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Download full textAlfanisa Dwi Pramudia Wardani; Wirawan Fadly; Juan David Martinez Zayas – Journal of Science Learning, 2024
One of the points of science learning is to extend students' competence, counting problem-solving and analytical thinking. Conditions within the field appear that most students encounter trouble in fathoming relevant issues including the application of science concepts in real-world circumstances. This condition appears the require for compelling…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Science, Secondary School Students, Science Instruction
Direct linkMaría del Mar López-Fernández; Francisco González-García; Antonio Joaqui´n Franco-Mariscal – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
Socio-scientific issues demonstrate the relationship between science, technology, and society by considering currently unresolved questions. The problem of plastics and their pollution is just one example with important implications for the planet. The aim of this paper is to revisit socio-scientific issues and see them as a way of developing…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Citizen Participation
Sasmaz-Oren, Fatma; Karapinar, Aysegul; Sari, Kubranur; Demirer, Tugba – Journal of Theoretical Educational Science, 2022
In recent years, countries have focused specifically on improving thinking skills in their science education programs. One of the science lesson methods that can be used to activate the use of thinking processes is scientific scenarios. In this direction, the aim of the study is to investigate the effect of socioscientific subject-based…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Vignettes, Science and Society
Atabey, Nejla; Topcu, Mustafa Sami – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2020
The purpose of the current study is to reveal students' environmental attitudes, their informal reasoning, and how their informal reasoning on a socioscientific issue changes depending on their environmental attitudes. The study participants were 104 eighth-grade students. A form consisting of a scenario and open-ended questions was used as data…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 8, Student Attitudes, Thinking Skills
Chang, Hsin-Yi; Liang, Jyh-Chong; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2020
We engaged 47 eighth-grade students in a newly developed learning environment that integrates mobile augmented reality (AR) technology to support students' learning of nuclear energy use and radiation pollution, a topic related to a socioscientific issue (SSI) that involves complex reasoning considering scientific evidence and multiple…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 8, Handheld Devices, Computer Simulation
Hong, Zuway R.; Lin, Huann-Shyang; Lawrenz, Frances P. – International Journal of Science Education, 2012
The goal of this study was to test the effectiveness of integrating science and societal implication on adolescents' positive thinking and emotional perceptions about learning science. Twenty-five eighth-grade Taiwanese adolescents (9 boys and 16 girls) volunteered to participate in a 12-week intervention and formed the experimental group.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Intervention, Adolescents, Experimental Groups
