The use of argumentation in science education is associated with many benefits. Some of
these include developing critical skills, promoting spirit of enquiry, enhancing conceptual …

The trend of socioscientific issues (SSIs) has been emergent in the science-and technology-
dominated society of today. Accordingly, during the past 20 years, students' skills of …

Findings generated by recent research in science education, international debate on the
guiding purposes of science education and the nature of scientific and technological literacy …

The purpose of this study was to examine students understandings about nature of science
(NOS) and their arguments in context of controversial socio-scientific issue (SSI). A total of …

This study investigated the relationship among 68 high school students' scientific
epistemological beliefs (SEBs), cognitive structures regarding nuclear power usage, and …

The study aims to investigate the effect of context-based learning (CBL) on vocational high
school students' chemical literacy of petroleum topics. Through quasi-experimental research …

Molecular life science is one of the fastest-growing fields of scientific and technical
innovation, and biotechnology has profound effects on many aspects of daily life—often with …

In the present STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)-driven society,
socioscientific issues (SSI) have become a focus globally and SSI research has grown into …

This article focuses on the use of Toulmin's argumentation scheme to investigate the
characteristics of student group argumentation in Peer‐Led Guided Inquiry sessions for a …

This study aims to explore students' argumentation and decision-making relating to an
authentic socioscientific issue (SSI)—the problem of environmental toxins in fish from the …