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Khishfe, Rola – International Journal of Science Education, 2012
The study investigated the relationship of nature of science (NOS) instruction and students' decision-making (DM) related to a controversial socioscientific issue about genetically modified food. Participants were ninth-grade students in four intact sections (two regulars and two honors) in a public high school in the Midwest. All four groups were…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Scientific Principles, Genetics, Engineering
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Khishfe, Rola; Lederman, Norman – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2006
This study investigated the influence of two different explicit instructional approaches in promoting more informed understandings of nature of science (NOS) among students. Participants, a total of 42 students, comprised two groups in two intact sections of ninth grade. Participants in the two groups were taught environmental science by their…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Grade 9, Teaching Methods, Scientific Principles