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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Scientific Thinking"”.
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Scientific thinking in kindergarten
Contains fulltext : 170681.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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The development of scientific thinking with senior school physics students
The phrases like ‘scientific thinking’, ‘scientific method’ and ‘scientific attitude’ are all widely used and frequently appear in school curriculum guides but the meaning of such phrases is much less clear. In addition, there is little about how such skills might be taught or assessed. In the …
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Is it Psychosomatic? - An Inquiry into the Nature and Role of Medical Concepts
… as can be seen in the long history of medical thinking. The purpose of this essay is to illustrate medical thinking through examining the formation and use of one example of a particular medical concept “psychosomatic” in medical theory and practice. The approach taken in this essay reflects …
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Is student achievement really immutable? : A study of cognitive development and student achievement in an Oregon school district
… change in national achievement outcomes, the Scientific Thinking Enhancement Project (STEP) was delivered to three cohorts of students from 1999 to 2002 in Molalla, Oregon. At the start, the mean age of Cohorts A, B, and C was 11+, 12+, and 13+ years. The purpose of my study was to investigate …
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Abductive reasoning and limitations of the knower
… be the correct explanation. This is similar to scientific thinking because it involves generating and gathering support for or against a given hypothesis. This study also used a religious salience manipulation to prime participants. Previous work has shown that a religious salience manipulation …
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Lethal Surveillance: Drones and the Geo-History of Modern War
… I place squarely within the histories of modern scientific thinking and Western liberal governance, allows us to see how techniques of Western state power and knowledge production are merging with practices of killing and control in new ways, causing significant changes to both the operations of …
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The impact of an immersive professional development program on K-8 inservice teachers' planning and implementation of reform based science lessons and self-efficacy for teaching science in the classroom
… in developing student's ability to reason scientifically. These findings support the notion that change is needed in how professional development programs prepare K-8 teachers to implement reform based measures in the science classroom. Professional development designers have proposed an …
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Exploring Urban Latina Third-Graders’ Scientific Communication and Identity Development
… they must recognize the diversity within scientific fields and how their interests and skills align with them. Stereotypical images of science and scientists often lead young girls who view themselves as “outsiders” to believe that science is an exclusive domain. Research in classroom …
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The ties that bind: Irish homes and post-war emigration to North London
… everyday life. In light of historical and social scientific thinking on migration and diaspora space, these homes were also the site of shared and contested memories, histories, and multi-vocal identities. They were also sites of interconnection, in this case, between Ireland and North London. In …
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Tempo geológico e o ensino de Biologia: investigando uma proposta de Sequência Didática baseada em Design Research.
… in Geoscience, decisive for the evolution of scientific thinking and paradigm shift that culminated in the acceptance that the history of humanity is much more recent than the history of the planet, Geological Time is fundamental for teaching Evolution and for perception of emerging …
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DEVELOPING CREATIVITY IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TWO CASE STUDIES IN PRESCHOOLS IN THAILAND
… literature-based programme and the other applies scientific thinking skills and thinking-process skills as part of the curriculum as a means of enhancing creativity. The data was gathered through participant observation, interviews with class teachers, analysis of school curriculum documents and …
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“In the outskirts”: Exploring science identity development in biology education using insect natural history collections and self-determination theory
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-12-04 without embargo terms
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Sexist implications of law’s fidelity to science and reason
The central thesis concerns rationality, scientificity, and sexism in criminal law, and egalitarianism in constitutional law. It is proposed that sexism in criminal law results from the rationalistic and scientific biases of criminal law practice and discourse. Rationality bears an historical, …
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Deconstructing Clinical Practice and Searching for Scientific Foundations: Examining decision-making scaffolds underpinning intervention choices by speech and language therapists
… and language therapy (SLT) is purported to be a scientifically-based discipline. A commitment to scientific practice is currently best represented by practicing in an evidenced-based way, specifically by the use of research evidence, yet studies examining the use of research evidence both within …
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Talak dalam perspektif Sayyid Quthb dan Quraish Shihab
… literatur. Paradigma yang digunakanadalah scientific paradigm (Paradigma Ilmiah) dengan melakukan penelitian pada buku, yang lebih dikenal dengan libraryresearch. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian, dapat ditarik kesimpulan bahwa Sayyid Qutb dalam penafsirannya, memandang hukum talak sebagai …
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Teorias sociais implícitas nos índices e sistemas de indicadores: uma contribuição estatística ao estudo do desenvolvimento
… public information. Moreover, the evolution of scientific thinking on development converges increasingly to a perception disciplinary, complex and intangible. From this perspective, the current methods used in the construction of indexes and systems of social indicators, to be insufficient to …
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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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Improving the training of pre-service physics teachers in Malaysia using didaktik analysis
… examined the use of a didaktik-based approach to thinking about teaching and learning to the training of pre-service physics teachers in a Malaysian teacher training programme. The process of developing a specific content knowledge (real or true physics) was done through a didaktik analysis of …