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Isabel María Cruz Lorite – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2025
Historical scientific controversies have great potential to address aspects of the nature of science in context. This paper describes a design case about a novel lesson plan based on the scientific controversy between Karl von Frisch and Carl von Hess on the sight of bees (how they see). This lesson plan allows concepts related to experimentation,…
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Science Education, Entomology, Scientific Concepts
Emre Savas; Aysel Kocakulah – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2025
This study aims to investigate the effect of the teaching model developed for hot conceptual change on middle school 7th-grade students' understanding of the Nature of Science (NOS) aspects. In this qualitative and exploratory study, activities were carried out with 24 students of two classes in a village school in the South Marmara region using a…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Grade 7
Rosemary Hipkins – set: Research Information for Teachers, 2024
There is often a steady trajectory of curriculum change under the surface of developments that might seem arbitrary or inconsistent. This article traces the change from key competencies to science capabilities and, most recently, to enduring competencies. All these changes (and names) respond to increasing awareness of the challenges involved in…
Descriptors: Minimum Competencies, Competency Based Education, Foreign Countries, Science Education
Schizas, Dimitrios; Psillos, Dimitris; Stamou, George – International Journal of Science Education, 2023
The present study investigates how Greek in-service secondary education biology teachers understand the unique features of school biology and physics when considering the biological theoretical edifice and method. Our theoretical framework focuses on important differences that exist between the neo-Darwinian and Newtonian worldviews, while our…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Biology, Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Atike Sari; Çigdem Sahin Çakir – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2024
This study employed a case study methodology to investigate students' misconceptions about solid, liquid, and atmospheric pressure. The research included 36 8th-grade students from various middle schools in Giresun, comprising 19 girls and 17 boys. Data collection involved a test consisting of 14 concept cartoon questions, and the concept cartoons…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cartoons, Grade 8, Middle School Students
Noly Shofiyah; Nadi Suprapto; Binar Kurnia Prahani; Budi Jatmiko; Desak Made Anggraeni; Khoirun Nisa' – Cogent Education, 2024
This research investigates the abilities of undergraduate students to apply scientific reasoning in Indonesia, with a particular focus on the concept of force and motion. Forty-three first-year undergraduate students from an Indonesian private institution, comprising 20 males and 23 females, performed the Scientific Reasoning Test of Motion (SRTM)…
Descriptors: Motion, Physics, Scientific Concepts, Thinking Skills
Manou, Leonidas; Spyrtou, Anna; Hatzikraniotis, Euripides; Kariotoglou, Petros – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2022
Nanoscience and nanotechnology (NST) focus on the creation and the exploration of materials' properties at the nanoscale. The estimations about the impact of the field on our daily life, the industrial demands for ensuring skilled workforce, and the need to form a nano-literate citizenry have triggered the incorporation of aspects of this…
Descriptors: Technology, Elementary School Teachers, Technological Literacy, Teacher Attitudes
Campos, Esmeralda; Hernandez, Eder; Barniol, Pablo; Zavala, Genaro – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
There are studies of students' understanding of the concept of the electric field, the magnetic field, and the use of the superposition principle that have contributed to the creation of both educational strategies and assessment tools. However, the difficulties of these two concepts have not been compared comprehensively. Therefore, this study…
Descriptors: Electronics, Magnets, Scientific Principles, Scientific Concepts
Schofield, Lindsay; Takriti, Rachel; Rabbani, Lutfieh; AlAmirah, Iman; Ioannidou, Olga; Alhosani, Najwa; Elhoweris, Hala; Erduran, Sibel – International Journal of Science Education, 2023
Research indicates that teachers lack a sophisticated understanding of Nature of Science (NOS), which in turn, can impact their instructional decisions and students' understanding of NOS. The aim of the study was to investigate United Arab Emirates (UAE) early years' science teacher's (N = 433) perceptions about the NOS. Results obtained from a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Scientific Principles, Foreign Countries
Jatsho, Sherab; Dorji, Karma – Anatolian Journal of Education, 2022
Science education and scientific literacy has gained enormous attention in the global educational scenario. In many cases, however, the holistic intent of science education is largely affected due to the lack of adequate understanding of the Nature of Science (NOS). This cross-sectional study was carried out to establish Bhutanese pre-service…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Scientific Principles
Tomkelski, Mauri Luís; Baptista, Mónica; Richit, Adriana – European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2023
The article analyses teachers' learning on the use of multiple representations (MRs) in the teaching of Ohm's law, examining them in a lesson study, structured in 18 meetings of 2.5 hours each, that addressed this physics curricular topic for the 3rd grade of high school. The qualitative research involved four teachers who teach physics in…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Teachers, Physics, High School Teachers
Schizas, Dimitrios; Papatheodorou, Efimia; Vezagkou, Traiani; Stamou, George – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
Science and environmental educators implicitly presuppose that the ecosystem per se is clearly defined and consider learners' misunderstandings to be incorrect scientific interpretations of uncontested knowledge content. The present study, however, explores how in-service secondary education Greek biology teachers address the topic of 'ecosystem…
Descriptors: Ecology, Biology, Science Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
Zhuang, Haoli; Xiao, Yang; Liu, Qiaoyi; Yu, Bing; Xiong, Jianwen; Bao, Lei – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
Formal understanding of the nature of science (NOS) has been considered to be a major contributor to nurturing students' scientific literacy. In China, this view has been endorsed in the new standard for high school physics curriculum, which has guided the development of the new generation physics textbooks. Following the analytical framework…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scientific Principles, Physics, Science Instruction
Bøe, Maria Vetleseter; Viefers, Susanne – Science & Education, 2023
Teaching and learning of quantum physics at secondary level is an active field of research. One important challenge is finding ways to promote understanding of quantum concepts without the mathematical formalism that is embedded in quantum mechanics but unavailable on the secondary level. We investigated Norwegian secondary students' (N = 291)…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Scientific Principles, Physics, Science Instruction
Okan, Beyza; Kaya, Ebru – Science & Education, 2023
Reconceptualized Family Resemblance Approach to Nature of Science (RFN) explains science as a cognitive, epistemic, and social institutional system. The aim of this study is to examine the inclusion of Nature of Science (NOS) in the 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade Turkish middle school science textbooks. The "content," "activity,"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scientific Principles, Middle Schools, Secondary School Science