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The Impact of Science Apprenticeships on Student Conceptions of the Nature of Science and Scientific Inquiry.
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Crawford, Barbara A.; Bell, Randy L.; Blair, Lesley M.; Lederman, Norman G. – 1999
This paper represents the results of research that involved volunteer high school students. Apprenticeship is a program in science and engineering that places students in science laboratories to provide them opportunities to improve their perspective on scientific principles and scientific inquiry. The study examined the effects of an eight-week…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Engineering Education, High Schools, Inquiry
Just Do It? Impact of a Science Apprenticeship Program on High School Students' Understandings of the Nature of Science and Scientific Inquiry.
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Bell, Randy L.; Blair, Lesley M.; Crawford, Barbara A.; Lederman, Norman G. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2003
Explicates the impact of an 8-week science apprenticeship program on a group of high-ability secondary students' understanding of the nature of science and scientific inquiry. Reports that although most students did appear to gain knowledge about the process of scientific inquiry, their conceptions about key aspects of the nature of science…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Concept Formation, Engineering Education, Epistemology