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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"scientific literacy"”.
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Rethinking scientific literacy standards
… for current science education reforms. The scientific literacy effort proposed by Project 2061 is described and criticized with regard to its educational and philosophical commitments. It is argued that a number of controversies involving science studies can aid students and educators in …
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Addressing Scientific Literacy Through Content Area Reading And Proces
… science teachers in Florida as they address the scientific literacy of their students through teaching content reading strategies and student inquiry skills. Knowledge of the successful integration of content reading and inquiry skills by experienced classroom teachers would be useful to many …
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Using Forensic Science As a Context to Enhance Scientific Literacy
… the use of inquiry-based curriculum to achieve scientific literacy. Forensic science is an authentic subject that can be used to link the science classroom to a real-world working environment. Given the nature of the subject, forensic science fosters student interest and can be used as a tool to …
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Development of a test for scientific literacy and its application in assessing the scientific literacy of matriculants entering universities and technikons in the Western Cape, South Africa
… of this study were (a) to determine the level of scientific literacy of matriculants entering tertiary education in the Western Cape for the first time; (b) to describe patterns of scientific literacy levels with respect to selected demographic and other student background variables; and (c) to …
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Science Classroom Discourse for Fourth Grade English Language Learners' Scientific Literacy Development
… by which to accomplish the advanced science literacy task of answering text-dependent questions. This study highlights that all students, and especially ELLs, need instructional support from teachers in learning to develop new ways of participating in science classroom discourse and answering …
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An examination of science fiction with a view towards improving scientific literacy
Scientific and technological literacy is important in order to have a population that can evaluate new scientific and technological developments. For this, new educational strategies need to be found that promote scientific literacy in science education. This study examined one aspect of popular …
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Relationship between family, school, peer, and student characteristics and student scientific literacy in Azerbaijan
… peer and student individual characteristics on scientific literacy scores. The study analyzed data from the Program of International Student Assessment (PISA) 2006 data collected from 171 schools and 5,184 students in Azerbaijan. Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) was utilized to analyze the …
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Case studies of instruction towards scientific literacy in three eighth-grade science classrooms in Illinois
Measures of scientific literacy point to inadequate programs of science education in American schools. Understanding current conditions in science classrooms is a necessary precursor to change. Yet, little information is available which describes what happens within them toward the goal of …
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRE-SERVICE ELEMENTARY TEACHERS’ SCIENTIFIC LITERACY AND THEIR SELF-EFFICACY IN TEACHING SCIENCE
… study examined pre-service elementary teachers’ scientific literacy levels. Second, this study examined pre-service elementary teachers’ personal and subject-specific self-efficacy levels toward teaching science. Third, this study investigated the extent to which pre-service elementary teachers’ …
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Scientific literacy: a multi-disciplinary explication and empirical study of the conceptions of science graduate students
… and conceptions of what it means to be scientifically literate (SL), resulting in an amalgam of prescriptions, aims, objectives, and learning goals all falling under the same umbrella term. What is missing is a systematic explication of this complex concept, stemming from its two …
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The Impact of a Commercially Prepared Science Program on Science Education and Scientific Literacy Among Elementary Students
A three part model for good science instruction is proposed consisting of: (a) availability of resources, (b) teacher-mediated instruction and discussion, and (c) student inquiry. WOS is heavily weighted toward science content information and is most useful either as a reference resource or as a …
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Documentation panels: Evidence of scientific literacy in a primary multi age classroom: Teaching at the edge of magic
… of nonfiction texts to teach emergent and early literacy skills, discuss why I encourage classroom discourse among my students, posit the need to establish criteria for completing best quality work, and argue for the inclusion of science in an integrated curriculum.</p><p>I analyze the visual and …
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Writing-to-Learn in High-School Chemistry: The Effects of Using the Science Writing Heuristic to Increase Scientific Literacy
… Using the Science Writing Heuristic to Increase Scientific Literacy</p> <p>The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of using the Science Writing Heuristic (SWH) as an instructional tool to improve academic achievement and writing in the context of scientific literacy. This …
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Controversial issues in science education for functional scientific literacy: A case study of an implemented curriculum in Cyprus Science classrooms
This study has been designed to provide and interpret information from classroom based practice about the implementation of controversial issues in the science curriculum and relate it to the discussion about conceptual frameworks that situate controversial issues in science education. Since no …
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The Influence of Scientific, Genetic, and Health Literacy on Carrier Screening Decision-Making
… no models have yet accounted for a patient’s literacy level in health, genetics, and science. Thus, this study aimed to establish rates of these literacies in a prenatal population and determine whether these literacies were related to carrier screening uptake or informed decision-making. …
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Undergraduates’ Preparedness for College-Level Work in STEM: The Importance of Reading and Understanding Scientific Theories, Arguments, and Data
… students’ reading comprehension of a difficult scientific article. For that purpose, we investigated students understanding of text material on Earth’s magnetism, across media. The assessment included reading a published article and assessment of comprehension, content knowledge and scientific …
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Enacting the 3rd Cycle Science Education Curriculum in Timor-Leste
… within the science curriculum was the goal of scientific literacy that provided a focus for the integration of the subject domains that were previously taught separately by specialist teachers. Adopting this curriculum was seen by Timorese educational officials and educators as a strategy to …
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Per Mutations
… interrogate the relationship between emotional literacy and scientific literacy. The author uses ballet, grizzly bears, radioactive isotopes, infamous scientists, genetic mutations, the Apollo missions, and other subjects to hold beside her own experiences so that she might better understand how …
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A case-study of a socio-scientific issues curricular and pedagogical intervention in an undergraduate microbiology course: A focus on informal reasoning
… conceptualizations and ability to evaluate scientific information. The socio-scientific issues (SSI) theoretical framework used in this case-study has been advocated as a means for improving students' functional scientific literacy. This investigation focused on the laboratory component of …
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