There is widespread agreement that an adequate understanding of the nature of science
(NOS) is a critical component of scientific literacy and a major goal in science education …

Although microteaching is a common approach to engaging preservice teachers in reflection
on teaching in on-campus courses, this reflection is usually carried out as a separate part …

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 …

The aim of the present study was to investigate the influence of the explicit nature of science
instruction embedded in the Argument-Driven Inquiry method compared with an implicit …

Despite the importance of the theory of evolution (TE) to scientific knowledge, a number of
misconceptions continue to be found among biology teachers. In this context, the first …

The results of studies of the nature of science (NOS) as a factor that enhances students'
understanding of evolution have been inconclusive. Therefore, the main purpose of this …

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effectiveness of pedagogical content
knowledge (PCK)–based nature of science (NOS) teaching on pre-service science …

A number of authors have recognized the importance of understanding the nature of science
(NOS) for scientific literacy. Different instructional strategies such as decontextualized …

To attain the goal of scientific literacy, the nature of science (NOS) is one of the areas that
should be addressed. In many countries, the training of scientifically literate generations is a …

This paper studies four key aspects of the instrument “Views of Nature of Science”(VNOS); a)
its general characteristics, b) the particular characteristics of the forms VNOS-A, VNOS-B …