It has long been a goal of science education in the United States that students leave school
with a robust understanding of the nature of science. Decades of research show that this …

This review examines 105 empirical studies that investigate students' views of the nature of
science (VNOS), effects of curricular interventions on changing students' VNOS, and …

The chapter sets out the agenda for the entire book. The primary aim is to illustrate the
context for the articulation of how “Nature of Science”(NOS) can be conceptualized and …

Names: Mercer, Neil, editor.| Wegerif, Rupert, 1959-editor.| Major, Louis,(Louis Christopher),
1985-editor. Title: The Routledge international handbook of research on dialogic …

Helping students develop informed views about scientific inquiry (SI) has been and
continues to be a goal of K‐12 science education, as evidenced in various reform …

The purpose of this article is to review recent research on self-regulated learning and
discuss the implications of this research for science education. We draw on examples of self …

The title of this chapter deliberately includes two terms-scientific literacy and science literacy,
abbreviated together as SL. The literature on SL has mushroomed in the past two decades …

I profile here a prospective method for assessing nature of science (NOS) knowledge, as an
alternative to VNOS and similar approaches. Questions about cases in contemporary news …

This paper set emerged from an international symposium that aimed to shed light on issues
associated with the enactment of inquiry both as means (ie, inquiry as an instructional …

Reform efforts emphasize teaching science to promote contemporary views of the nature of
science (NOS) and scientific inquiry. Within the framework of situated cognition, the …