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Investigation of Preservice Science Teachers' Nature of Science Understanding and Decision Making on Socioscientific Issue through the Fractal Model
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Adal, Elif Ece; Cakiroglu, Jale – Science & Education, 2023
The paper reports a qualitative study to reveal how preservice science teachers' decision making (DM) processes on socioscientific issue (SSI) in a referendum case compare between unsophisticated (Group U) and sophisticated (Group S) views in terms of nature of science (NOS) understandings. Firstly, pre-study was conducted with focus group…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Decision Making, Science and Society
Pre-Service Science Teachers' Written Argumentation Qualities: From the Perspectives of Socio- Scientific Issues, Epistemic Belief Levels and Online Discussion Environment
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Isbilir, Erdinc; Cakiroglu, Jale; Ertepinar, Hamide – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2014
This study investigated the relationship between pre-service science teachers' written argumentation levels about socio-scientific issues and epistemic belief levels in an online discussion environment. A mixed-methods approach was used: 30 Turkish pre-service science teachers contributed with their written argumentations to four socio-scientific…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Persuasive Discourse, Writing (Composition)