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Berrin Okka – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2024
The relationship between ethical dispositions and scientific and academic ethics is important in understanding how individuals' general ethical values influence their behavior in the academic setting. Examining this relationship by considering personality, which is one of the important individual characteristics, will be useful in developing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Students, Medical Education, Ethics
Demirel, Zeynep Merve; Sungur, Semra; Çakiroglu, Jale – Science & Education, 2023
The purpose of this study was twofold: first, to investigate science teachers' views about the nature of science (NOS); and second, to examine science teachers' views about their NOS integration into instruction. Reconceptualized family resemblance approach to nature of science (RFN) is used as a theoretical and analytical framework. The…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Scientific Principles, Teaching Methods
Sarigoz, Okan – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2022
Chaos is a scientific approach that refers to the fact that systems or behaviors that are thought to be irregular, complex, impossible to predict actually occur in an orderly manner. The aim of this research is to determine what chaos and butterfly effect mean in terms of education, the importance of chaos and butterfly effect in education and its…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Physics, Foreign Countries, Teachers
Ebru Eren – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2025
This article aims to examine the impact of neoliberal policies on universities, focusing particularly on the concepts of academic capitalism and academic autonomy, and to conduct a comprehensive discussion to understand how scientific knowledge production has been affected by this process. Since the Bologna Process, universities have adopted a…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Social Systems, Educational Policy, Scientific Principles
Ugur Orhan; Eda Demirhan – Research in Science Education, 2025
Throughout the world scientific reasoning (SR) is a valuable and desirable ability to gain deeper understanding of science in all grade level. In the current study, we first adapted the SPR-I (7) which consists of seven items with three sub-dimensions as the experimentation, the understanding the nature of science (NOS) and the data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Science Process Skills, Thinking Skills
Emre Savas; Aysel Kocakulah – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2025
This study aims to investigate the effect of the teaching model developed for hot conceptual change on middle school 7th-grade students' understanding of the Nature of Science (NOS) aspects. In this qualitative and exploratory study, activities were carried out with 24 students of two classes in a village school in the South Marmara region using a…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Grade 7
Beyza Okan; Ebru Kaya – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2025
This study examined science teachers' views on the Reconceptualized Family Resemblance Approach to Nature of Science (RFN). Semi-structured individual online interviews including questions related to all categories of the RFN were conducted with eight science teachers to explore their views on the epistemic, cognitive, and social-institutional…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Epistemology, Cognitive Processes
Sengul, Ozden – European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2023
A framework for K-12 science education (National Research Council [NRC], 2012) supports science learning on social and political issues to make informed decisions and solve problems. Socio-scientific issues have been considered as a context to teach characteristics of nature of science (NOS). This study is a qualitative study in nature to examine…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Scientific Principles, COVID-19
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
Süleyman Akçay; Gülderen Sultan Türkmen – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2023
Today, only people, who truly understand what scientific knowledge is and how it is obtained, are considered scientifically literate. This understanding expected in today's scientific areas is called the nature of science (NOS). This study aimed to determine the perceptions of high school students and their parents regarding NOS. In addition, the…
Descriptors: High School Students, Parent Attitudes, Scientific Literacy, Scientific Principles
Melahat Çelik; Mustafa Dogru – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2024
This study aimed to develop a valid and reliable scale that reveals secondary school pupils' attitudes toward science literacy. The survey model, one of the quantitative research methods, was used in the study. The validity and reliability study of the scale was carried out on secondary school pupils attending public schools in Turkey in the…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Scientific Literacy
Ayse Sert Çibik; Betül Timur; Nagihan Imer Çetin – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2023
This study aims to examine the effects of explicit-reflective nature of science (NOS) activities on science teacher candidates' views on the nature of science and self-efficacy beliefs about teaching the nature of science, using a single-group pre-test-post-test experimental method. The research sample included 120 science teacher candidates…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Self Efficacy
Atike Sari; Çigdem Sahin Çakir – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2024
This study employed a case study methodology to investigate students' misconceptions about solid, liquid, and atmospheric pressure. The research included 36 8th-grade students from various middle schools in Giresun, comprising 19 girls and 17 boys. Data collection involved a test consisting of 14 concept cartoon questions, and the concept cartoons…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cartoons, Grade 8, Middle School Students
Hakan Türkmen; Beyza Yegen – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2024
This study aimed to determine preservice science teachers' (PST) attitudes towards the Reconceptualized Family Resemblance Approach to the Nature of Science and to examine PST attitudes towards this approach according to grade levels. The study group consists of 75 people studying in the 3rd and 4th year of undergraduate education. The sample of…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Teacher Education Programs, Scientific Principles
Banu Avsar Erumit; Bahadir Namdar; Aysegül Oguz Namdar – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
This mixed-methods study explored changes in preservice teachers' (PSTs) understanding of the nature of science (NOS) and their values as global citizens after a place-based intervention augmented with role-play activities concerning climate change. The study further probed how these values manifested during role-play improvisations, where…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Global Approach, Citizenship Education, Scientific Principles