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The effect of innovative instructions on pre-service science teachers’ conception about the nature of science: a scientific investigation
Lim, Beh Kian1.
Learning science without having a correct conception of the nature of
science is a flaw in science education that warrants concern, all the
more if science teachers teaching science have misconceptions about
the nature of science. This paper is based on an action research carried
out during Nature of Science (NOS)(SCE500) course for 56 pre-service
science teachers in a science education programme. The study focuses
on the learning outcomes on aspects of NOS that have been reported as
common misconceptions among science learners. It specifically looks into
the results of three aspects that are related to scientific investigation, i.e.
its role, its demands on imagination and its process. The results show that
after attending innovative lessons for a semester, the misconceptions of the
pre-service science teachers regarding three aspects of NOS: experiments
in science confirm scientific ideas, scientists use their imagination at the
early stage of investigation only, and hypothesis-experiment-conclusion is a
scientific method used by all scientists have reduced significantly.The paper
also highlights in brief the innovative and creative elements pertaining to a
variety of approaches used in the set induction of every class session based
on the consensus mode of the Nature of Science. The paper concludes with
the feedback on the course by the pre-service teachers.
Affiliation:
- Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
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