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Using Text Mining to Identify Teleological Explanations in Physics and Biology Textbooks: An Exploratory Study
Creating and critiquing explanations of phenomena is a significant goal of many scientific disciplines and therefore also a learning goal of science...
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Development of the Representation of the Nature of Science in Textbooks: the Case of High School Biology Textbooks in Mainland China
Integrating the nature of science (NOS) into textbooks is one of the challenges in science curricula. This case study assessed the issue based on a...
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Evaluation of Nature of Science Representations in Biology School Textbooks Based on a Differentiated Family Resemblance Approach
Studies on the quality of nature of science (NOS) representations in school science textbooks report them being mostly of implicit manner and not...
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Representations of Nature of Science in Science Textbooks
This systematic review summarized 42 selected empirical studies on the representations of nature of science (NOS) in science textbooks guided by...
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Five Essential Features of Scientific Inquiry in Bahraini Primary School Science Textbooks and Workbooks
This study analyzed Bahraini primary school science textbooks and workbooks from grades 1 to 6 in terms of their coverage of the five essential...
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Research on the Nature of Science in China’s Current High School Physics Textbooks
In this study, high school physics textbooks published by People’s Education Press (PEP) and Educational Science Publishing House (ESP) (a total of 6...
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Portrayals of Scientists in Science Textbooks of Secondary Schools in Iran: A Qualitative Study in the History of Science
The main purpose of the present study was to investigate the historical content in high school science textbooks in Iran to determine what image of...
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Inquiry Activity Design from Singaporean and Indonesian Physics Textbooks
The purpose of this study was to explore instructional designs for promoting inquiry practices in secondary school textbooks. Three criteria were...
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Science Textbooks: Aids or Obstacles to Inquiry Teaching? Science Teachers’ Experiences in Norwegian Secondary Schools
Textbooks have several important functions in science education. By interviewing six teachers, this study shows how secondary school science teachers...
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Analysis of High School Chemistry Textbooks Used in Iran for Representations of Nature of Science
This report includes the analysis of three chemistry textbooks in high schools in Iran for representation of nature of science (NOS). The analysis...
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Analysis of Physics Textbooks Through the Lens of Inquiry Practices
The purpose of this study is to analyze the learning goals, nature of science, inquiry skills, understanding of inquiry, and inquiry types in the...
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Representation of Changes about Nature of Science in Turkish Middle School Science Textbooks
The purpose of this study is to examine how and in what ways the dimensions of the nature of science are included in the 6th, 7th, and 8th grade...
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The impacts of animal farming: a critical review of secondary and high school textbooks
The exploitation of animals for human purposes raises several ethical concerns in the educational realm that ought to be carefully dealt with....
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Friends or Foes? Microorganisms in Greek School Textbooks
A thorough understanding of microorganisms is considered essential in order for students to understand their importance in biological systems and...
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Exploring the Inclusion of Nature of Science in Turkish Middle School Science Textbooks
Reconceptualized Family Resemblance Approach to Nature of Science (RFN) explains science as a cognitive, epistemic, and social institutional system....
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Methodological? Or Dialectical?: Reflections of Scientific Inquiry in Biology Textbooks
Given the importance of cultivating scientific literate societies, the integration of scientific inquiry into school curriculum is key to...
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Examining Biology Curricular Resources’ Scientific Depictions of Evolution, Race, Sexuality, and Identity
Teaching and learning relies on age-appropriate, credible formal (e.g., textbooks, textbook supplements) and informal (e.g., trade-books) curricular...
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Exploring Logico-Semantic Relations of Historical Gene Models in Similar Genetic Content in Greek Biology School Textbooks
A strand of international research in biology textbook analysis of genetic topics concerns the representations of the gene concept and its functions...
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Examining the Changes in Representations of Nature of Science in Chinese Senior High School Chemistry Textbooks
This paper aimed to examine the changes in the representations of nature of science (NOS) in Chinese senior high school chemistry textbooks under the...