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Jiawen Xiang; Caiqin Han – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2024
Nature of science (NOS) has been a target of interest for decades. The main goal of this study is to explore the impact of the science, technology, society, environment (STSE) approach on students' understanding of NOS, taking "Galileo's study of free-fall motion" as an example. Participants in this study were 350 students of grade 10…
Descriptors: High School Students, Science Instruction, Concept Formation, Scientific Principles
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Shi, Xiaoming – Science & Education, 2021
Adopting an explicit and reflective approach to the teaching of the history and philosophy of science is useful in promoting high school students' understanding of the nature of science. Whereas the history of science is usually signposted clearly in the school science curriculum, the philosophy of science is considered to be embedded in and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Philosophy, Science Instruction, Reflective Teaching
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Zhu, Yucheng; He, Aiwen – Journal of Educational Research, 2022
This study investigates the effect of group collaborative argumentation on the quality of decision-making on waste incineration of socioscientific issues (SSI). To achieve this, fifty-nine high school students engaged with a lecture-style class that did not use any argumentation activities. They then completed an individual survey aimed at…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Social Problems, Decision Making, Sanitation