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Download full textOzden, Muhammet – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2020
Purpose: Since developing science literacy is a primary objective of science education and socio-scientific (SSI) decision-making is an important aspect of science literacy, it is valuable to explore how students structure their decisions related to SSIs, and how they discuss and solve SSIs. The aim of present study was to examine elementary…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Logical Thinking, Science and Society, Thinking Skills
Sema Öztürk; Hamdi Karakas – Turkish Journal of Education, 2024
This study aims to determine the effect of scenario-based teaching based on socioscientific issues in the life science courses on decision-making skills, attitudes towards the course, and academic achievement of primary school students. The research was conducted during the life science course and scenario-based teaching activities in the context…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Decision Making, Vignettes
Direct linkRimm-Kaufman, Sara E.; Merritt, Eileen G.; Lapan, Candace; DeCoster, Jamie; Hunt, Ashley; Bowers, Nicole – Grantee Submission, 2020
This randomized controlled trial examined the efficacy of an elementary school service-learning program, Connect Science (CS), on classroom practices and students' science achievement, civic engagement, and social skills. Fourth grade teachers were enrolled into intervention versus control conditions resulting in 41 classrooms (20 intervention)…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Elementary School Students, Program Effectiveness, Science Achievement
Kos, Živa – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2021
Based on Foucault's concept of the dispositive, the paper attempts to show how societies and schools have been functioning for some time now by regulating three dispositives: juridical, disciplinary, and security. While the crises of the 1970s shifted the combination of dispositives in education in the West towards security, this shift in the…
Descriptors: Quality Assurance, Educational Quality, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries
Greenberg Motamedi, Jason; Singh, Malkeet – Education Northwest, 2016
Oregon Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement (MESA) focuses its afterschool programs with middle and high school students on inventions that address key problems in developing countries, such as sustainable lighting, water transportation, water filtration, and prosthetics. With the support of a grant from the Oregon Community Foundation,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, After School Programs, Grades (Scholastic), Science Achievement
Hanegan, Nikki L.; Price, Laura; Peterson, Jeremy – Science & Education, 2008
This study examines how student practice of scientific argumentation using socioscientific bioethics issues affects both teacher expectations of students' general performance and student confidence in their own work. When teachers use bioethical issues in the classroom students can gain not only biology content knowledge but also important…
Descriptors: Ethics, Student Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Decision Making
