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Direct linkOsborne, Jonathan; Pimentel, Daniel – Science Education, 2023
In this paper, we argue that the current science curricula are failing to educate students to be competent outsiders to science. Historically, science education has rested on two premises. The first is that it is possible for students to acquire sufficient scientific knowledge from K-12 education to become intellectually independent. That is that…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Science Education, Deception, Science Curriculum
Peer reviewedLawson, Anton E.; And Others – Science Education, 1975
Three Piagetian tests of formal reasoning were administered to 65 high school biology students after half of this group had been exposed to a training session involving the control of variables. Among the results of this study was that the concrete operational students benefited more from the training session than did the formal operational…
Descriptors: Biology, Critical Thinking, Educational Research, Intellectual Development
Peer reviewedLawson, Anton E. – Science Education, 1975
Two Piagetian tests which require manipulation, two conservation tasks, and the Longeot pencil and paper formal reasoning test were administered to 62 high school biology students. For all measures the males' mean level was higher than that of the females. (MLH)
Descriptors: Conservation (Concept), Critical Thinking, Educational Research, Intellectual Development
