Are We on the Way to Successfully Educating Future Citizens?—A Spotlight on Critical Thinking Skills and Beliefs about the Nature of Science among Pre-Service …

VDE Welter, L Emmerichs-Knapp, M Krell - Behavioral Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
A rapidly changing world and constantly expanding knowledge requires education to no
longer focus on teaching subject-matter knowledge but also to promote students' critical …

Investigating complex phenomena: bridging between systems thinking and modeling in science education

T Bielik, M Krell, L Zangori, O Ben Zvi Assaraf - Frontiers in Education, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Complexity is all around us, from sub-atomic particles to distant galaxies. Modern
technology and knowledge provide us with incredible abilities to investigate the complexity …

Different Designs, Different Outcomes? A Critical Systematic Review of Interventions for Preparing Preservice Science Teachers to Teach Scientific Models and …

KKH Chan, DSP Lau, J Van Driel - Science Education, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Cultivating in preservice science teachers (PSTs) the competence required to teach
scientific models and modeling is a valued outcome of teacher preparation programs …

Validation of the Scientific Reasoning Competencies Instrument: Relationships with Epistemological Beliefs and Analytical Thinking

MA Küçükaydın, E Ayaz - … Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2025 - Springer
Scientific reasoning competencies (SRC) are an area of competence emphasized in science
education and are considered essential in the world of 21st Century skills. Developing these …

Adapting a self-efficacy scale to the task of teaching scientific reasoning: collecting evidence for its psychometric quality using Rasch measurement

VDE Welter, M Dawborn-Gundlach… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Besides teachers' professional knowledge, their self-efficacy is a crucial aspect in promoting
students' scientific reasoning (SR). However, because no measurement instrument has yet …

Using ACER ConQuest program to examine multidimensional and many-facet models

MS Koyuncu, M Şata - International journal of assessment tools in …, 2023 - dergipark.org.tr
The main aim of this study was to introduce the ConQuest program, which is used in the
analysis of multivariate and multidimensional data structures, and to show its applications on …

Development of preservice elementary teachers scientific reasoning skills through scientific inquiry

Z Koyunlu Ünlü, Ö Babayiğit, V Ünlü - Research in Science & …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Background Scientific reasoning is one of the higher-order thinking skills and has a very
important place in science education. However, the research shows that the scientific …

The Professional Competency Development Model of Science Teachers through Learning Leadership

S Utaminingsih, S Sundari… - Jurnal Pendidikan IPA …, 2024 - journal.unnes.ac.id
This research aims to analyze the the model for developing professional competence of
science teachers through learning leadership. This method is quantitative research applied …

Investigating the authenticity of “students” in microteaching for science pre-service teacher education

J Wang, Y Wang - Research in Science & Technological Education, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Background Clinical experience is important in science teacher preparation. Complexity in
authentic science teaching may overwhelm Pre-serviceTeachers (PST) and need to be …

Exploring Pre-service Teachers' Reasoning Levels on Pseudoscientific and Scientific Texts

D Saribas, E Çetinkaya - Science & Education, 2024 - Springer
We live in a post-truth era, where disinformation and misinformation spread rapidly. In such
an era, individuals need to be able to critically evaluate information. Investigating pre …