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Liu, Shiang-Yao; Lederman, Norman G. – 2003
This study examined views of the human relationship with the natural world and understandings about the nature of science (NOS) held by preservice elementary teachers in the context of Taiwan. The participants included 54 third-year students enrolled in the departments of science education and mathematics education at a teacher college. Data were…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Education, Multicultural Education
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Huang, Chao-Ming; Tsai, Chin-Chung; Chang, Chun-Yen – Adolescence (San Diego): an international quarterly devoted to the physiological, psychological, psychiatric, sociological, and educational aspects of the second decade of human life, 2005
This study developed a Pupils' Nature of Science Scale, including the subscales of the invented and changing nature of science, the role of social negotiation on science, and cultural context on science, to assess early adolescents' views about the nature of science. More than 6,000 fifth and sixth graders in Taiwan responded to the Scale. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Measures (Individuals), Grade 6, Cultural Context
Lin, Wan-Ju – 1998
This study reports on the improvement of a teacher researcher's teaching practice by adopting a constructivist teaching approach. Four biology units on the nervous system, human circulatory system, evolution, and vertebrate classification were selected to illustrate a model of biology teaching. Data were drawn from student responses to…
Descriptors: Action Research, Biology, Concept Formation, Constructivism (Learning)