Advancing Reflective judgment through Socioscientific Issues

作者：Zeidler Dana L^*; Sadler Troy D; Applebaum Scott; Callahan Brendan E

来源：Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2009, 46(1): 74-101.

DOI：10.1002/tea.20281

• Socioscientific Issues
• reflective judgement
• epistemology
• nature of science
• ethical issues

The purpose of this investigation was to explore possible relationships between Socioscientific Issues instruction and students' development of reflective judgement. The useful of the Reflective Judgment Model as a tool for assessing the value of SSI is established in the parallels that can be drawn between them. Both involve ill-structured problems requiring evidence-based reasoning subject to differing interpretations by students, and both require examination, analysis and the blending of scientific and normative evidence, as students use that evidence to support a reasoned position. Results demonstrated both qualitative evidence revealing more sophisticated and nuanced epistemological stances toward higher stages of reflective judgement, as well as statistically significant gains within treatment groups with a moderately large effect size. Theoretical implications for advancing students' epistemological beliefs about evidence-based argumentation and pedagogical implications for rethinking how to connect science with topics that are fundamentally meaningful to students are discussed.

• 出版日期2009-1