Science Teachers’ Thinking About the Nature of Science: A New Methodological Approach to Its Assessment

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作者：
Ángel Vázquez-Alonso
Antonio García-Carmona
María Antonia Manassero-Mas
Antoni Bennàssar-Roig
机构：
[1] Universidad de las Islas Baleares,Departamento de Pedagogía Aplicada y Psicología de la Educación
[2] Universidad de Sevilla,Departamento de Didáctica de las Ciencias
[3] Universidad de las Islas Baleares,Departamento de Psicología
[4] Universidad de las Islas Baleares,Departamento de Biología
来源：
Research in Science Education | 2013年 / 43卷
关键词：
Science-technology-society (STS); Nature of science (NOS); In-service science teachers; Pre-service science teachers; Assessment of conceptions on NOS.;
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This paper describes Spanish science teachers’ thinking about issues concerning the nature of science (NOS) and the relationships connecting science, technology, and society (STS). The sample consisted of 774 in-service and pre-service teachers. The participants responded to a selection of items from the Questionnaire of Opinions on Science, Technology & Society in a multiple response model. These data were processed to generate the invariant indices that are used as the bases for subsequent quantitative and qualitative analyses. The overall results reflect moderately informed conceptions, and a detailed analysis by items, categories, and positions reveals a range of positive and negative conceptions about the topics of NOS dealt with in the questionnaire items. The implications of the findings for teaching and teacher training on the themes of NOS are discussed.
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