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In order to understand better the role of affect in learning about socio-scientific issues (SSI), this study investigated
Year 12 students’ emotional arousal as they participated in an online writing-to-learn science project about the socio-scientific
issue of biosecurity. Students wrote a series of hybridised scientific narratives, or BioStories, that integrate scientific
information about biosecurity with narrative storylines, and uploaded these to a dedicated website. Throughout their participation
in the project, students recorded their emotional responses to the various activities (N = 50). Four case students were also video recorded during selected science lessons as they researched, composed and uploaded
their BioStories for peer review. Analysis of these data, as well as interview data obtained from the case students, revealed
that pride, strength, determination, interest and alertness were among the positive emotions most strongly elicited by the
project. These emotions reflected students’ interest in learning about a new socio-scientific issue, and their enhanced feelings
of self-efficacy in successfully writing hybridised scientific narratives in science. The results of this study suggest that
the elicitation of positive emotional responses as students engage in hybridised writing about SSI with strong links to environmental
education, such as biosecurity, can be valuable in engaging students in education for sustainability. 相似文献
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Stephen M. Ritchie Louisa Tomas Megan Tones 《International Journal of Science Education》2013,35(5):685-707
In response to international concerns about scientific literacy and students’ waning interest in school science, this study investigated the effects of a science‐writing project about the socioscientific issue (SSI) of biosecurity on the development of students’ scientific literacy. Students generated two BioStories each that merged scientific information with the narrative storylines in the project. The study was conducted in two phases. In the exploratory phase, a qualitative case study of a sixth‐grade class involving classroom observations and interviews informed the design of the second, confirmatory phase of the study, which was conducted at a different school. This phase involved a mixed methods approach featuring a quasi‐experimental design with two classes of Australian middle school students (i.e., sixth grade, 11 years of age, n = 55). The results support the argument that writing the sequence of stories helped the students become more familiar with biosecurity issues, develop a deeper understanding of related biological concepts, and improve their interest in science. On the basis of these findings, teachers should be encouraged to engage their students in the practice of writing about SSI in a way that integrates scientific information into narrative storylines. Extending the practice to older students and exploring additional issues related to writing about SSI are recommended for further research. 相似文献
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AbstractClimate change as an instructional topic in K-12 schools is most frequently taught in the science classroom. However, it is a human issue requiring social as well as technological and scientific solutions. This study analyzes and evaluates a climate change curriculum implemented via an integrated social studies and language arts framework in a middle school classroom. The curriculum reflects collaboration between a private school, a climate education non-profit, and a government agency (NOAA). Following the first year of implementation, student surveys, teacher interviews, and classroom observations comprise the primary tools of data collection and evaluation. Based off these data, students demonstrate high levels of climate literacy, improvements in reading comprehension, and overall engagement with the topic. Teachers report successes and challenges of teaching the curriculum, and administrators offer opportunities for scaling and implementing the curriculum in other schools and contexts (including public schools). Findings from this study are relevant to climate change curriculum developers, researchers, and educators seeking to incorporate an interdisciplinary, socio-scientific approach to climate change education in their work. 相似文献
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Over the past thirty years, it has often been stated that primary school education should endeavour to improve and protect
the environment through producing an ‘environmentally informed, committed and active citizenry’. Even so, existing research
shows that the implementation of environmental education in primary schools is problematic and has had limited success. However,
the reasons for these shortcomings are far from clear, with present research merely speculating about barriers to effective
implementation. This paper presents a detailed discussion and analysis of primary school teachers knowledge and beliefs about
