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Aydan Aytekin; Mustafa Sami Topcu – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2024
In the digital age in which we live, one of the primary goals of education is to nurture individuals who are capable of thinking creatively, solving problems, and being innovative and productive. Computational thinking is an analytical process that requires defining problems and at the same time solving these problems by proceeding in creative…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Problem Solving, Skill Development, Thinking Skills
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de la Hoz, Marina Casanoves; Solé-Llussà, Anna; Haro, Juan; Gericke, Niklas; Valls, Cristina – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2022
The speed of development of biotechnology within agriculture, industry, and medicine has changed our lives, and we need a biotechnological literacy to understand it. This implies that teachers in primary schools need to be biotechnologically literate in order to educate future generations. The aim of this study was to investigate Swedish…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Knowledge Level
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Hsu, Chung-Yuan; Tsai, Meng-Jung; Hou, Huei-Tse; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2014
Online information searching tasks are usually implemented in a technology-enhanced science curriculum or merged in an inquiry-based science curriculum. The purpose of this study was to examine the role students' different levels of scientific epistemic beliefs (SEBs) play in their online information searching strategies and behaviors. Based on…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Epistemology, Online Searching, Search Strategies
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Morales, Marie Paz E. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2016
"Culture," a set of principles that trace and familiarize human beings within their existential realities, may provide an invisible lens through which reality could be discerned. Critically explored in this study is how culture- and language-sensitive curriculum materials in physics improve Pangasinan learners' attitude toward science.…
Descriptors: Science and Society, Cultural Influences, Physics, Scientific Attitudes
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Adams, Wendy K.; Alhadlaq, Hisham; Malley, Christopher V.; Perkins, Katherine K.; Olson, Jonathan; Alshaya, Fahad; Alabdulkareem, Saleh; Wieman, Carl E. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2012
The PhET Interactive Simulations Project partnered with the Excellence Research Center of Science and Mathematics Education at King Saud University with the joint goal of making simulations useable worldwide. One of the main challenges of this partnership is to make PhET simulations and the website easily translatable into any language. The PhET…
Descriptors: Expertise, Conferences (Gatherings), Mathematics Education, Computer Software
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Pilling, G. M.; Waddington, D. J. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2005
The Salters Chemistry courses, context-led curricula for 13-16 and 17-18 year old students, first developed by the Science Education Group at the University of York in the UK, have now been translated and/or adapted in seven other European countries. This paper describes and discusses the different reasons for taking up the courses, the ways in…
Descriptors: Science Curriculum, Foreign Countries, Program Implementation, Chemistry
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Kahle, Jane Butler; Rennie, Leonie J. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 1993
The outcomes of two studies reported here indicate that the teacher inservice workshops, combined with activity-based science lessons, affected students' attitudes and perceptions about electricity. Australian and U.S. studies produced different patterns and are explored and explained in the paper. (Contains 24 references.) (Author/PR)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Electricity, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science
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Lazarowitz, Reuven; Bloch, Ilit – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2005
The purpose of this study was to investigate how aware high school biology teachers are of societal issues (values, moral, ethic, and legal issues) while teaching genetics, genetics engineering, molecular genetics, human heredity, and evolution. The study includes a short historical review of World War II atrocities during the Holocaust when…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Social Problems, Biology, Science Instruction