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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
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
Allison Witucki; Wendy Beane; Brandy Pleasants; Peng Dai; David Wÿss Rudge – Science & Education, 2024
Involving undergraduate STEM majors in authentic research has been cited as being an imperative goal in advancing the field of science and preparing students for careers and post-graduate educational programs. An important component of authentic research that is often overlooked is student understanding of the Nature of Science (NOS) and how this…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Student Research, Undergraduate Students, Scientific Principles
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
de Andrade, Vanessa; Freire, Sofia; Baptista, Mónica – Research in Science Education, 2019
This article describes a system of analysis aimed at characterizing students' scientific explanations. Science education literature and reform documents have been highlighting the importance of scientific explanations for students' conceptual understanding and for their understanding of the nature of scientific knowledge. Nevertheless, and despite…
Descriptors: Science Education, Scientific Concepts, Knowledge Level, Student Attitudes
Martin Bílek; Karel Kolár; Monika Pelikánová – International Baltic Symposium on Science and Technology Education, 2025
This study explores the integration of STEM principles into chemistry education through the redesign of the topic Chemical Reactions for initial teacher training. The aim was to develop and evaluate an innovative teaching module that fosters key competences--knowledge, skills, and attitudes--via student-centred, context-based, and…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Chemistry, Scientific Principles, Knowledge Level
Akgun, Selin; Kaya, Ebru – Science & Education, 2020
The paper presents an empirical study on university students' perceptions of nature of science (NOS). NOS is framed in terms of the cognitive, epistemic, and social-institutional systems of science based on the Family Resemblance Approach (FRA) (Erduran and Dagher 2014; Irzik and Nola 2014; Irzik and Nola, SCED 20:591-607, 2011). FRA includes the…
Descriptors: College Students, Scientific Principles, Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes
Jason Ward – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The subject of chemistry is a cornerstone of high school science programs and a conceptual understanding of chemical equilibria and Le Chatelier's Principle continues to be both a fundamental and paradoxically difficult subject for educators and students. This study evaluated the effectiveness of a prototype immersive virtual reality environment.…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Intervention, Chemistry, Science Education
Duruk, Umit; Kocabük, Ayse; Cavus, Emine – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2022
The efforts shown in recent years related to the reform movements in science education have focused on the assertion that informed nature of science understandings (NOS, hereafter) should be developed. In line with this idea, NOS has become the central component of numerous science curricula. In the study, therefore, it was aimed to determine…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Science Education, Student Attitudes, Phenomenology
Adisu Daniel; Desta Gebeyhu; Shimeles Assefa; Tsedeke Abate – Cogent Education, 2023
Although laboratory work is considered a significant factor in helping students develop their science process skills and cultivate alternative knowledge construction, there are still gaps in the selection, integration, and implementation of the basic elements in physics laboratories. In this study, three modified guided discovery and conventional…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Discovery Learning, Comparative Analysis
Khishfe, Rola – International Journal of Science Education, 2022
This study investigated the effect of explicit nature of science (NOS) instruction and explicit argumentation instruction in socioscientific and scientific contexts, on students' NOS conceptions and their argumentation skills. Undergraduate students enrolled in two sections of a science content course were assigned into two groups: Socioscientific…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Persuasive Discourse, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes
Rollinde, Emmanuel; Decamp, Nicolas; Derniaux, Catherine – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
The experiment that we present in this paper explores the teaching of Galilean motion principles observed in different reference frames, in an astronomical context. All grade 10 students in a French high school (the lycée Condorcet, Val de Marne) participated in two successive teaching-learning sessions, designed within the theoretical framework…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Astronomy, Science Instruction, Learning Processes
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
Agustian, Hendra Y. – Electronic Journal for Research in Science & Mathematics Education, 2020
This study focused on exploring and evaluating students' views of the Nature of Science in the context of undergraduate chemistry laboratory. Thirty-six undergraduate students doing a laboratory course in upper division physical chemistry were assessed using an open-ended instrument and assessment criteria that categorise them in three levels of…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Undergraduate Students, College Science, Chemistry
Ozer, Seyma; Kiray, Seyit Ahmet; Cardak, Osman – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2021
Purpose: Awareness of the interaction between science, technology, society, and environment (STSE) is seen as important in life in the modern world. Therefore, the present study aimed to examine the science teacher candidates' views on relations between science, technology, society, and environment. Research Methods: In this research, which used…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Education, Science and Society, Scientific Principles