environmental concepts and environmental education. In so doing, the paper identifies a perceived gap within the field of
environmental education research and literature. This field has neglected studies of Australian primary school teacher’s knowledge
and beliefs about environmental education as a factor affecting the capacity of schooling to achieve environmental education
goals. To these ends, we utilise the concept of ‘environmental literacy’ to assess primary school teacher’s knowledge and
beliefs about environmental education. Based upon preliminary data analysis, we tentatively claim that current Queensland
primary school teachers are variably committed to and demonstrably lack content knowledge of environmental concepts and environmental
education. More significantly, these primary school teachers tend to dismiss the importance of content knowledge, preferring
to focus upon attitudes towards environmental education and environmental concepts. Clearly these levels of environmental
literacy are inadequate if environmentally literate students and thus an environmentally literate citizenry are to be achieved
within schools. We conclude that the introduction of environmental literacy in educational policy would advance the goals
of environmental education, namely the production of an informed, committed and active citizenry. 相似文献
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In the public discussion of genetically modified (GM) food the representations of science as a social good, conducted in the public interest to solve major problems are being subjected to intense scrutiny and questioning. Scientists working in these areas have been seen to struggle for the position of science in society. However few in situ studies of how the debate about science appears in learning situations at the university level have been undertaken. In the present study an introductory course in biotechnology was observed during one semester, lectures and small group supervision concerning GM food were videotaped and student’s reports on the issue were collected. The ethnographic approach to Discourse analysis was conducted by means of a set of carefully selected and representative observations of how a group of students learn to argue and appropriate views held in the Discourse they are enculturated into. While socio-scientific issues (SSIs) are often associated with achieving scientific literacy in terms of “informed decisions” involving “rational thought and Discourse” this study shows that SSI in practice, in the context studied here, is primarily concerned with using scientific language to privilege professional understandings of GMOs and discredit public worries and concerns. Scientific claims were privileged over ethical, economical and political claims which were either made irrelevant or rebutted. The students were seen to appropriate a Discourse model held in the biotechnological community that public opposition towards GMO is due to “insufficient knowledge”. The present study offers insights into biotechnology students’ decision making regarding socio-scientific issues, while also demonstrating the utility of Discourse analysis for understanding learning in this university context. Implications for reflection on the institutional Discourse of science and teaching of controversial issues in science are drawn and the study contributes to the investigation of claims of scientific literacy coupled to SSIs and argumentation 相似文献
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What Do Students Gain by Engaging in Socioscientific Inquiry? 总被引：1，自引：1，他引：1
The question of what students gain by engaging in socioscientific inquiry is addressed in two ways. First, relevant literature
is surveyed to build the case that socioscientific issues (SSI) can serve as useful contexts for teaching and learning science
content. Studies are reviewed which document student gains in discipline specific content knowledge as well as understandings
of the nature of science. SSI are also positioned as vehicles for addressing citizenship education within science classrooms.
Although the promotion of citizenship goals seems widely advocated, the specifics of how this may be accomplished remain underdeveloped.
To address this issue, we introduce socioscientific reasoning as a construct which captures a suite of practices fundamental to the negotiation of SSI. In the second phase of the project,
interviews with 24 middle school students from classes engaged in socioscientific inquiry serve as the basis for the development
of an emergent rubric for socioscientific reasoning. Variation in practices demonstrated by this sample are explored and implications
drawn for advancing socioscientific reasoning as an educationally meaningful and assessable construct. 相似文献
