Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences
By Jaina, Jasmine, Limb, Beh Kian & Abdullahc, Nabilah
“Pre-service teachers’ conceptions of the Nature of Science”
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
90
Pp. 203-210
2012
Pre-service teachers’ conceptions of the Nature of Science
Type: Empirical
Data collection method: Interview
Number of subjects, range: Medium — 11-30
Grade and age of subjects: PreK-2nd — 7-8 years of age, Adult — over 18 years
- Experiments in science confirm scientific ideas.
- Scientists use their imagination at the early stage of investigation only.
- Science provides explanations with facts and proof.
- Whatever contents in science text are facts with certainty.
- Theory becomes law with sufficient evidence.
- Hypothesis-experiment-conclusion is the scientific method used by all scientists.
- Same piece of evidence or data cannot be subjected to multiple interpretations.
- Scientists are people with not ‘normal’ human behavior as portrayed in most movies.