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Klaver, Lida T.; Walma van der Molen, Juliette H.; Sins, Patrick H. M.; Guérin, Laurence J. F. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2023
The current study is about students' engagement with socioscientific issues (SSI). We explored the use of sources of knowledge about SSI and attitudes toward SSI among a sample of 1676 Dutch 8- to 16-year-old students. First, we developed a questionnaire that measured students' use of four sources of knowledge about SSI: Social Resources (online…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Science and Society
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Lida T. Klaver; Laurence J. F. Guérin; Patrick H. M. Sins; Juliette H. Walma van der Molen – Journal of Educational Research, 2024
Engagement with socioscientific issues (SSI) is seen as an important citizenship goal of SSI-based science education. In this experimental study, Dutch students (age 8 to 13) participated in lesson series in which they learned about and discussed SSI, such as issues related to the textile industry and wastewater. Attitudes toward SSI indicating…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science and Society, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods