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Jennifer C. Parrish; Jacob Pleasants; Joshua W. Reid; Bridget K. Mulvey; Erin E. Peters-Burton; Abigail Recker – Science & Education, 2024
Due to the substantial emphasis on engineering in K-12 science education efforts in the USA, it is important for teachers to develop a deeper understanding of the nature of engineering (NOE) and the relationship between engineering and science. A deep understanding is characterized not only by the presence or absence of ideas but also by the…
Descriptors: Network Analysis, Science Instruction, Teacher Attitudes, Preservice Teachers
Phil Seok Oh – Science & Education, 2024
Inspired by a theoretical view of knowledge as a resource, this study explored in detail how a student used knowledge as a resource when she engaged in problem-solving about rocks and what she learned as a result of the practice of solving scientific problems. The context of the study was an inquiry project conducted in an earth science course for…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Science Process Skills, Problem Solving, Geology
Bianor Valente; Paulo Maurício; Cláudia Faria – Science & Education, 2024
Understanding how and why science works is a major goal of science education. The aim of this article is to analyze the influence of a research experience in real science contexts, in the thinking and practice of preservice elementary teachers regarding inquiry and nature of science teaching. An in-depth case study which highlights the affordances…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary Education, Cognitive Processes, Science Activities
Cetinkaya, Ertan; Saribas, Deniz – Science & Education, 2023
In a pandemic era, it is necessary to equip individuals with the ability to make informed decisions about health issues, especially in relation to viruses and vaccines. In order to achieve this goal, science educators need to explore students' decisions and reasoning about vaccination. The aim of the study reported in the paper, therefore, is to…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Immunization Programs, Decision Making, Diseases
Seker, Fatih; Aydinli, Bahattin – Science & Education, 2023
Sustainable development (SD) and science education have become interwoven categorical issues under the name of science education for sustainable development (SESD). Education can play a crucial role in merging the dimensions of SD as ecology, economy, and energy, along with society in a united holistic goal. Furthermore, it can provide the…
Descriptors: Science Education, Sustainable Development, Decision Making, Biodiversity
Karaman, Ayhan – Science & Education, 2023
The demarcation problem as one of the most prominent topics in the philosophy of science deserves a higher profile in science education literature as a part of the discussions about the instruction of the nature of science (NOS) concepts to generate a scientifically literate society. In this qualitative survey research study, the views of the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Scientific Attitudes
Tan, Aik-Ling; Ong, Yann Shiou; Ng, Yong Sim; Tan, Jared Hong Jie – Science & Education, 2023
Balancing disciplinary knowledge and practical reasoning in problem solving is needed for meaningful learning. In STEM problem solving, science subject matter with associated practices often appears distant to learners due to its abstract nature. Consequently, learners experience difficulties making meaningful connections between science and their…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Problem Solving, Middle School Students, Grade 8
Manz, Eve; Beckert, Betsy – Science & Education, 2023
Changing where, when, and how objects are studied is central to lab-based science (Knorr Cetina, 1999). Science involves changing the scale of objects--particularly scales of size, time, and intensity--from what is experienced in the world. Similar to investigations conducted in science laboratories, classroom investigations involve…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Elementary School Students, Heat, Scientific Concepts
Okan, Beyza; Kaya, Ebru – Science & Education, 2023
Reconceptualized Family Resemblance Approach to Nature of Science (RFN) explains science as a cognitive, epistemic, and social institutional system. The aim of this study is to examine the inclusion of Nature of Science (NOS) in the 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade Turkish middle school science textbooks. The "content," "activity,"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scientific Principles, Middle Schools, Secondary School Science
Çilekrenkli, Aysegül; Kaya, Ebru – Science & Education, 2023
Erduran and Dagher's (2014) account of the Family Resemblance Approach (FRA) to Nature of Science (NOS) is a relatively new framework that frames NOS in a holistic fashion, inclusive of cognitive-epistemic and social-institutional aspects. This approach has also been referred to as the "Reconceptualized Family Resemblance Approach to Nature…
Descriptors: Science Education, Holistic Approach, Scientific Principles, Educational Philosophy
Edgerly, Hallie; Kruse, Jerrid; Wilcox, Jesse – Science & Education, 2023
During a 10-week professional physical science professional development (PD) course, elementary inservice teachers (n = 18) in a large urban district were engaged in explicit-reflective nature of science (NOS) instruction. Teachers were also explicitly engaged in reflection concerning NOS pedagogy (e.g., explicit-reflective, role of context).…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Elementary School Teachers, Urban Schools, Scientific Principles
Skoumios, Michael – Science & Education, 2023
The engagement of students in processes for evaluating scientific arguments is particularly important for science education of all students. Research studying students' abilities to evaluate scientific arguments based on their evidence is limited. The present paper investigates the impact of a teaching sequence for temperature and heat, which is…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Evidence, Science Education, Heat
Herman, Benjamin C.; Poor, Sarah V.; Oertli, Robert T.; Schulte, Kristen – Science & Education, 2023
Promoting a functional scientific literacy entails preparing people to effectively engage and make decisions regarding real-world socioscientfic issues (SSI) through consideration of the relevant products and processes of science, as well as social, cultural, environmental, and ethical factors. Students can develop a functional scientific literacy…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Science, Grade 4, Science and Society
Ha, Heesoo; Park, Wonyong; Song, Jinwoong – Science & Education, 2023
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the role of informed decision-making in times of crisis and the need for equipping teachers with the ability to address socioscientific issues in the classroom. In this study, we examine the features of socioscientific reasoning found in preservice elementary teachers' group discussions on the issue of…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Decision Making, Preservice Teachers
Avsar Erumit, Banu; Akerson, Valarie L. – Science & Education, 2022
In this study, we report the results of the content analysis of preservice middle school science teachers' own written science storybooks and middle school female students' reflections of five of the books. The participants of this study were 50 preservice middle school science teachers taking a history and nature of science course and 13…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Science Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education