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标题：Examining science teacher’s understandings of the NOS aspects through the use of knowledge test and open-ended questions
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作者：Mustafa Serdar Koksal ; Jale Cakiroglu
期刊名称：Science Education International
印刷版ISSN：1450-104X
电子版ISSN：2077-2327
出版年度：2010
卷号：21
期号：3
出版社：International Council of Associations for Science Education (ICASE)
摘要：The nature of science aspects (NOS) are the most emphasized theme in many curriculum and reform attempts. Teachers as a curriculum implementer in the classroom play important role for policy, arrangements and classroom experiences on NOS understandings of students. Researchers generally assessed the teachers’ NOS conceptions using open-ended questions plus interview in limited samples. However, in the literature, there have been some critics on this way of assessment. For that reason, this study aims to assess elementary science teachers’ (N=47) NOS conceptions by using “Open-ended questions” and “Knowledge test”. The results showed existence of some misunderstandings on NOS and the participants’ responses to knowledge test and open-ended questions gave similar pattern in terms of ten aspects of NOS, except for three aspects
关键词：Elementary Science Teachers; Nature of Science; Assessment of;NOS