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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"scientific explanations"”.
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The Nature Of Scientific Explanation (NOSE): Using a philosophically guided framework to examine the nature and quality of scientific explanations constructed by freshman college students, science teachers, and practicing scientists
Issues regarding scientific explanation have been of interest to philosophers from Pre-Socratic times. The notion of scientific explanation is of interest not only to philosophers, but also to science educators as is clearly evident in the emphasis given to K-12 students’ construction of …
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Towards a Characterisation of Science Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge of Scientific Explanation. An Exploratory Multiple Case Study.
… science practices as a means to achieve scientific literacy. This thesis targets one practice: the construction of explanations. To successfully integrate this practice into their classroom, teachers need a particular body of knowledge known as Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK). There …
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Social Acceptance of Woody Biomass Energy: Expectations, Risks, and Uncertainties in Montana
… energy are technical, and require rational, scientific explanations of social and environmental effects, others transcend science and require value-based judgments, tradeoffs, and political choices. In addition, findings suggest that while questions of function (Can forests help fuel our …
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Social Acceptance of Woody Biomass Energy: Expectations, Risks, and Uncertainties in Montana
… energy are technical, and require rational, scientific explanations of social and environmental effects, others transcend science and require value-based judgments, tradeoffs, and political choices. In addition, findings suggest that while questions of function (Can forests help fuel our …
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Towards explanatory pluralism in cognitive science
… I attempt to clarify whether the sort of scientific explanations proposed for various cognitive phenomena at different levels of analysis or abstraction differ in significant ways from the explanations offered in other areas of scientific inquiry, such as biology, chemistry, or even …
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Tracing Pathways and Decomposing Mechanisms in Ecology
… of mechanisms and offering mechanistic explanations. But other terms are also employed by scientists, like ‘pathway.’ Carl Craver, a New Mechanist, claims that ‘mechanism’ can do the work of ‘pathway’ and equates these terms (2007, 3). However, this fundamentalist approach runs afoul of …
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The Next Generation and Texas Science: Life Science Teacher’s Use of Literacy and Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Assessing Students’ Abilities to Engage in Science Practices, A Three Article Dissertation
… as an avenue to promote students’ proficiency of scientific practices. To do this, a progressive three-article dissertation format was followed to complete a qualitative evidence synthesis of three NSTA journals, conduct an exploratory case study of three life science teachers, and develop an …
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Study of the Metabolic Effects of Water-alcoholic Extracts of Heartwoods with Traditional Use in Bulgaria // Проучване метаболитните ефекти на водно-алкохолни екстракти от дървесини с традиционно приложение в България
… years. Many investigations are focused on the scientific explanations of the national traditions. Knowledge of the therapeutic effects of the arboreal species is based on the use of their fruits, leaves, flowers and bark. Polyphenol content and antioxidant activity of heartwoods traditionally …
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Towards a Mapping Account of Applicability: An Exposition, Explanation, and Justification of the Representational Conception of Applied Mathematics
… against the possibility of genuine platonistic explanations of physical phenomena. This is necessary as if there were such explanations they would entail that platonistic mathematics is not extrinsic to what actually goes on in the physical world, and that a purely representational conception of …
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Empirical Accuracy and Consistency in College Students' Knowledge of Classical Astronomy
… astronomical phenomena and the nature of those explanations, moving beyond existing research of astronomy misconceptions and shedding new light on the nature of knowledge representation and the stability of knowledge. Fifty college students answered a questionnaire that asked for explanations of …
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Bored As Hell: Reading Boredom in Modern Literature
… It aims to understand boredom outside of scientific explanatory models, which often produce a list of causes and effects in a diagnostic language. I ask, what can literary depictions of boredom tell us about boredom in a way that scientific explanations can’t? The texts examined feature …
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Instructional Design: Development, implementation and evaluation of a teaching sequence about plant nutrition in Saudi
… focus on the construction and practice of scientific explanations. Based on evaluation results, some revisions were identified and a set of guidelines for teaching plant nutrition in Saudi schools was developed. Findings from interviews with teachers and students point out that both the …
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Prediction and Explanation in Disorders of Mood & Anxiety
… and measurement also remains unknown. Bridging scientific explanations with first-person experiences of depression and anxiety has been perhaps unsurprisingly difficult due to the complexity of internal and external factors, and their interactions. Despite continued resistance, DSM categories of …
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Racism in novels : a comparative study of Brazilian and South African cultural history
… segregation worldwide, bringing a new wave of scientific explanations and a political and social demand for ending colonization on the African continent and racial segregation in the United States. As the features of South African politics and policies of exclusion emerged with new colours for …
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Designing Better Scaffolding in Teaching Complex Systems with Graphical Simulations
… normative concepts and providing coherent scientific explanations); (2) understanding of the deep causal structure (i.e., being able to grasp and transfer the causal knowledge of a complex system). The study used a computer-based simulation environment as the research platform to teach the …
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Discursive interactions in a Brazilian primary school: an exploratory case study
… when teachers and students collectively built scientific explanations. In whole-class teaching, episodes of teachers’ dialogic practices were analysed and revealed which conditions favoured such emergence. Overall, this research sheds light on the potentialities and challenges of dialogic …
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Exploring middle school students' sensemaking of a gesture-augmented computer simulation depicting thermal conduction
… social, epistemic, and cognitive dimensions of scientific sensemaking (Duschl, 2008). If the goal of science instruction is to move students’ sensemaking activities toward those of the scientific community, then we need to know what dimensions of sensemaking are involved in different scientific …
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The Evolution of Social Organisms: Modelling Reproduction Strategy
… with reference to their value in generating good scientific explanations of the sorts of phenomena found in the types of systems I am studying.
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Engaging A Middle School Teacher And Students In Formal-Informal Science Education: Context Of Science Standards-Based Curriculum And Urban Science Center
… understanding about kinetic energy; formulating scientific explanations; and translating energy transformation. The discourse-excerpts representing the aforementioned instructional events revealed four teacher behaviors: teacher-posed questions, teacher-explanations, teacher responses, and …