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Kang, Nam-Hwa; DeChenne, Sue Ellen; Smith, Grant – School Science and Mathematics, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine the degree to which high school students improved their inquiry capabilities in relation to scientific literacy through their experience of a problem-based environmental health science curriculum. The two inquiry capabilities studied were scientific questioning and approaches to inquiry into their own…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Scientific Literacy, High School Students, Science Curriculum
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Barrett, Sarah Elizabeth; Pedretti, Erminia – School Science and Mathematics, 2006
Over the last 20 years, science-technology-society-environment education (STSE) education has been advocated as a way to advance scientific literacy. However, STSE education represents a broad range of ideologies and orientations. The purpose of this study was to compare and contrast two different science curricula through a case study approach.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Change, Ideology, Case Method (Teaching Technique)