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Valeria Edelsztein; Claudio Cormick – Science & Education, 2025
In this article, we tackle the phenomenon of what seems to be a misunderstanding between science education theory and philosophy of science--one which does not seem to have received any attention in the literature. While there seems to be a consensus within the realm of science education on limiting or altogether denying the explanatory role of…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Scientific Concepts, Science Education, Epistemology
Antonio García-Carmona – Science & Education, 2025
For many years, hegemonic approaches to teaching the nature of science (NOS) have focused mainly on understanding some epistemic (i.e., rational, or cognitive) aspects involved in the construction of science. So, aspects of a non-epistemic (i.e., non-rational, contextual, or extra-scientific) nature have been practically neglected in these…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Scientific Principles, Holistic Approach
Bingxing Wang; Qi Wang; Yanwei Zhang; Yongcai Zhang; Yuanchao Li; Donglin Zhao – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
Interfacial, or surface tension, is a significant topic in chemical education. This paper describes the directional motion of gallium-based liquid metal drops, resulting from a difference of interfacial tension across the drop. This demonstration can engage students in discovering the underlying chemical principles. A mechanism for the drop's…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Education, Demonstrations (Educational), Science Instruction
Richard Brock; Wonyong Park – Science & Education, 2024
Whilst teaching about the nature of science (NOS) is a significant goal of science education, there remains debate about specifying the NOS and appropriate pedagogies and approaches to researching the NOS. A neglected, but conceptually and practically significant, problem is the proliferation of NOS-related learning goals such as NOS beliefs,…
Descriptors: Scientific Attitudes, Beliefs, Scientific Literacy, Knowledge Level
Ampatzidis, Georgios; Ergazaki, Marida – Science & Education, 2023
Nature of science (NOS) is considered an important component of scientific literacy. Supporting students to develop a comprehensive NOS understanding is one of the most commonly described objectives within science education. Moreover, history of science can arguably provide a good context for NOS teaching and learning; it has been suggested that…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, History
Amy J. Hopper; Angus M. Brown – Advances in Physiology Education, 2024
In this article we analyze the classic Hodgkin and Keynes 1955 paper describing investigations of the independence principle, with the expectation that there is much students and educators can learn from such exercises, most notably how the authors applied their diverse skill set to tackling the numerous obstacles that the study presented. The…
Descriptors: Science Education, Physiology, Scientific Principles, Scientific Concepts
Wencheng Liu; Xiaofei Li; Gaofeng Li – Science & Education, 2025
The philosophy of science (POS) has gained recognition for its contributions to science education, particularly in integrating the history and philosophy of science (HPS). However, the existing literature lacks a comprehensive review that systematically investigates the implications and limitations of POS in science education research. This study…
Descriptors: Philosophy, Science Education, Educational Research, Scientific Principles
Voss, Sarah; Kruse, Jerrid; Kent-Schneider, Isaiah – Research in Science Education, 2022
Explicit-reflective nature of science (NOS) instruction has demonstrated a positive impact on student learning. Although explicit-reflective NOS instruction often consists of questions that draw students' attention to NOS ideas, there are few recommendations in the science education literature about how the form of these questions might inform NOS…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Science Education, Science Instruction, Scientific Methodology
Anne van der Linden; Ralph F. G. Meulenbroeks; Wouter R. van Joolingen – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2024
Background: Research on cognitive effects of educational games in general shows promising results. However, there are large variations in learning outcomes between individual educational games. Research on the design process and different design elements of educational games has led to some interesting directions, but some design aspects remain…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Mechanics (Physics), Educational Games, Science Education
Daniel A. Martens Yaverbaum – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study investigated evidence of how students' mental models of fundamental kinematic relations evolved (i.e., developed cognitively over time) as observed during an introductory course in calculus-based classical mechanics. The core of the curriculum is based on a claim known as Galileo's principle of relativity. The course material comprised…
Descriptors: Schemata (Cognition), Motion, Physics, Science Education
Britney L. Jones – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2025
Science education policies and standards have called for educators to teach students about the Nature of Science (NOS) and engage them in Culturally Relevant Science Teaching (CRST), which requires critical shifts away from traditional science teaching. As such, teachers are being asked to possess or take up conceptions of science that challenge…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Scientific Principles, Science Education
Haskel-Ittah, Michal – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2023
Many studies have characterized students' difficulties in understanding and reasoning about scientific mechanisms. Some of those studies have drawn implications on teaching mechanisms and how to guide students while reasoning mechanistically. In this theoretical article, I claim that one component that has not garnered much attention in the…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Science Process Skills, Scientific Concepts, Science Instruction
Peng Dai – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Scholars over the past few years have drawn attention to the enormous potential role historical stories can play in promoting student understanding of issues associated with the nature of science (NOS). Such stories, often referred to as "historical narratives," are thought to do so by providing a rich historical context within which…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Science History, Narration, Science Education
Leslie Y. Garrido – ProQuest LLC, 2024
As the adoption rate of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) continues to rise in the United States, there is an increasing need for the development of high-quality instructional materials that reflect NGSS and effectively prepare teachers for its implementation. The NGSS aim to foster an understanding of three interconnected dimensions in…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Science Education
Park, Wonyong; Brock, Richard – Science & Education, 2023
The notion of family resemblance has recently emerged as a promising and fruitful approach to characterising the nature of science (NOS) in science education research, offering solutions to some perplexing challenges such as capturing both the domain-general and domain-specific features of science with a single framework. At the same time,…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Scientific Concepts