New directions in socioscientific issues research [PDF]
Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research, 2019 The socioscientific issues framework has proven to have a significant impact over the last two decades on many areas related to the development of functional scientific literacy in students.
Dana L. Zeidler +2 more
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Irish secondary school science teachers’ perspectives on addressing the COVID-19 crisis as socioscientific issues [PDF]
Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research, 2022 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]
Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 2023 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]
PLoS ONEScientific 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 Thinking and Action in the Midst of Science-in-the-Making. [PDF]
Sci Educ (Dordr), 2022 Like all SSI, the COVID-19 pandemic requires decisions that are contentious, involve scientific thinking, and vary across social groups. This investigation determined how perceptions about COVID-19 science and sociocultural membership associate with 557 university biology students': (1) COVID-19 behaviors after stay-at-home orders and (2) support for ...
Herman BC, Clough MP, Rao A.
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Learning Nature of Science Through Socioscientific Issues [PDF]
Socio-scientific Issues in the Classroom, 2011 A series of reforms in science education in Hong Kong started at the turn of the twenty-first century. In line with international trends, science education in Hong Kong has undergone considerable changes in the last decade since the implementation of the revised junior secondary science curriculum (grades 7–9) (Curriculum Development Council [CDC ...
Wong S, Wan Z, Cheng M.
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Modifying the CREATE method with inclusive approaches helps students engage with socioscientific applications of the primary scientific literature [PDF]
Journal of Microbiology & Biology EducationUndergraduate 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]
mSphere, 2021 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]
Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education ResearchStudents’ 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]
Journal of Microbiology & Biology EducationStudents’ 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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