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Lin, Tzung-Jin; Tsai, Chin-Chung – International Journal of Science Education, 2017
This study employed the interview method to clarify the underlying dimensions of and relationships between students' scientific ontological and epistemic beliefs. Forty Taiwanese high school students were invited to participate in this study. Through content analysis of the participants' interview responses two ontological dimensions including…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Beliefs, Epistemology
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Liu, Shiang-Yao; Lederman, Norman G. – International Journal of Science Education, 2007
This study explores the relationship, if any, between an individual's culturally based worldviews and conceptions of nature of science. In addition, the implications of this relationship (or lack of relationship) for science teaching and learning are discussed. Participants were 54 Taiwanese prospective science teachers. Their conceptions of…
Descriptors: World Views, Scientific Enterprise, Science Curriculum, Science Teachers
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Chan, Ke-Sheng – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2005
This study attempts to determine whether there exists a negative interconnection between the creative and testable nature-of-science (NOS) conceptions in college students' conceptual ecology by investigating, through a pair of IHV-assisted teaching experiments, the effect of raising the status of each NOS conception in students' conceptual ecology…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Scientific Principles