Angel Vazquez

Angel Vazquez
University of the Balearic Islands | UIB · Institut of Educational Research and Innovation

Ph. D. in Education
Researchers, secondary headmasters and, teachers are invited to join our project the relevance of science education.

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Introduction
Science education, STS oriented, Nature of science, Cognitive Skills, Attitudes to science, Educational and Research Assessment and Evaluation, ...
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September 1986 - present
Consejería de Educación
Position
  • Educational Inspector
September 1982 - present
University of the Balearic Islands
Position
  • Researcher and Associate Teacher

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Publications (270)
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Critical thinking (CRT) skills transversally pervade education and nature of science (NOS) knowledge is a key component of science literacy. Some science education researchers advocate that CRT skills and NOS knowledge have a mutual impact and relationship. However, few research studies have undertaken the empirical confirmation of this relationshi...
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A comprehensive current educational innovation aims to teach 21st-century skills, which invariably include critical thinking (CT). The implementation of CT requires some mastery of its constituent abilities and also holding the dispositions and attitudes that are necessary for its adequate enactment. The literature on CT attitude measurement uses o...
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El conocimiento epistémico (CE) o naturaleza de la ciencia es reconocido en didáctica de la ciencia como un componente esencial de la alfabetización científica, necesaria para vivir en un mundo sostenible y empapado de ciencia y tecnología. Enseñar y aprender CE es difícil por su naturaleza meta-cognitiva, y especialmente en educación primaria; est...
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Este trabalho apresenta os resultados de uma investigação realizada com graduandos do curso de Ciências Biológicas (Licenciatura) da Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei / Brasil. Como metodologia, ajustou-se a um desenho de pré-teste e pós-teste com os grupos controle e experimental e uma intervenção didática com o grupo experimental. Como ins...
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INTRODUCCIÓN. Aprender cómo funciona la comunidad científica para validar conocimientos es un componente esencial de la alfabetización científica que no se enseña adecuadamente por su complejidad cognitiva, la carencia de recursos didácticos y la insuficiente atención a estos temas en la formación del profesorado. El objetivo es innovar la formació...
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Na abordagem ciência, tecnologia e sociedade (CTS) para a educação espera-se que os estudantes alcancem conhecimentos básicos e úteis sobre ciência e tecnologia para que sejam capazes de se posicionar de maneira fundamentada e crítica diante de processos decisórios da sociedade. A pesquisa relatada neste trabalho integra o Projeto Ibero-americano d...
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An interdisciplinary approach to science education through history of art is proposed. The approach is innovative, as the artworks complement the history, philosophy and sociology of science contents to increase students’interest and motivation. The approach integrates humanities and science education through history of art, which requests interdis...
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La ley española de educación (2006) introdujo las competencias clave como elementos del currículo escolar; su diseño innovador, pero excesivamente genérico y abierto, estancó el desarrollo del currículo basado en competencias y, especialmente, la evaluación competencial; estas dificultades han motivado desatención a la orientación competencial en l...
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El pensamiento creativo es una habilidad de los seres humanos que se puede desarrollar a través de la educación con material de aprendizaje y enseñanza apropiados. El pensamiento creativo es clave para adaptarse a unas condiciones de vida que cambian rápidamente y para producir soluciones creativas a todo tipo de los problemas de toda clase, y espe...
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Este artículo de investigación indaga por los efectos de la temática socioambiental en el desarrollo habilidades de pensamiento crítico en el futuro profesorado de primaria, a través del enfoque CTSA. Con un diseño cuasiexperimental pretest/postest, se utilizaron dos tipos de instrumentos: un instrumento de intervención didáctica que consistió en s...
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Los estudios sobre pensamiento crítico se han centrado y preocupado más por crear programas de enseñanza que evaluar el impacto de los programas y, por ello, este artículo de investigación plantea la evaluación de las destrezas de pensamiento de estudiantes españoles al final de la educación secundaria (15-16 años), su relación con las calificacion...
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Durante la pandemia del coronavirus COVID19 todos los niños han tenido una experiencia común que ha alterado sus vidas drásticamente, en lugar de ir al colegio han tenido que quedarse en su casa. Además, han escuchado insistentemente un mensaje diario: hay que lavarse las manos con frecuencia para evitar contagiarse (y enfermar) y contagiar a otros...
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Introducción Durante la pandemia del coronavirus COVID19 todos los niños han tenido una experiencia común que ha alterado sus vidas drásticamente, en lugar de ir al colegio han tenido que quedarse en su casa. Además, han escuchado insistentemente un mensaje diario: hay que lavarse las manos con frecuencia para evitar contagiarse (y enfermar) y cont...
