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Eastwood, Jennifer L.; Sadler, Troy D.; Sherwood, Robert D.; Schlegel, Whitney M. – Research in Science Education, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine whether Socioscientific Issues (SSI) based learning environments affect university students' epistemological understanding of scientific inquiry differently from traditional science educational contexts. We identify and compare conceptions of scientific inquiry of students participating in an…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Interdisciplinary Approach, Science and Society, Undergraduate Students
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Lombardi, Doug; Sinatra, Gale M. – Research in Science Education, 2012
Overcoming students' misconceptions may be a challenge when teaching about phenomena such as climate change. Students tend to cite short-term weather effects as evidence to support or refute long-term climate transformations, which displays a fundamental misunderstanding about weather and climate distinctions. Confusion about weather and climate…
Descriptors: Evidence, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Physical Geography