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High School Students' Views about the Nature of Science: Results from Three Countries.
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Griffiths, Alan K.; Barman, Charles R. – School Science and Mathematics, 1995
Interviews of (n=96) high school students from Canada, the United States, and Australia on their views of scientific facts, theories, and laws revealed two relatively vague views of the nature of science, with American students holding to a mechanistic, traditional scientific method. (15 references) (Author/MKR)
Descriptors: Beliefs, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, High School Students
High School Students' Views about the Nature of Science.
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Griffiths, Alan K.; Barry, Maurice – School Science and Mathematics, 1993
Randomly selected high school seniors (n=32) were interviewed to assess their understanding of the nature of science. Views held by 10% or more of the students are reported in the categories of general views, scientific facts, scientific theories, and scientific laws. Reports how students differentiate between scientific facts, laws, and theories.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, High Schools, Interviews
The No Change in Junior Secondary Students' Attitudes toward Science in a Period of Curriculum Change: A Probe into the Case of British Columbia.
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Ebenezer, Jazlin V.; Zoller, Uri – School Science and Mathematics, 1993
Compared the science attitudes of tenth-grade students from British Columbia, Canada, in 1986 with those from tenth-grade students in 1989 after a three-year science-technology-society instructional period. No positive change in students' attitudes toward science was registered. (13 references) (MDH)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Career Awareness, Computer Uses in Education, Conservation (Environment)