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Summers, Ryan; Alameh, Sahar; Brunner, Jeanne; Maddux, John M.; Wallon, Robert C.; Abd-El-Khalick, Fouad – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2019
This study evaluated the representations of nature of science (NOS) in U.S. state science standards, and examined the changes in these representations from documents advanced in the 1980s through 2016. Drawing from the consensus perspective on NOS and prior studies focusing on the analysis of textual content, documents were inspected for 10 target…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Science Education, Educational History, Scientific Methodology
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Loving, Cathleen C. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1991
A model to illuminate and relate various twentieth-century philosophical perspectives on key questions about the nature of scientific theories and, therefore, aspects of the structure and development of postmodern science is described. The Scientific Theory Profile model then forms the basis for a course for science teachers in perspectives on the…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development, Higher Education