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 …

Este estudio presenta una revisión de los contenidos para la enseñanza de la llamada
“naturaleza de la ciencia”(y tecnología) desde las diversas aportaciones de la investigación …

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 …

This chapter argues that one weakness of the important and influential nature of science
(NOS) research in science education is that it is crucially ambiguous and unclear on …

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 …

I profile here a prospective method for assessing nature of science (NOS) knowledge, as an
alternative to VNOS and similar approaches. Questions about cases in contemporary news …

Recent arguments in science education have proposed that school science should pay
more attention to teaching the nature of science and its social practices. However, unlike the …

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 …

In this quantitative study, we compare the efficacy of Level 2, guided inquiry–based
instruction to more traditional, verification laboratory instruction in supporting student …

This study (a) assessed the influence of three history of science (HOS) courses on college
students' and preservice science teachers' conceptions of nature of science (NOS),(b) …