Exploring the dynamic interplay of college students' conceptions of the nature of science

dc.creator	Ke-Sheng CHAN
dc.date	2005-12-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-08-12T11:28:34Z
dc.date.available	2015-08-12T11:28:34Z
dc.identifier	1609-4913
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/8442c523396c4701a49b412bc2c4fdda
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/30688
dc.description	This study attempts to determine whether there exists a negative interconnection between the creative and testable nature-of-science (NOS) conceptions in college students' conceptual ecology by investigating, through a pair of IHV-assisted teaching experiments, the effect of raising the status of each NOS conception in students' conceptual ecology on that of the other. 216 Taiwanese college non-science majors enrolled in two separate sections of an introductory general science course were randomly assigned to the two treatment groups of the study. During the 12-week experiments, students in each group were "treated" with a common core curriculum interspersed with a set of Interactive Historical Vignettes (IHVs) that highlight the particular aspect of NOS under investigation. Pretest and posttest measures of students' NOS views were collected by administering the Chinese version of the Nature of Scientific Knowledge Scale before and immediately after the experiments. The dependent t-test was used to evaluate the research hypotheses of both experiments. Results confirm that there is indeed a negative, seesawing-at-a- distance type of interconnection between the creative and testable NOS conceptions in college students' conceptual ecology. The cause for such phenomena remains open to further investigation.
dc.language	English
dc.language	Chinese
dc.publisher	Hong Kong Institute of Education
dc.relation	http://www.ied.edu.hk/apfslt/v6_issue2/chanks/index.htm
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1609-4913
dc.source	Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, Vol 6, Iss 2, p 8 (2005)
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Exploring the dynamic interplay of college students' conceptions of the nature of science
dc.type	article