Irish secondary school science teachers’ perspectives on addressing the COVID-19 crisis as socioscientific issues [PDF]
Development of scientific literacy is a crucial aim of science education across the globe and research suggests that this can be realized through student exploration of socioscientific issues.
Ruth Chadwick, Eilish McLoughlin
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Students Need More than Content Knowledge To Counter Vaccine Hesitancy [PDF]
To better prepare undergraduate students as informed citizens, they need skills to evaluate and interpret scientific data that are relevant to real world scenarios.
Star W. Lee, Stacy Tran
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A framework to identify opportunities to address socioscientific issues in the elementary school curricula: A case study from England, Italy, and Portugal. [PDF]
Scientific literacy is crucial to address important and complex societal problems, both current and future. Teaching using a socioscientific issues (SSI) approach is a potential strategy to develop students' scientific literacy, although teachers have ...
Patrícia Pessoa +11 more
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SOCIOSCIENTIFIC ISSUES (SSI) IN REACTION RATES TOPIC AND ITS EFFECT ON THE CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS [PDF]
The aim of this research was to investigate the difference in students’ critical thinking which learnt cooperatively using different learning context.
Y. N. Pratiwi, S. Rahayu, F. Fajaroh
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Modifying the CREATE method with inclusive approaches helps students engage with socioscientific applications of the primary scientific literature [PDF]
Undergraduate students need the opportunity to engage with primary scientific literature so they can gain a greater understanding of the scientific process and insights into the larger impacts of scientific research in their field.
Delaney Worthington, Nicole Kelp
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mSphere of Influence: No More Excuses—Addressing Race, Racism, and Socioeconomic Issues in the Science Classroom and Laboratory [PDF]
Pascale Guiton works in the field of parasitology at a primarily undergraduate institution. In this mSphere of Influence article, she reflects on her difficulties as a faculty of color to discuss socioscientific issues in her classrooms. T.
Pascale S. Guiton
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Children’s perspective-taking and decision-making on forests and land use [PDF]
Students’ reasoning and decision making on complex socioscientific issues are critical for developing scientific literacy for 21st century citizenship. By incorporating a scenario-based approach, this study aims to understand the complexity of students ...
Mijung Kim +4 more
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Students’ perceptions of social issues in biology courses [PDF]
Students’ scientific literacy may be improved by the integration of social issues into biology courses, enabling them to make informed decisions on social issues in the context of their scientific knowledge.
Stacy Tran +3 more
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Currently, there are already many countries that have revised their science curricula to be sure effective science learning environments. Blessing in this revision, socioscientific issues are integrated into the curriculum.
Legy Gustiawan* +2 more
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Students’ Civic Engagement Self-Efficacy Varies Across Socioscientific Issues Contexts
In STEM learning focused on science literacy, socioscientific issues instruction is often proposed as a way to bolster students’ civic engagement, however few studies in science education have explicitly examined this connection.
Jenny M. Dauer +2 more
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