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Akerson, Valarie L.; Hanuscin, Deborah L. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2007
This study assessed the influence of a 3-year professional development program on elementary teachers' views of nature of science (NOS), instructional practice to promote students' appropriate NOS views, and the influence of participants' instruction on elementary student NOS views. Using the VNOS-B and associated interviews the researchers…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Scientific Principles, Faculty Development, Professional Development
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Kanari, Zoe; Millar, Robin – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2004
This study explored the understandings of data and measurement that school students draw upon, and the ways that they reason from data, when carrying out a practical science inquiry task. The two practical tasks used in the study each involved investigations of the relationships between two independent variables (IVs) and a dependent variable…
Descriptors: Science Education, Investigations, Error of Measurement, Mathematics Achievement