@misc{10481/77225,
year = {2001},
month = {12},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10481/77225},
abstract = {This paper presents findings about the images of science drawn upon in laboratory work, by upper
secondary and university students, in academic streams with a science focus. Data were collected
through four written questions, administered to a total of 368 students. The questions all required
students to comment on laboratory investigations carried out by research scientists or by science
students. We show that students’ reasoning has an epistemological and an ontological dimension,
and that it often differs significantly from accepted perspectives on the nature of science. The issue
for teaching appears to be showing students what counts (and what does not count) as appropriate
reasoning in actual situations. In other words, explicit teaching about the various relationships that
can exist between theory and data would transform labwork towards a more critical process that
involves making and justifying decisions.},
publisher = {Kluwers Academic Pubhishers},
keywords = {Science image},
keywords = {Laboratory work},
title = {Images of Science Linked to Labwork: A Survey of Secondary School and University Students},
author = {Séré, Marie Geneviève and Fernández González, Manuel and Gallegos, José A. and González García, Francisco and De Manuel Torres, Esteban and Perales Palacios, Francisco Javier and Leach, John},
}