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Demet Sahin Kalyon; Yasemin Özdem Yilmaz – Science & Education, 2025
Argumentation is an indispensable part of scientific knowledge construction, and the inquiry laboratory is full of opportunities for argumentation. Yet, at primary schools, students learn science without any inducement to argumentation or inquiry. To fill this need, this study was aimed to develop pre-service primary teachers' understanding of and…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Knowledge Level
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Rola Khishfe – Science & Education, 2025
The study examined preservice teachers' development in conceptions of NOS and their argumentation components using an explicit approach that targets NOS and argumentation. Participants were 20 preservice elementary teachers enrolled in a science methods course emphasizing explicit instruction of NOS and argumentation through various hands-on…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Scientific Attitudes, Knowledge Level, Scientific Principles
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John M. Francisco – Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2025
Studies show that supporting argumentation in mathematics classrooms is challenging for teachers. This study reports on the experience of seven elementary and middle-school mathematics teachers in an afterschool classroom-based program where they had the opportunity to facilitate research sessions on students' development of mathematical ideas and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Persuasive Discourse, Elementary School Teachers, Middle School Teachers
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Cansu Karaman Türk; Aylin Çam – Science & Education, 2025
Socioscientific issues (SSI), important for developing scientific literacy, are controversial issues related to social and scientific information. This study investigated the effect of argumentation about SSI on middle school students' views, attitudes, knowledge about SSI, and their scientific literacy. The study uses a pre-test and post-test…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Middle School Students, Scientific Literacy, Student Attitudes
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Randall E. Groth; James P. Barry – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2025
Numerous variants of Kahneman and Tversky's (1972) hospital problem have been used to investigate intuitions about the Empirical Law of Large Numbers (eLLN). A largely separate line of research has focused on interactions between context knowledge and statistical reasoning. The present study merges these two lines of research by analyzing tertiary…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Statistical Analysis, Thinking Skills, Hospitals
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Hidayati Maghfiroh; Siti Zubaidah; Susriyati Mahanal; Hendra Susanto – Journal of Biological Education, 2025
Given its impact on medicine, agriculture, and society, genetics literacy has attracted international interest. Biology lecturers play a crucial role in supporting students' genetics literacy empowerment. However, research into biology lecturers' perceptions of genetics literacy still needs to be undertaken. This study aimed to explore the…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Biology, Genetics