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Dec 21, 2020 · At the Summit of the G7 Science Academies (2019), recommendations were made on implementing educational activities intended to increase confidence in science, stating, “Although confidence in science remains high, there are serious and rapidly changing challenges. In particular, policy makers and scientists must contend with misinformation that is now easily spread on the Internet.”
- J Feine, N Jakubovics
- 2021
Sep 30, 2017 · Early Science Education Is Suffering a Crisis of Confidence—That’s a Big Problem Early childhood science education can have significant positive effects on the achievement gap and on students ...
- Teodora Zareva
Apr 23, 2022 · Efforts to improve public confidence in the scientific community should probably focus on science education (including better explaining the process of science and explaining the distinction between science for production and impact science), better communication with the media (Slovic 2000), strengthening local, national, and international organizations that play important roles in oversight ...
Oct 16, 2023 · Public confidence in science has declined sharply in recent years, with only 69 percent of Americans in May 2023 expressing confidence in scientists to act in the public’s best interest ...
- Program-Based Studies
- Controlled Studies
- Correlational Studies
- Theoretical Issues Based on Cognitive Load Theory
- Summary of The Three Research Paradigms
Integrating scientific investigation steps into science teaching has been the focus of science educational reforms for decades. As we have already noted, the 1996 NRC NSES promoted an inquiry-based approach to science teaching and claimed that “engaging students in inquiry helps students develop understanding of scientific concepts, an appreciation...
Controlled studies use comparison groups and design intervention units that alter only one target factor at a time to examine the effectiveness of an instructional procedure over alternatives. This type of study commonly uses random assignment to ensure equivalent groups (within the bounds of probability) as opposed to matching. Because this type o...
Recently, correlational studies also have joined the conversation and started to examine procedures that emphasized teaching science through investigations. Most of these studies draw from large international data sets and use statistical techniques to look for correlations between specific instructional elements and students’ learning outcomes. Th...
In contrast to inquiry-based approaches, the explicit, structured approaches to instruction have strong, cognitively based theories underpinning them that are effective for generating predictions about learning gains and then explaining how and why these gains occurred. Cognitive load theory (Sweller et al., 2011, 2019) is one such theory and those...
In brief, we have summarized three contrasting ways researchers have used to deal with the same issue—teaching science through inquiry—or exploration-based investigations. The three categories demonstrate that different forms of educational research appear to generate very different findings and conclusions that vary from supporting inquiry as an o...
- Lin Zhang, Paul A. Kirschner, Paul A. Kirschner, William W. Cobern, John Sweller
- 2021
Science in the Spotlight: A Crisis of Confidence? JDR Clin Trans Res. 2021 Jan;6 (1):4-7. doi: 10.1177/2380084420976358.
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Jan 9, 2023 · We live in a world marked by a crisis that we understand, from post-colonial literature, as a crisis of the knowledge model that underpins Western Modernity. Therefore, science education which deals with the study of the production of scientific knowledge needs to be attentive to this question. We argue that the challenges imposed by the crisis require a cultural–historical perspective of ...
