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Science-Technology-Society-Environment Issues in German and Portuguese Biology Textbooks: Influenced of the Socio-Cultural Context?
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Calado, Florbela M.; Scharfenberg, Franz-Josef; Bogner, Franz X. – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2018
Our paper analyses the genetics and gene technology contents of German (Bavarian) and Portuguese biology textbooks, as fields common in science-technology-society-environment (STSE) issues. Our aim was to determine the extent to which textbooks from both countries contribute to students' understanding of the STSE issues and therefore to students'…
Descriptors: Science and Society, Textbook Content, Content Analysis, Foreign Countries
To What Extent Do Biology Textbooks Contribute to Scientific Literacy? Criteria for Analysing Science-Technology-Society-Environment Issues
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Calado, Florbela M.; Scharfenberg, Franz-Josef; Bogner, Franz X. – Education Sciences, 2015
Our article proposes a set of six criteria for analysing science-technology-society-environment (STSE) issues in regular textbooks as to how they are expected to contribute to students' scientific literacy. We chose genetics and gene technology as fields prolific in STSE issues. We derived our criteria (including 26 sub-criteria) from a literature…
Descriptors: Scientific Literacy, Biology, Textbook Content, Science and Society
Instructional Efficiency of Tutoring in an Outreach Gene Technology Laboratory
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Scharfenberg, Franz-Josef; Bogner, Franz X. – Research in Science Education, 2013
Our research objective focused on examining the instructional efficiency of tutoring as a form of instructional change as opposed to a non-tutoring approach in an outreach laboratory. We designed our laboratory based on cognitive load (CL) theory. Altogether, 269 twelfth-graders participated in our day-long module "Genetic Fingerprinting." In a…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Instructional Effectiveness, Genetics, Laboratories