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Yu-Ching Chen – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2025
Occupational safety and health education is usually lecture-based, and students generally have limited retention. Immersive virtual reality (IVR) facilitates students to learn and explore more actively in safe environments. However, learning with the aid of IVR may not guarantee better learning achievement, practical skills, and positive…
Descriptors: Occupational Safety and Health, Computer Simulation, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Kaplan Mintz, Keren; Arazy, Ofer; Malkinson, Dan – Environmental Education Research, 2023
Although participation in citizen science can improve cognitive and affective learning outcomes, many citizen science projects exhibit low retention rates. By gaining an understanding of forms of engagement, reasons for ongoing participation, and the impact of project design on participant motivation and engagement, we can help keep people…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Science Education, Interpersonal Relationship, Scientific Research
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Bernal-Munera, Marcela – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2023
This paper discusses the value of a Freirean liberatory perspective in community colleges, countering the traditional "second chance" or "social reproduction" viewpoints attributed by scholars to the education offered in these institutions, emphasizing its vital need in science and healthcare careers education. I explore the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Biology, Science Instruction, Curriculum
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Mahlianurrahman; Lasmawan, I. Wayan; Candiasa, I. Made; Suastra, I. Wayan – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2023
This study aims to describe the effect of the Nyerayo-based Science, Environment, Technology, and Society learning model on the scientific literacy skills of elementary school students in East Kluet District, South Aceh Regency. Learning Science, Environment, Technology, Society (SETS) has an important role in improving the scientific literacy and…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Literacy, Elementary School Students, Comparative Analysis
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Takriti, Rachel; Tairab, Hassan; Alhosani, Najwa; Elhoweris, Hala; Schofield, Lindsay; Rabbani, Lutfieh; AlAmirah, Iman – Science & Education, 2023
Nature of science (NOS) is a global conception of the infrastructure of science and, therefore, forms the foundation for teaching and learning science, especially for preservice teachers who are expected to have the proper understanding of NOS to thoughtfully emphasize NOS within their instruction to students. However, studies investigating UAE…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Scientific Principles, Foreign Countries
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Canlas, Ian Phil; Molino-Magtolis, Joyce – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in numerous setbacks in the different sectors of society until today "(as of writing)" including higher education institutions worldwide. Nevertheless, it also created opportunities to explore different aspects of pandemic prevention and preparedness. Specifically, this study attempted to explore…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Beliefs, Trust (Psychology), COVID-19
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Chen, Chih-Ming; Li, Ming-Chaun; Huang, Ya-Ling – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
By applying two-mode social networks and Chinese word segmentation technologies, a novel visualization tool, the instant semantic analysis and feedback system (ISAFS), is designed in this study to present the semantic networks of co-words and non-co-words used in learners' discussion processes and assist learners in grasping the discussion…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Semantics, Feedback (Response)
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Cansiz, Nurcan – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2023
This paper presents a cooperative learning activity on a nuclear power plant to develop students' reasoning skills on socioscientific issues. To this end, the steps in the implementation of the activity have been given in detail. The activity was implemented in an undergraduate course with senior preservice science teachers, whose reflections were…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Thinking Skills, Science and Society, Science Activities
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Clegg, Tamara; Hernly, Kenna; Ahn, June; Yip, Jason C.; Bonsignore, Elizabeth; Pauw, Daniel; Pitt, Caroline – American Educational Research Journal, 2023
Supporting youths' STEM dispositions takes an entire community of adults, yet we must understand the dispositions that adults bring to such community efforts, ways they influence youths' learning and are shaped by the community. In this paper, we examine a sociotechnical system called Science Everywhere, which invited the broader community to…
Descriptors: Science Education, Urban Education, STEM Education, Science and Society
Canadian Association of University Teachers, 2023
Universities, colleges, and polytechnics are key public institutions that play an important role in Canadian society. From places of learning, research and discovery to economic hubs and community pillars, postsecondary institutions are at the forefront of innovation and problem-solving for the complex issues the country faces. However, years of…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Federal Government, Foreign Countries, Investment
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Antuni Wiyarsi; Muammer Çalik; Erfan Priyambodo; Dina Dina – Science & Education, 2024
This study explored Indonesian prospective teachers' views on the adapted (including global socio-scientific issues) and revisited (including local socio-scientific issues) versions of the scientific habits of mind (SHOM) scale and compared their SHOM levels concerning teacher education programs and grades. The sample of the study consisted of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Cognitive Processes
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Shannon Watkins; Jenna Robinson – Academic Questions, 2024
All learning, particularly higher learning, is premised on the notion that there is such a thing as truth and that it is eminently worth pursuing. All serious inquiries into the various branches of human knowledge have the discovery and dissemination of truth as their end goals. The humanities are no exception. In the last several decades,…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Humanities Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Jiawen Xiang; Caiqin Han – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2024
Nature of science (NOS) has been a target of interest for decades. The main goal of this study is to explore the impact of the science, technology, society, environment (STSE) approach on students' understanding of NOS, taking "Galileo's study of free-fall motion" as an example. Participants in this study were 350 students of grade 10…
Descriptors: High School Students, Science Instruction, Concept Formation, Scientific Principles
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Agung W. Subiantoro; David Treagust; Kok-Sing Tang – Journal of Biological Education, 2024
This research aimed to understand the features of the informal reasoning skills performed by students who debated the socio-scientific contentious issue of breastfeeding versus milk formula during an Indonesian biology lesson. A class of 30 students in grade 11 discussed this issue by participating in a role play represented by four organisations…
Descriptors: Science and Society, Nutrition, Infants, Biology
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Susan M. Stocklmayer; Tom Netshisaulu; Annelize Potgieter; Graham J. Walker – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2024
Over two years, a graduate diploma program in science communication was designed and delivered by a university in the Republic of South Africa with assistance from a university in Australia. Building on the Australian program, the design incorporated cross-cultural and Indigenous Knowledge elements in keeping with the ethos of the South African…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Indigenous Knowledge, Culturally Relevant Education, Interpersonal Communication
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