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Durante la pandemia del coronavirus COVID19 todos los niños han tenido una experiencia común que ha alterado sus vidas drásticamente, en lugar de ir al colegio han tenido que quedarse en su casa. Además, han escuchado insistentemente un mensaje diario: hay que lavarse las manos con frecuencia para evitar contagiarse (y enfermar) y contagiar a otros...
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In recent years, the penetrating social influence of digital media popularizes teaching methodologies, proposals and recipes, which, in many cases, lack academic credentials to justify its validity, or even, have already been refuted by the scientific community, becoming in mere educational hoaxes. Given this current reality, this research article...
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En los últimos años, la penetrante influencia social de los medios digitalespopulariza metodologías, propuestas y recetas de enseñanza, que, en muchoscasos, carecen de credenciales académicas para justificar su validez, o incluso,han sido refutadas ya por la comunidad científica, convirtiéndose en merosbulos educativos. Ante esta realidad actual, e...
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The 21st century has witnessed, as had previous centuries. so many great scientific developments and technological innovations. Through technology, the amount of digital and information explosion is likely to increase in the future. It is important to teach students how to think critically and scientifically in order to continue the fascinating sci...
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Resumo Investigamos o repertório de conhecimentos sobre as concepções de estudantes da Educação Básica sobre a tríade Ciência-Tecnologia-Sociedade e suas inter-relações. Como forma de coleta de dados, utilizou-se o Questionário de Opiniões sobre Ciência, Tecnologia e Sociedade (QOCTS), um modelo de respostas múltiplas para obter uma avaliação das c...
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Los investigadores en didáctica de la ciencia coinciden en que los meta-conocimientos acerca de la ciencia o naturaleza de la ciencia (NdC) son un componente constitutivo y relevante de la alfabetización científica para todos. Este acuerdo básico contrasta con la importante controversia acerca de los contenidos más apropiados para representar NdC e...
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span>El investigador australiano en didáctica de la ciencia Peter Fensham ha escrito recientemente que hoy día el principal problema de la enseñanza y aprendizaje de la ciencia es la falta de interés de los estudiantes, y cuya solución requiere una especial y vigorosa atención a los aspectos actitudinales, afectivos y emocionales del currículo de c...
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span>El libro Los intereses curriculares en ciencia y tecnología de los estudiantes de secundaria aborda la atención a los intereses de los estudiantes en el desarrollo del currículo de ciencia y tecnología, desde una perspectiva empírica, valorando el grado de interés que merece a los estudiantes una amplia lista de temas de ciencia y tecnología....
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span>La relevancia de la educación científica presenta los resultados obtenidos de la aplicación de un estudio comparativo internacional homónimo en una muestra de estudiantes de las Islas Baleares, para identificar los factores actitudinales que resultan cruciales para innovar el aprendizaje de la ciencia (y tecnología) en la educación obligatoria...
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An interdisciplinary approach for teaching science based on the history of science and history of art is proposed. The approach is innovative, as it traces the history of science for learning, and is complemented by products of art, whose accessibility and understanding amplify the attraction and motivation for students. As history and art are also...
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Resumen: Los temas de naturaleza de ciencia y tecnología (NdCyT) constituyen el componente innovador de la alfabetización científica para todos, que la investigación didáctica proclama como objetivo principal de la educación científica. Algunas investigaciones indican que la enseñanza de estos temas es relegada por la influencia de una serie de fac...
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This paper reflects on the huge expansion of science education research in recent years, at the expense of its increasingly interdisciplinary. The expansion involved the addition of multiple nomad concepts (thesis of conceptual migration), which have extended the traditional disciplinary matrix towards a more and more interdisciplinary one. The dat...
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The themes of nature of science (NoS) and technology are the innovative component of scientific and technological literacy for all citizens, which is advocated from the research as the main aim for science education. Some research also points out that the teaching of NoS issues is often relegated due to a set of factors, such as the inaccurate curr...
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La naturaleza del conocimiento cientifico y tecnologico constituye un componente esencial de la alfabetizacion en ciencias o de la competencia cientifica, y por eso sus contenidos innovadores se estan incorporando a los curriculos de ciencias actuales. La ensenanza de esos contenidos afronta importantes dificultades, la mas notoria de las cuales es...
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Este estudio plantea la formación del profesorado de ciencias en los temas innovadores de naturaleza de la ciencia y la tecnología (NdCyT), que se consideran claves para la alfabetización científica de todos. NdCyT se refiere a los temas de historia, filosofía y sociología de CyT que informan acerca de cómo CyT validan sus conocimientos y sus práct...
