reasoning and Epistemological Commitments: Coordination of Theory and Evidence Among College Science Students
… between epistemological commitments and scientific reasoning among college science students. Prior knowledge was considered an intervening factor. Participants were 139 college students enrolled in two physics courses in a large Midwestern university. They completed an online …
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Design and effectiveness of professional learning programs to support teachers in promoting students' scientific reasoning competencies
Promoting students’ scientific reasoning competencies constitutes a crucial goal of science education. However, studies show that students’ scientific reasoning competencies develop only slightly over the course of their school career. Professional learning programs are recognized as an essential …
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Exploratory identification of introductory algebra-based physics success factors
… physics I course to determine if algebra skill, scientific reasoning ability, reading/comprehension level, or student attitude were significant predictors of success in the course. The study found that female physics achievement could be predicted by algebra ability, scientific reasoning skills, …
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SCIENTIFIC REASONING:RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND ASSESSMENT
… knowledge but also the development of general scientific abilities that will enable students to successfully handle open-ended real-world tasks in future careers. One such ability, scientific reasoning, is closely related to a wide range of general cognitive abilities such as critical thinking …
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HOW COMMUNICATION AND CONFIRMATORY STRATEGIES AFFECT THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH
<p>Scientific reasoning has become a topic of recent psychological research. Studies have focused on Karl Popper's idea that scientists should try to falsify, or disconfirm, their hypotheses instead of verifying them. Results indicate that both scientists and college students prefer to use …
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Children's metajudgments in theory choice tasks: An investigation of scientific rationality in childhood
… rather than to differences in underlying reasoning processes. However, critics of this view claim that children differ from scientists in that they lack certain metacognitive competencies that characterize mature scientific reasoning."
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Existence of God: An Examination of the Cosmological Arguments as Proof of the Existence of God
… concept which is supported by both theistic and scientific reasoning. Bertrand Russell and David Hume are critical of the cosmological arguments, however, the cosmological arguments of Thomas Aquinas and Bruce Reichenbach are able to overcome the objections presented by Russell and Hume.
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The influence of an inherence heuristic on scientific explanation
Although scientific reasoning is usually deliberate, it may also be influenced by the intuitive processes involved in everyday reasoning. Here, I investigated whether explanatory heuristic processes biased towards inherence (that is, the tendency to oversample easily-accessible inherent facts; …
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Analysis of scientific argumentation in two physical chemistry classrooms using the POGIL approach
… in argumentation has shown to model authentic scientific inquiry as well as promote development of content knowledge. However, less emphasis has been placed on facilitating argumentation in upper level undergraduate courses, though it is important for evaluating undergraduate curricula to …
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The development and implementation of a heuristic for teaching reflective scientific skepticism within a socio-scientific issue instructional framework
… replies that spread misinformation about a socio-scientific issue such as a disease outbreak, genetically modified foods, or vaccine safety. Other times, as in the case of climate change denial, science ideas may be deliberately distorted in order to manipulate public opinion toward a special …
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Responsible Computational Text Generation: AI Content Classification and Policy Framework
… on stochastic generation rather than traditional scientific reasoning, concerns about misinformation and reliability have emerged, highlighting the need for AI detection tools and policy guidelines. In response, this study proposes a dual approach: (1) the application of adaptive thresholds to …
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Correlates of gender and achievement in introductory algebra based physics
… gender identity, social network, algebra skill, scientific reasoning ability, and/or student attitude, a study was performed on a group of 82 students in an introductory algebra based physics course. The subjects each filled out a survey at the beginning of the semester of their first semester of …
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Abductive reasoning and limitations of the knower
… on a newly designed measure of abductive reasoning (Hertzog, Hale, & Krepps, 2015). Abductive reasoning is reasoning to the best explanation based on given evidence. This evidence can be incomplete and the best explanation does not need to be the correct explanation. This is similar to …
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An analysis of pre-service teachers‘ ability to use a dialogical argumentation instructional model to solve mathematical problems in physics
… training and feedback on how to construct scientific reasoning and to express proficiency in advancing solutions to problems. They also received training and feedback in critiquing and justifying claims that connect the use of math-in-physics. The pre-service teachers were divided into …
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Cognitive development and the attainment of critical thinking skills in associate degree nursing students
… development, formal operations, involves reasoning skills that appear to relate to the traits of critical thinking. The current study was designed to assess whether a relationship exists between the level of cognitive development (as measured by the Lawson Classroom Test of Scientific …
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An Investigation of the Practice of Scientific Inquiry in Secondary Science and Agriculture Courses
… study was to investigate the practice of scientific inquiry in two secondary biology classes and one agriculture class from different schools in different communities. The focus was on teachers' interests and intentions for the students' participation in inquiry, the voices contributing to …
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Of Method: A Propaedeutic to Coleridge's Prose Works
… animus of a kind of philosophy that counteracts scientific reasoning and evinces philosophy as a seeking after and love for knowledge–never completely pragmatic but requiring a non-scientific, sublime, and necessarily pretentious imagining of knowledge’s absolute ground in order to make analysis …
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Cancer from a spatial perspective : locating the unspeakable, healing, and hope
… understanding of cancer can thus decentre the scientific reasoning of biomedicine and redefines healing as located within the very experience of illness itself. The spatial perspective, I argue, offers a fuller and more complex vision of the relationship between illness, death and dying that …
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