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Wei, Bing; Jiang, Zhimeng; Gai, Lichun – Science & Education, 2022
Practical work is a distinctive feature of school science and has close associations with scientific experiment and scientific methods as well. In this study, the nature of practical work was examined in the view of the diversity of scientific methods. Based on an analytical framework derived from Brandon's matrix consisting of four categories of…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Textbook Evaluation, Biology, Chemistry
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Wei, Bing; Chen, Yue – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
The term 'experiment' is used in different ways to mean different things in school science. This study examines the meanings of 'experiment' and how they have changed in the intended chemistry curriculum (ICC) in China since the early 1950s. A mixed methodology was adopted to analyse the 11 ICC documents from a socio-historical perspective. The…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Chemistry, Science Curriculum, Course Content