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This study examines the effectiveness of a teaching–learning sequence (TLS) to improve the understanding of the influences and interactions between a technology (mining) and society. The aim of the study is also to show the possibility of both teaching and assessing the most innovative issues and aspects of scientific competence and their impact on...
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Abstract: This paper presents the students’ evaluation of their first-year experiences in a higher education career in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in six Latin countries. The aim is to provide evidence-based data about the importance of the influencing factors on the retention of higher education STEM courses. The studen...
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This study applies a new quantitative methodological approach to diagnose epistemology conceptions in a large sample. The analyses use seven multiple-rating items on the epistemology of science drawn from the item pool Views on Science-Technology-Society (VOSTS). The bases of the new methodological diagnostic approach are the empirical psychometric...
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This study raises the training of science teachers on the innovative themes of nature of science and technology (NoST), which are deemed key to scientific literacy for all. NoST relates to issues of history, philosophy and sociology of science and technology reporting about how S&T validate their knowledge and practices and how they work in today's...
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Esta investigação envolveu problemas relacionados ao ensinar com qualidade temas da Natureza da Ciência e Tecnologia (NdC&T) relacionados com validação do seu conhecimento e como funciona no mundo atual. O objetivo foi mostrar a possibilidade de ensinar e avaliar questões e aspectos inovadores da compreensão da NdC&T a partir de uma intervenção did...
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This study reviews the core concepts that research in science education advocates today to achieve quality teaching and learning of science, and therefore the concepts as evidences that should inspire the initial training of science teachers through the master studies. Thus, the concepts of scientific and technological literacy, key competencies, p...
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This paper addresses the international challenge of young people's declining rates (lower for women) to pursue a higher education career in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), though very nuanced depending on the country. The aim is to provide evidence-based data to understand the challenge for men and women, and consequently,...
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In the last decades, a great amount of research has advocated innovating science education through teaching contents of the history, sociology, and philosophy of science in order for the students to get a reliable image of science, significant and relevant learning experiences, and higher interest and engagement in science. Given the embeddedness o...
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Teachers' educational beliefs are important because beliefs influence and guide teaching behavior and decisions within classrooms. In the case of science education, the role of beliefs is much more demanding, as science consists of a vast array of knowledge components (facts, laws and theories), but also an innovative and interdisciplinary set of h...
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This study assesses teachers’ understanding of the science-technology-society (STS) and nature of science (NOS) issues in a large sample of secondary and high-school science teachers, encompassing preservice and in-service teachers. The teachers anonymously answered 15 pencil-and-paper items, whose responses were scaled through a new procedure into...
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This study investigates the effectiveness of a teaching-learning sequence on mining to improve understanding of the influences and interactions between a technology (mining) and society, also known as interactions between science, technology and society and nature of science. The aim of the study is to show the possibility of teaching and assessing...
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Spanish students' beliefs on themes of Science-Technology-Society (STS) and nature of science (NOS) are assessed. The sample consisted of 1050 science and non-science students who had concluded their pre-university education (18-19 years old). Each participant anonymously answered 30 items drawn from the Questionnaire of Opinions on Science, Techno...
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p>La enseñanza de la naturaleza de la ciencia es capital para la alfabetización científica y tecnológica, pero la formación del profesorado es deficiente por la carencia del conocimiento didáctico del contenido (CDC) sobre temas de NdCyT. Este artículo afronta el desarrollo del CDC a través de la autoformación desarrollada por un docente, describie...
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Application of the concept mapping technique to the study of a case of biology in context: taking a physical exercise in which most of the human physiological systems are involved. The physical exercise is used as a motivation activity. From these results, the teacher conducts a class discussion, organized in work teams, which will lead students, u...
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Una red internacional iberoamericana diseña y realiza cooperativamente un plan de investigación que se centra en construir materiales de enseñanza y evaluación y los aplica a estudiantes en aulas reales con base en dos plataformas informáticas. Se presentan las bases didácticas del diseño de materiales y la documentación de la investigación así com...
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This paper analyzes the results obtained from the implementation of a teaching-learning sequence (SEA), "Investigating Dragons" about some epistemological concepts (hipothesis-law-theory) in a group of students of Secondary Education (ESO). The results were made through the analysis of students' answers to some questions of the Questionnaire of Opi...
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Nature of science teaching is essential for scientific and technological literacy, but teacher training is poor due to the lack of pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) of topics on the nature of science and technology (NS&T). This article addresses the development of the PCK through the self-training of a teacher, by describing the process of curric...