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AbstractPopular media often reports on the carbon footprint of certain activities, items or people. We were curious to explore how people make sense of these news pieces, and specifically, whether and how carbon literacy (CL) and quantitative literacy (QL) influences their reasoning. We interviewed and surveyed students of various backgrounds using simulated news pieces of three carbon footprints: that of Facebook, that of the US dairy industry, and that of the US chocolate industry. We found that being highly carbon or quantitatively literate influenced participants’ reaction – but only while they were gathering information about the prompts. The effect of literacies disappeared when they were asked to decide whether the carbon footprint was worrisome or which they would tackle first as a policy-maker. We describe and categorize the strategies students used to make sense of carbon footprints, and link the frequency of using particular strategies to their carbon and quantitative literacy. Implications for future research and environmental education are discussed. 相似文献
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高中物理教学中科学素养的培养 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
黄宏梅 《黄冈师范学院学报》2006,26(3):71-74,96
培养学生的科学素养是科学教育目的的重要组成部分,受到世界各国科学教育界的普遍重视。高中物理课程作为主要的科学课程之一,加之其独特的学科特点,在物理教学中进行科学素养培养的途径很多。 相似文献
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Ying-Tien Wu 《Research in Science Education》2013,43(5):1873-1890
This study aims to provide insights into the role of learners’ knowledge structures about a socio-scientific issue (SSI) in their informal reasoning on the issue. A total of 42 non-science major university students’ knowledge structures and informal reasoning were assessed with multidimensional analyses. With both qualitative and quantitative analyses, this study revealed that those students with more extended and better-organized knowledge structures, as well as those who more frequently used higher-order information processing modes, were more oriented towards achieving a higher-level informal reasoning quality. The regression analyses further showed that the “richness” of the students’ knowledge structures explained 25 % of the variation in their rebuttal construction, an important indicator of reasoning quality, indicating the significance of the role of students’ sophisticated knowledge structure in SSI reasoning. Besides, this study also provides some initial evidence for the significant role of the “core” concept within one’s knowledge structure in one’s SSI reasoning. The findings in this study suggest that, in SSI-based instruction, science instructors should try to identify students’ core concepts within their prior knowledge regarding the SSI, and then they should try to guide students to construct and structure relevant concepts or ideas regarding the SSI based on their core concepts. Thus, students could obtain extended and well-organized knowledge structures, which would then help them achieve better learning transfer in dealing with SSIs. 相似文献
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Mageswary Karpudewan Wolff-Michael Roth 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2018,16(3):401-419
Recent studies emphasize the importance of learning science while considering multiple perspectives on environment, society, economy, and technology, which allows learners to relate what they do in the classroom to the world beyond. In this study, 68 12-year-old primary students from 1 Malaysian school were followed while they engaged in a science curriculum centered around 8 environment-related socio-scientific issues during a unit on the interaction among living things. The analysis shows that the informal reasoning skills of the students improved significantly. Progressive implementation of SSI activities encouraged students to use evidence-based decision-making, improving reasoning modes, and advancing reasoning levels. 相似文献
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Abstract Environmental literacy has been defined in numerous ways and attempts have been made to measure how environmentally literate people are. Many attempts to measure literacy have instead measured people's knowledge about pollution and their attitudes toward the environment. According to many environmental education experts, knowledge and attitudes are important components of environmental literacy, especially if the goal of environmental education is to change behavior. However, the experts also indicate that, to change an individual's behavior, knowledge about the environment must be associated with environmental sensitivity, personal beliefs, and decisionmaking and problem-solving skills. The research presented in this article contributes to environmental literacy research by offering a tested, valid survey instrument to measure ecological knowledge—one component of environmental literacy. In this article, we provide an example of how this instrument can be applied by comparing knowledge levels among diverse groups of Ohio citizens. 相似文献
