Upper Primary Students’ Views Vis-à-Vis Scientific Reasoning Progress Levels in Physics

Tsedeke Abate; Kassa Michael; Carl Angell

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Tsedeke Abate ¹ ² ^* , Kassa Michael ¹, Carl Angell ³

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¹ Department of SME, Addis Ababa University, P.O. Box 1176, Addis Ababa, ETHIOPIA² Department of Natural Sciences, Hossana College of Teachers Education, P.O. Box 94, Hossana, ETHIOPIA³ Department of Physics, University of Oslo, NORWAY^* Corresponding Author

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The purpose of this study was to explore grade eight students’ views in terms of different scientific reasoning progress levels. To explore students’ views, phenomenographic study was used. The qualitative analysis of students’ interviews elicited three major themes of students’ views about scientific reasoning progress levels: naïve, mixed, and scientific, along with the underlying ways of reasoning patterns. It was revealed that students think that scientific knowledge is static, fixed, universal, certain, and unchangeable. It is recommended that a need to consider an inquiry-based teaching in combination with the contextualized approach of nature of science in school science curriculum and classroom instruction to promote students’ scientific views on the nature of science and higher scientific reasoning abilities.

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scientific reasoning
students’ view
phenomenographic study
nature of science

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EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed, 2021, Volume 17, Issue 5, Article No: em1958

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Abate T, Michael K, Angell C. Upper Primary Students’ Views Vis-à-Vis Scientific Reasoning Progress Levels in Physics. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2021;17(5), em1958. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/10834

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Abate, T., Michael, K., and Angell, C. (2021). Upper Primary Students’ Views Vis-à-Vis Scientific Reasoning Progress Levels in Physics. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 17(5), em1958. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/10834

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Abate, Tsedeke et al. "Upper Primary Students’ Views Vis-à-Vis Scientific Reasoning Progress Levels in Physics". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, vol. 17, no. 5, 2021, em1958. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/10834