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Colburn, Alan – Science Teacher, 2004
Scientific knowledge is tentative and open to revision. This sense of tentativeness, or changeability, is missing in the way textbooks and teachers often portray the nature of science (NOS). Instead, students are left with the impression that the scientific method produces sure knowledge and that they can uncritically accept the knowledge because…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Scientific Principles, Laboratory Experiments, Scientific Methodology

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