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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
Emery, Katherine Beth – ProQuest LLC, 2013
People worldwide are faced with making decisions daily. While many decisions are quick (e.g., what clothes to wear), others, such as those about environmental issues (e.g., overfishing), require more thought and have less immediate outcomes. How one makes such decisions depends on how one interprets, evaluates, and uses evidence. The central…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Evidence, Decision Making, Science and Society