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Direct linkSummers, Ryan; Alameh, Sahar; Brunner, Jeanne; Maddux, John M.; Wallon, Robert C.; Abd-El-Khalick, Fouad – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2019
This study evaluated the representations of nature of science (NOS) in U.S. state science standards, and examined the changes in these representations from documents advanced in the 1980s through 2016. Drawing from the consensus perspective on NOS and prior studies focusing on the analysis of textual content, documents were inspected for 10 target…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Science Education, Educational History, Scientific Methodology
Abd-El-Khalick, Fouad; Waters, Mindy; Le, An-Phong – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2008
This study assessed the representations of nature of science (NOS) in high school chemistry textbooks and the extent to which these representations have changed during the past four decades. Analyses focused on the empirical, tentative, inferential, creative, theory-driven, and social NOS, in addition to the myth of "The Scientific Method," the…
Descriptors: Secondary School Science, Textbooks, Scientific Methodology, Scientific Principles
Peer reviewedAbd-El-Khalick, Fouad; Bell, Randy L.; Lederman, Norman G. – Science Education, 1998
Delineates the factors that mediate the translation of preservice teachers' conceptions of the nature of science into instructional planning and classroom practice. Few references to the nature of science are found in the data. Contains 44 references. (DDR)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Science Education, Science Teachers
Peer reviewedAkerson, Valarie L.; Abd-El-Khalick, Fouad; Lederman, Norman G. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2000
Discusses the influence of a reflective, explicit, activity-based approach to nature of science (NOS) instruction used in an elementary science methods course on preservice teachers' views of some aspects of the nature of science. Finds that participants made substantial gains in their views of some of the target NOS aspects. Advocates a…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Elementary Education, Epistemology, Knowledge Base for Teaching