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For the past two decades, scholars have advocated for reforms in teacher education that emphasize relevant connections between theory and practice in university coursework and focus on clinical experiences. This paper is based on our experiences in designing and implementing an integrated literacy methods course in a field-based teacher education program. We describe issues involved in helping preservice teachers learn to differentiate literacy instruction for diverse learners in urban schools and describe how we use Grossman’s framework of representation, decomposition, and approximation of practice to connect theory and practice. We offer insights about the importance of using recursive cycles of practice and carefully scaffolded learning through attention to different aspects of practice. Initial successes and challenges in implementing field-based literacy education are discussed. 相似文献
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Michael Carey Peter Grainger Michael Christie 《Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education》2018,46(3):267-278
Data driven pedagogy has been introduced into Australian schools over the last decade to improve student learning outcomes, but are teacher educators preparing preservice teachers to be data literate? We used a survey to investigate ready-to-graduate preservice teachers’ beliefs regarding their knowledge and skills in data literacy. Before entering a course on data literacy their belief responses indicated that they had basic data interpretation knowledge, but they were unsure of how to translate that knowledge into the classroom to improve student outcomes. The survey was administered again after a data literacy course, which included a five-week supervised professional experience task of observing data being used in schools to drive pedagogy. The post-course survey responses showed students increased confidence in their ability to interpret and use data, suggesting that a data literacy course linked to the professional experience task improves teachers’ sense of preparedness to use data in the classroom. Keywords: Data literacy; professional learning. 相似文献
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普通高中化学课程标准(2017版)提出学科核心素养是学生通过学科学习而逐步形成正确的价值观念、必备品格和关键能力。而化学学科素养包括“宏观辨识与创微观探析”“变化观念与平衡思想”“证据推理与模型认知”“科学探究与创新意识”等方面。经实习调研发现,基于新课改,化学不再是高中阶段理科必学科目,如何在有限教学时间完成教学任务以及如何激发学生学习兴趣是现在需要思考的问题。基于教育实践提出的相关教学问题,从建构主义理论结合新课标提出探究式教改策略。 相似文献
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肖小山 《南昌教育学院学报》2012,27(3):111+113
我国新一轮基础教育改革的一个非常重要的目标就是要培养高中生的科学精神,从而保证科学教育能够凌驾于公式与符号之上,提升高中生的科学素养。但是,在现阶段,在高中物理课堂教学中很少融入科学素养的培养,这不利于高中高中生的科学潜力的挖掘。基于此,本文结合具体的课堂教学情况,进行了关于在高中物理课堂教学中融入科学素养的培养的思考,提出了一些方法,希望能够有利于培养高中生的科学素养。 相似文献
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高考新政在全国范围内逐步推广,新政前后高中生的科学教育发生哪些变化?这些变化导致高中生科学素养的培养被强化还是被弱化?这些问题亟须探讨。研究建构科学素养理论框架,编制高信度效度的高中生科学素养测试卷,结合访谈,采用纵向调查设计,分别从科学知识、科学思维、科学探究三个维度调查北京市和山东省一流、较好、一般三层次高中参加老高考的2016级和参加新高考的2017级学生。研究发现:与新政前相比,高考新政后两省市高中生科学素养整体水平下降,科学知识与科学思维下降最为明显,此系两省市新老高考方案对科学科目要求差别较大造成;不同层次高中科学素养变化程度不同,一流层次学校高中生变化较小,一般层次学校下降幅度较大,此系不同层次学校教学管理水平及学生学习主动性差异造成;新政带来的积极变化是男女生选考文理科的界限被打破,科学素养差距显著缩小,但所付出的代价是男生比女生科学素养降低幅度更大,其原因并非女生科学素养的提高所致;随着两省市首批考生新高考的结束,“选科博弈”或将加剧,上海市和浙江省遇到的困境或许会重现,高中生科学素养的培养有可能被进一步弱化。据此,研究提出了若干政策建议。 相似文献
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PISA评价是目前世界上最有影响力的国际学生评价项目之一,它的突出特点是评价义务教育将近结束时学生学习的总结果.评价的内容主要是生活所需要的基本知识和技能:阅读素养、数学素养、科学素养以及问题解决能力.此外,还收集学生的学习态度、学习策略、家庭背景以及学校因素等影响学生表现的背景信息.PISA评价的结果具有高度的可比性、可信性和有效性,能为教育改革和发展提供有益的启示. 相似文献
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The currency, relevancy and changing nature of science makes it a natural topic of focus for mass media outlets. Science teachers
and students can capitalize on this wealth of scientific information to explore socio-scientific and sustainability issues;
however, without a lens on how those media are created and how representations of science are constructed through media, the
use of mass media in the science classroom may be risky. Limited research has explored how science teachers naturally use
mass media to explore scientific issues in the classroom or how mass media is used to address potential overlaps between socio-scientific-issue
based instruction and education for sustainability. This naturalistic study investigated the reported and actual classroom
uses of mass media by secondary science teachers’ to explore socio-scientific and sustainability issues as well as the extent
to which their instructional approaches did or did not overlap with frameworks for SSI-based instruction, education for sustainability,
and media literacy education. The results of this study suggest that secondary science teachers use mass media to explore
socio-scientific and sustainability issues, but their use of frameworks aligned with SSI-based, education for sustainability,
and media literacy education was limited. This paper provides suggestions for how we, as science educators and researchers,
can advance a teaching and learning agenda for encouraging instruction that more fully utilizes the potential of mass media
to explore socio-scientific issues in line with perspectives from education for sustainability. 相似文献
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核心素养是新课程改革下学科教学的重要目标,而在高中生物教学过程中展开建模教学,可以有效地提高学生的想象能力和逻辑思维能力,促使学生掌握有效的生物学习方法,从而实现对学生的终生教育,使学生的生物核心素养得到有效的发展。因此,在高中生物教学过程中,教师要积极加强建模教学的应用,因为只有这样才能在培养学生的能力的同时促进学生学科素养的养成,才能对学生的生物学习进行正面的引导,推动生物教学的顺利进行。 相似文献