Pre-service Science Teachers' Decisions and Types of Informal Reasoning about the Socioscientific Issue of Nuclear Power Plants

Yapıcıoğlu, Ayşegül Evren; Aycan, Şule

doi:10.29329/epasr.2018.137.2

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“…The code 'alternative energy sources' might encourage participants to re-think our consumption habits. Hence, people could think about evidence and content knowledge (e.g., Flener-Lovitt, 2014;Yapıcıoğlu & Aycan, 2018;Karpudewan & Roth, 2016) by weighing and leveraging dimensions of SSI such as economic, environmental, health, social and ethics (Price et al, 2014).…”

Section: Thematic Codes For the Research Papersmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Systematic Review of the Research Papers on Chemistry-Focused Socio-Scientific Issues

Çalık

Wiyarsi

2021

JBSE

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Although chemistry-focused socio-scientific issues support the ‘relevance’ model of chemistry education, the related literature has lacked any systematic review handling them together. For this reason, this research aimed to thematically synthesize the research papers on chemistry-focused socio scientific issues (SSI) from 2008 to 2020 and inferentially evaluate them in terms of the relevance model of chemistry education. After searching international and national well-known databases through relevant keyword patterns (e.g., Pattern 1: socio-scientific issues and chemistry education), 65 research papers were apparent for the systematic review. Then, the authors generated primary and secondary codes for the research papers and then inferentially marked their ‘relevance’ components. The systematic review indicated variation of research areas (e.g., relevance model of chemistry education) and dominant research foci for different themes (e.g., competencies and related variables for the theme ‘aims’; pollution, energy, industry and fabrication-based problems for the theme ‘SSI’; organic compounds for the theme ‘chemistry concepts’). Further, it revealed that the research papers on chemistry-focused SSI had some shortcomings at handling all components of the relevance model in a balanced way. The current research suggests professionally training teachers about how to integrate chemistry-focused SSI and the relevance model into school chemistry. Keywords: chemistry education, relevance model, socio-scientific issues, systematic review

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confidence: 99%

A Systematic Review of the Research Papers on Chemistry-Focused Socio-Scientific Issues

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Wiyarsi

2021

JBSE

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“…There are researchers that take into consideration the related attitude and point of views of the pre-service science teachers (e.g. Ates & Saracoğlu, 2013;Cansız & Cansız, 2015;Ercan, Ural & Tekbıyık, 2015;Eş, Işık Mercan & Ayas, 2016;Evren Yapıcıoğlu & Aycan, 2018;Kapici & Ilhan, 2016;Özdemir & Çobanoğlu, 2008;Özdemir, 2014;Yener, Aksüt & Somuncu Demir, 2017), teachers (Kenar, 2013;Lee & Yang, 2013) and students (Jho et al, 2014;Wu & Tsai, 2007;Yang & Anderson, 2003) towards nuclear power plants. A limited number of research was conducted with teachers (Kenar, 2013;Lee & Yang, 2013).…”

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Examining Science Teachers’ Decisions about Nuclear Power Plants from the Perspective of Normative Decision Theory

Öztürk

Altan

2019

Journal of Education in Science, Environment and Health

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“…In teaching SSIs, many studies are focused on argumentation (Capkinoglu et al, 2020;Dawson & Carson, 2020;Namdar & Shen, 2016), dilemmas (Rydberg et al, 2017), reasoning (Cian, 2020;Karahan & Roehrig, 2017;Ozturk & Yilmaz -Tuzun, 2017), critical thinking (Gul & Akcay, 2020) and decision making strategies (Altmeyer & Dreesmann, 2021;Dauer et al, 2017;Sutter et al, 2019;Yapıcıoğlu & Aycan, 2018). From these studies, Capkinoglu et al (2020) evaluated the 10-week argumentation process of students in their study of local environmental SSIs.…”

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“…Because of their studies, they concluded that the applied model increased the critical thinking tendencies of pre-service teachers. Yapıcıoğlu and Aycan (2018) examined the effects of teaching activities related to nuclear power plants on the decisions, positions and informal reasoning of pre-service teachers. In their study, they concluded that the pre-service teachers had decided that no nuclear power plant should be established.…”

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Examination of the Views of Science Teachers Trained in a Project on Socioscientific Issues

Tekin¹,

Aslan²,

Keleş³

2023

Sci Insights Educ Front

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Socioscientific issues (SSIs) have a scientific basis, have a dilemma in their nature and are often discussed under political and social influences. Teachers perceive SSIs as a difficult subject to teach. This project was carried out to guide teachers in overcoming this difficulty and to enable them to include practices that they can adapt more easily to their lessons. The purpose of the current study is to evaluate the views of science teachers on the teaching of SSIs and the project carried out within the scope of a funding project for teaching SSIs. The study was designed according to a single-group pre-test post-test experimental design. The study group the study comprises teachers from different branches of science (15 middle school science teachers, four biology teachers, three physics teachers and two chemistry teachers) from various provinces of Türkiye. As the data collection tools of the study, the Project Participation Form, the Scale of Views on Teaching Socioscientific Issues, the Know-Want-Learn Form and the Project Evaluation Form were used. Quantitative and qualitative data analysis methods were used together in the evaluation of the data. Because of the study, the implemented project activities contributed to the development of the participants’ views on the teaching of SSIs and caused a positive development in their views on the project. Suggestions were made considering the results of the project so that guidance could be provided for teachers and teacher educators.

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Pre-service Science Teachers' Decisions and Types of Informal Reasoning about the Socioscientific Issue of Nuclear Power Plants

Cited by 12 publications

References 15 publications

A Systematic Review of the Research Papers on Chemistry-Focused Socio-Scientific Issues

A Systematic Review of the Research Papers on Chemistry-Focused Socio-Scientific Issues

Examining Science Teachers’ Decisions about Nuclear Power Plants from the Perspective of Normative Decision Theory

Examination of the Views of Science Teachers Trained in a Project on Socioscientific Issues

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