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Yang, Fang-Ying – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2017
The main goal of this study was to investigate how readers' visual attention distribution during reading of conflicting science information is related to their scientific reasoning behavior. A total of 25 university students voluntarily participated in the study. They were given conflicting science information about earthquake predictions to read…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Scientific and Technical Information, Thinking Skills, Seismology
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Kloser, Matthew – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2013
Texts play an integral role in science research and science classrooms yet biology textbooks have traditionally failed to reflect the epistemic elements of the discipline such as justification of claims and visual representations of empirical data. This study investigates high school biology students' reading experiences when engaging more…
Descriptors: Secondary School Science, High School Students, Textbooks, Protocol Analysis
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Stains, Marilyne; Talanquer, Vicente – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2008
In this study we explore the strategies that undergraduate and graduate chemistry students use when engaged in classification tasks involving symbolic and microscopic (particulate) representations of different chemical reactions. We were specifically interested in characterizing the basic features to which students pay attention when classifying…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Chemistry, Classification