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Voss, Sarah; Kruse, Jerrid; Kent-Schneider, Isaiah – Research in Science Education, 2022
Explicit-reflective nature of science (NOS) instruction has demonstrated a positive impact on student learning. Although explicit-reflective NOS instruction often consists of questions that draw students' attention to NOS ideas, there are few recommendations in the science education literature about how the form of these questions might inform NOS…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Science Education, Science Instruction, Scientific Methodology
Kruse, Jerrid; Kent-Schneider, Isaiah; Voss, Sarah; Zacharski, Kinsey; Rockefeller, Molly – Research in Science Education, 2022
While the importance of explicit and reflective NOS instruction is clear in the literature, questions remain about how to enact such instruction. That is, literature is sometimes unclear in defining how to enact explicit and reflective NOS instruction. While some authors recommend using questions (e.g., Clough 2007) to enact effective NOS…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Science Instruction, Grade 6, Student Reaction
Leung, Jessica Shuk Ching – Research in Science Education, 2022
The nature of science (NOS) has been recognised as an essential component for engagement with socioscientific issues (SSI). However, the findings on the link between the two have been inconclusive. This calls for a shift from students merely knowing about NOS, to using their understanding of it as a tool for decision-making and participation in…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Science and Society, Science Instruction, Intervention
Archila, Pablo Antonio; Molina, Jorge; de Mejía, Anne-Marie Truscott – Research in Science Education, 2020
Contrary to the situation at primary, middle, and secondary school levels, university science courses provide students with very few opportunities to reflect upon the nature of science (NOS). The first goal of this study was to provide evidence that the co-construction of evolutionary trees, an important component of university biology education,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Science, Science Instruction, Scientific Principles
Librea-Carden, Mila Rosa; Mulvey, Bridget K. – Research in Science Education, 2023
Limited research examines the critical intersection between science and special education (SPED), particularly on the nature of science (NOS) in science methods courses. This study addresses this gap by investigating 10 preservice SPED teachers' NOS understanding, NOS implications for SPED, and the integration of NOS into their lesson plans in a…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Intention
Bächtold, Manuel; Cross, David; Munier, Valérie – Research in Science Education, 2021
This paper addresses two methodological issues related to the assessment of teachers' views of science. The first concerns the distinction between the "nature of science" (NOS) and the nature of "scientific inquiry" (SI): should the points related to NOS and those related to SI be analyzed independently? The second concerns the…
Descriptors: Classification, Scientific Attitudes, Scientific Principles, Epistemology
Murphy, Clíona; Smith, Greg; Broderick, Nicola – Research in Science Education, 2021
This paper explores the effect teachers' participation in a targeted inquiry-based/nature of science (NoS) continuing professional development programme had on Irish primary children's experiences of scientific inquiry and developing conceptions of NoS. Data were gathered from 459 children from 10 Dublin schools. The findings revealed that their…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Scientific Principles, Faculty Development, Program Effectiveness
Nouri, Noushin; McComas, William F. – Research in Science Education, 2021
Science educators generally accept that the nature of science (NOS) should have a prominent place in school science curricula. This study highlights the special opportunity offered by the history of science (HOS) as a context for teaching NOS, by revealing HOS instructors' perspectives. We collected data from 15 instructors at 11 institutions who…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction
Das, Pabi Maya; Faikhamta, Chatree; Punsuvon, Vittaya – Research in Science Education, 2019
This study is aimed at exploring ninth-grade Bhutanese students' views of nature of science (NOS). A total of 389 students from middle secondary and higher secondary schools from the eastern, western, southern and central regions of Bhutan took part in this study. To generate a representative population, a stratified random sampling technique was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Scientific Principles, Grade 9
Li, Xiying; Tan, Zuyu; Shen, Jiliang; Hu, Weiping; Chen, Yinghe; Wang, Jingying – Research in Science Education, 2020
Based on the "analytical framework of nature of science" (NOS) in junior school science textbooks, a content analysis method was adopted to analyze the NOS in junior middle school physical textbooks (grade 8) of five editions authorized by the Ministry of Education of China, and the features of NOS were analyzed and compared. It was…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Grade 8, Textbooks, Scientific Principles
Leden, Lotta; Hansson, Lena – Research in Science Education, 2019
The inclusion of "nature of science" (NOS) in science education has for a long time been regarded as crucial. There is, however, a lack of research on appropriate NOS aspects for different educational levels. An even more neglected area of research is that focusing on teachers' perspectives on NOS teaching at different levels. The aim of…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Science Instruction, Science Education, Elementary School Science
Michie, Michael; Hogue, Michelle; Rioux, Joël – Research in Science Education, 2018
The issue of Indigenous engagement, participation and success in the sciences is a concern both in Australia and in Canada. The authors of this paper have taught Indigenous students in tertiary enabling programs, undergraduate science and science education. Their experiences bridging Indigenous and Western cultures in science and science education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Indigenous Populations, Teaching Methods
Reinisch, Bianca; Krüger, Dirk – Research in Science Education, 2018
In research on the nature of science, there is a need to investigate the role and status of different scientific knowledge forms. Theories and models are two of the most important knowledge forms within biology and are the focus of this study. During interviews, preservice biology teachers (N = 10) were asked about their understanding of theories…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Biology, Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers
Carol-Ann Burke, Lydia E.; Wessels, Anne; McAvella, Alison – Research in Science Education, 2018
Students learn about science in a range of life contexts. Unfortunately, science classrooms are often disconnected from the ways of knowing about science that are embedded in, and embodied by, the life experiences of students. Drama has been identified as a potential means by which deeper understandings of the nature of science can be derived and…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Theater Arts, Drama, Science Instruction
Forbes, Anne; Skamp, Keith – Research in Science Education, 2019
"MyScience" is a primary science education initiative in which being in a community of practice (CoP) is integral to the learning process. Stakeholder groups--primary teachers, primary students and scientist mentors--interact around the CoP "domain" of investigating scientifically and learn from each other "through…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Science, Student Attitudes