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Direct linkKason Ka Ching Cheung; Alis Oancea; Sibel Erduran – Science Education, 2025
Students' understanding of nature of science (NOS) has been largely examined primarily in written or verbal modes. The visual, verbal, and written modes are essential for students' meaning-making of NOS. However, research has sidelined the interaction among these three modes in understanding students' collaborative discourse of NOS. Informed by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Modalities, Scientific Principles, Grade 7
Download full textEmre 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
Tiphaine Colliot; Omar Krichen; Nathalie Girard; Éric Anquetil; Éric Jamet – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2024
This study investigated the added value of real-time adaptive feedback on seventh graders' performances in tablet-based geometry learning. To isolate the effects of the medium (ie, tablet) from those of the feedback, three groups were compared: paper-and-pencil, pen-based tablet without feedback and pen-based tablet with feedback. The feedback was…
Descriptors: Junior High School Students, Scientific Principles, Grade 7, Tablet Computers
Munezero, Vianney; Yadav, Lakhan; Bugingo, Jean Bosco – European Journal of Educational Research, 2022
Guided by the analytical framework in the current literature, whereby ten nature of science (NOS) aspects were targeted, this study aims at assessing the extent to which the three physics textbooks for Cycle 4 of Fundamental Schools in Burundi represent the NOS aspects. The quantitative embedded research design which combines the qualitative and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Physics, Scientific Principles
Aydogan, Berna; Çakiroglu, Jale – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2022
The purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of engineering design-based instruction (EDBI) on 7th grade students' nature of engineering (NOE) views. Quantitative research to evaluate students' NOE views was operated through a questionnaire which is "Views for Nature of Engineering -Elementary School Version (VNOE-E)" as pre-…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Evidence Based Practice, Scientific Principles
Patan, Aysenur; Kucuk, Mehmet – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2022
This study aimed to investigate the influence of teaching materials that can enrich the views of middle school students about the role of imagination and creativity in scientific research. The study was conducted in a village middle school in Rize Turkey. It used a case study method within the scope of the qualitative research approach, seven…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Creativity
Kaya, Merve; Yildirim, Fatih Serdar – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2022
The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of the flipped learning model (Staker & Horn, 2012), which is one of the types of rotation model in the sub-level of blended learning models, on students' understanding of the nature of science and their achievements. In the study, the mixed research method, which allows the quantitative and…
Descriptors: Flipped Classroom, Scientific Principles, Science Instruction, Grade 7
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
Sinnett, Didem Ünlü, Jr.; Akçay, Hakan – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2021
The aim of this study is to examine how the nature of science dimensions are represented in the secondary school 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade science textbooks of the last twenty years. It is also within the scope of the research to investigate how these dimensions in the textbooks changed during the twenty years. The document analysis method was…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Principles, Secondary School Science, Grade 5
Caymaz, Belkiz; Aydin, Abdullah – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2021
The aim of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of the common knowledge construction model (CKCM)-based instruction on academic achievement and 7th grade students' views about the nature of science (NOS) presented in electrical energy unit at schools of different socio-economic levels. In accordance with this purpose, three secondary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Grade 7, Science Achievement
Milanovic, Vesna D.; Trivic, Dragica D. – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2022
The aim of this paper was to investigate chemistry teachers' attitudes towards certain characteristics of the nature of science and history and philosophy of science, and the influence of those views on their teaching practice. The sample comprised 272 chemistry teachers. A questionnaire was used for data collection. Most teachers recognised some…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Science Teachers, Chemistry, Teacher Attitudes
Hidayat, Toni; Rustaman, Nuryani; Siahaan, Parsaoran – Journal of Science Learning, 2021
Science textbooks only present scientific facts that cause the textbooks to seem not to promote scientific reasoning. Science learning also becomes not in line with the nature of Science. Then, Science learning requires applying authentic Science as an approach. Adapted Primary Literature (APL) is assumed to be able to achieve this objective.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Science Instruction, Authentic Learning, Scientific Principles
Mesci, Günkut; Erdas-Kartal, Eda – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2021
The aim of the study is to improve students' nature of science understandings while integrating nature of science aspects into appropriate science-technology-engineering-mathematics (STEM) activities. In this study, four STEM-based contextualized nature of science activities are developed during the 4 weeks study. The sample of this study consists…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Scientific Principles, Scientific Literacy, Scientific Concepts
Lederman, J. S.; Lederman, N. G.; Bartels, S.; Jimenez, J.; Acosta, K.; Akubo, M.; Aly, S.; de Andrade, M. A. B. S.; Atanasova, M.; Blanquet, E.; Blonder, R.; Brown, P.; Cardoso, R.; Castillo-Urueta, P.; Chaipidech, P.; Concannon, J.; Dogan, O. K.; El-Deghaidy, H.; Elzorkani, A.; Ferdous, T.; Fukuda, N.; Gaigher, E.; Galvis-Solano, L.; Gao, Q.; Guo, S.; Gwekwerere, Y.; Gyllenpalm, J.; Hamed Al-Lal, S.; Han-Tosunoglu, C.; Hattingh, A.; Holliday, G.; Huang, X.; Irez, S.; Jiménez, J.; Kay, G.; Koumara, A.; Kremer, K.; Kuo, P.-C.; Lavonen, J.; Leung, J. S. C.; Liao, Z.; Librea-Carden, M. R.; Lin, S. -F.; Liu, C.; Liu, E.; Liu, S. -Y.; Mamlok-Naaman, R.; Mcdonald, C. V.; Möller, A.; Morales, M.; Mulvey, B. K.; Neumann, I.; Neurohr, A.-L.; Pan, Y.; Panjaburee, P.; Penn, M.; Plakitsi, K.; Picholle, E.; Ramnarain, U.; Raykova, Z.; Rundgren, C.-J.; Salonen, S.; Santibáñez-Gómez, D.; Schwartz, R.; Sharma, R.; Srisawasdi, N.; Takiveikata, S.; Urueta-Ortiz, T.; Vitlarov, K.; Voitle, F.; Wishart, J. – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
Understandings of the nature of scientific inquiry (NOSI), as opposed to engaging students in inquiry learning experiences, are included in science education reform documents around the world. However, little is known about what students have learned about NOSI during their pre-college school years. The purpose of this large-scale follow-up…
Descriptors: High School Students, Scientific Principles, Science Instruction, Grade 12
Afacan, Özlem; Çanli, Demet Sener – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2019
Previous study on the nature of science indicated that the use of activities is essential and important in the teaching of the nature of science subjects. The aim of the research is to develop alternative activities for helping students in the seventh grade of middle school develop their views on the nature of science and for better teaching the…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Grade 7, Middle School Students, Science Activities
