This paper aimed to review, and assess the'effectiveness' of the attempts undertaken to
improve prospective and practising science teachers' conceptions of nature of science …

Providing support focused on real challenges is critical in retaining highly qualified new
science teachers, but the field lacks a systematic description of these teachers' needs. The …

Socioscientific issues (SSI) has proven to be a viable educational framework in recent years.
References to SSI can be found in the literature as far back as the 1980s (eg, Fleming …

This opinion piece paper urges teachers and teacher educators to draw careful distinctions
among four basic learning goals: learning science, learning about science, doing science …

Epistemic practices are the socially organized and interactionally accomplished ways that
members of a group propose, communicate, assess, and legitimize knowledge claims …

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 …

Understanding the nature of science (NOS) has emerged as a core curricular goal since at
least the 1960s. While science education reforms around the world have shed light on …

Helping students develop informed views of nature of science (NOS) has been and
continues to be a central goal for kindergarten through Grade 12 (K–12) science education …

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 …

Several studies have found active learning to enhance students' motivation and attitudes.
Yet, faculty indicate that students resist active learning and censure them on evaluations …