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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
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Pedretti, Erminia G.; Bencze, Larry; Hewitt, Jim; Romkey, Lisa; Jivraj, Ashifa – Science & Education, 2008
Although science, technology, society and environment (STSE) education has gained considerable force in the past few years, it has made fewer strides in practice. We suggest that "science" teacher identity plays a role in the adoption of STSE perspectives. Simply put, issues-based STSE education challenges traditional images of a science…
Descriptors: Ideology, Science Teachers, Foreign Countries, Science and Society