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Facilitating Middle School Students' Reasoning about Vaccines
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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
STEM Problem Solving: Inquiry, Concepts, and Reasoning
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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
Exploring the Inclusion of Nature of Science in Turkish Middle School Science Textbooks
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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
Investigating Conflation of Sex and Gender Language in Student Writing about Genetics
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Stuhlsatz, Molly A. M.; Buck Bracey, Zoë E.; Donovan, Brian M. – Science & Education, 2020
Conflation of sex and gender is implicated in the development of essentialist thinking, which has been linked to the justification of systems of prejudice in modern society. This exploratory study presents findings from a person randomized control trial conducted with 460 students in 8th-10th grade that investigated the extent to which students…
Descriptors: Sex, Gender Issues, Gender Bias, Grade 8
Pre-Service Mathematics Teachers' Knowledge of History of Mathematics and Their Attitudes and Beliefs towards Using History of Mathematics in Mathematics Education
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Alpaslan, Mustafa; Isiksal, Mine; Haser, Çigdem – Science & Education, 2014
This study examined pre-service mathematics teachers' knowledge of history of mathematics and their attitudes and beliefs towards using history of mathematics in mathematics education based on year level in teacher education program and gender. The sample included 1,593 freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior pre-service middle school (grades 4-8)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Teacher Attitudes
Students' Conceptions of the Nature of Science: Perspectives from Canadian and Korean Middle School Students
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Park, Hyeran; Nielsen, Wendy; Woodruff, Earl – Science & Education, 2014
This study examined and compared students' understanding of nature of science (NOS) with 521 Grade 8 Canadian and Korean students using a mixed methods approach. The concepts of NOS were measured using a survey that had both quantitative and qualitative elements. Descriptive statistics and one-way multivariate analysis of variances examined the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Scientific Principles, Middle School Students