Socioscientific issues encompass social dilemmas with conceptual or technological links to
science. The process of resolving these issues is best characterized by informal reasoning …

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 …

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 …

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 …

This paper set emerged from an international symposium that aimed to shed light on issues
associated with the enactment of inquiry both as means (ie, inquiry as an instructional …

This study investigated the influence of an explicit and reflective inquiry‐oriented compared
with an implicit inquiry‐oriented instructional approach on sixth graders' understandings of …

Learning progressions are the successively more sophisticated ways of thinking about an
idea that follow one another over a broad span of time. This review examines the research …

The ubiquitous goals of helping precollege students develop informed conceptions of nature
of science (NOS) and experience inquiry learning environments that progressively …

The purpose of this study is to contribute to a theoretical knowledge base through research
by examining factors salient to science education reform and practice in the context of …