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What Sort of Science Education Do We Really Need?
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Duggan, Sandra; Gott, Richard – International Journal of Science Education, 2002
Explores the role of science for employees in science-based industries and members of the public interacting with science in their everyday lives. Suggests that procedural understanding is essential in higher levels of industry and in interacting effectively with everyday issues while conceptual understanding is so specific that it is acquired in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Industry, Science Curriculum, Science Education
Intermediate General National Vocational Qualification (GNVQ) Science: A Missed Opportunity for a Focus on Procedural Understanding?
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Duggan, Sandra; Gott, Richard – Research in Science and Technological Education, 2000
Considers the role of a new vocational science qualification in the UK, the Intermediate General National Vocational Qualification (GNVQ) science, and how it relates to science-based employment. Reports the results of a small intervention study in which ideas about evidence were explicitly taught within Intermediate GNVQ science. (Contains 23…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Foreign Countries, Industry, Science Education