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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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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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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The main purpose of the present study was to investigate the historical content in high school science textbooks in Iran to determine what image of...
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Reconceptualized Family Resemblance Approach to the Nature of Science in Middle-School Science Textbooks from Brazil and South Korea Regarding Environmental Issues
This study analyzes the elements of the nature of science (NOS) with respect to environmental issues in middle-school science textbooks, covering...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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An Analysis of Comprehension Strategies and Visuals Within Grade 6–8 Science Textbooks in the United States
This study analyzed the comprehension strategies and visuals in two science textbook series for grades 6, 7, and 8 as means of better understanding a...
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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...
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Representations of the Nature of Science in South African Physical Sciences Textbooks on Electricity and Magnetism
Develo** students’ understanding of and about science is an important educational goal. Learning the nature of science (NOS) has been recognized as...
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History of Science in Two Recent Versions of High School Physics Textbooks in China
The history of science has a unique value to teaching, and textbooks play an important role in permeating the history of science in science courses....
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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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Identifying and Challenging the Narrow Cognitive Demands of Science Textbooks
Textbooks can act as filters and conduits between educational policies and classroom teaching. This research analyzes the cognitive demands of...
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Teachers’ perceptions and experience of the new dimensions of the revised science textbooks at primary level schools in Quetta city of Pakistan
With the speedy explosion of knowledge and rapidly shifting trends, develo** countries constantly introduce reforms in curriculum and textbooks...
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Distribution of Visual Representations Across Scientific Genres in Secondary Science Textbooks: Analysing Multimodal Genre Pattern of Verbal-Visual Texts
There is currently a lack of systematic study examining the integration of verbal-visual elements in science textbooks. In particular, few research...
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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...
