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Scientific Evidence as Content Knowledge: A Replication Study with English and Turkish Pre-Service Primary Teachers
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Roberts, Ros; Sahin-Pekmez, Esin – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2012
Pre-service teachers around the world need to develop their content knowledge of scientific evidence to meet the requirements of recent school curriculum developments which prepare pupils to be scientifically literate. This research reports a replication study in Turkey of an intervention originally carried out with pre-service primary teachers in…
Descriptors: Evidence, Intervention, Foreign Countries, Reading Instruction
The Roles of Substantive and Procedural Understanding in Open-Ended Science Investigations: Using Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis to Compare Two Different Tasks
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Glaesser, Judith; Gott, Richard; Roberts, Ros; Cooper, Barry – Research in Science Education, 2009
We examine the respective roles of substantive understanding (i.e., understanding of factual knowledge, concepts, laws and theories) and procedural understanding (an understanding of ideas about evidence; concepts such as reliability and validity, measurement and calibration, data collection, measurement error, the ability to interpret evidence…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Investigations, Data Analysis, Comparative Analysis
Underlying Success in Open-Ended Investigations in Science: Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis to Identify Necessary and Sufficient Conditions
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Glaesser, Judith; Gott, Richard; Roberts, Ros; Cooper, Barry – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2009
Both substantive (i.e. factual knowledge, concepts, laws and theories) and procedural knowledge (understanding and applying concepts such as reliability and validity, measurement and calibration, data collection, measurement error, the ability to interpret evidence and the like) are involved in carrying out an open-ended science investigation.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Investigations, Student Attitudes, Comparative Analysis