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The paper addresses the initial training of science teachers on the about the nature of science (NOS) topics, that is to say, issues about how science and technology (S&T) validate their knowledge and practices, and how they work in today's world. A case analysis of a male Chemistry-graduate, who is enrolled in his initial training to become high-s...
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This study analyzes the beliefs about science-technology-society, and other Nature of Science (NOS) themes, of a large sample (613) of Spanish pre- and in-service secondary education teachers through their responses to 30 items of the Questionnaire of Opinions on Science, Technology and Society. The data were processed by means of a multiple respon...
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This paper describes Spanish science teachers’ thinking about issues concerning the nature of science (NOS) and the relationships connecting science, technology, and society (STS). The sample consisted of 774 in-service and pre-service teachers. The participants responded to a selection of items from the Questionnaire of Opinions on Science, Techno...
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Esse artigo traz um levantamento e faz uma análise de tendências das pesquisas publicadas na “Revista Electrónica de Enseñanza de Las Ciencias”. Através da análise sistemática dos resumos publicados no período de 2009 a 2011, utilizou-se, como referencial metodológico o fichamento de 106 resumos, seguindo como diretrizes algumas premissas extraídas...
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The paper presents two cooperative research projects developed by several institutions in a set of countries (European and American) with iberian languages between 2005 and 2013, a period that includes the processes of preparation to request them, and the date of completion of the second of these, currently under development. Although both were pla...
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Las prácticas restaurativas son un conjunto de técnicas y actitudes de mejora de la convivencia con el fin de crear y reforzar las relaciones positivas y los vínculos afectivos, favorecer la prevención, gestión y resolución dialogada de conflictos, así como posibilitar la restauración de la convivencia con la colaboración de todas las partes afecta...
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Esta propuesta describe una investigación que afronta el problema educativo de enseñar con calidad CTS o la naturaleza de la ciencia y la tecnología, es decir, las cuestiones acerca de como la ciencia y la tecnología (CyT) validan su conocimiento y como funcionan en el mundo actual. El proyecto integra un equipo internacional iberoamericano amplio...
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This paper aims to perform a review of present literature with regard to: a) main difficulties and theoretical positioning for teaching Nature of Science (NOS), and b) empirical evidences provided by researches performed in the present decade about students' understanding of NOS. All this is done in order to surmise some future perspectives from th...
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investigación didáctica Resumen. En este artículo se hace una revisión de las aportaciones de la literatura actual en relación con: a) las principales dificultades y posicio-namientos teóricos a la hora de plantear la enseñanza de la naturaleza de la ciencia (NdC), y b) la evidencia empírica proporcionada por investi-gaciones, realizadas en la pres...
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Este trabalho apresenta resultados obtidos de acordo com a avaliação das atitudes em relação à aprendizagem da ciência, a partir de estudantes pré-universitários, em início e fim da universidade e professores, todos vinculados ao cefet/rj. Trata-se de uma questão do projeto piearcts que aborda a existência de duas culturas – ciências e humanas –, o...
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Resumen. En este artículo se hace una revisión reflexiva de la literatura reciente, publicada en la última década, acerca de la comprensión de los profesores de ciencias sobre la naturaleza de la ciencia (NdC) y su enseñanza. Se analizan aquellos factores y estrategias que favorecen dicha comprensión, así como los principales obstáculos que interfi...
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The literature about teachers' understanding and teaching of nature of science (NOS), which has been published in the last decade, is reviewed. The factors and the strategies that favor NOS understanding as well as the obstacles that interfere its teaching are analyzed. From the current state of art on these issues, a prospective for future is anal...
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los profesores de ciencias sobre la naturaleza de la ciencia (NdC) y su enseñanza. Se analizan aquellos factores y estrategias que favorecen dicha comprensión, así como los principales obstáculos que interfieren en la enseñanza de los contenidos sobre NdC. A la luz del estado de la cuestión se analizan y discuten las posibles perspectivas de futuro...
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Este estudio presenta una revisi?n de los contenidos para la ense?anza de la llamada "naturaleza de la ciencia" (y tecnolog?a) desde las diversas aportaciones de la investigaci?n did?ctica especializada sobre estas cuestiones. La visi?n que se presenta aqu? est? relacionada con y es dependiente de diversos conceptos modernos, tales como la situaci?...
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The authors have participated in the Iberian-American Evaluation Project on Science, Technology and Society Attitudes (Spanish acronym, piearcts), and have delivered their results (Garritz, Rueda y Robles, 2011) to the Iberian-American States Organization (Spanish acronym, oei). We have decided to give an extended diffusion to these results by incl...
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The authors have participated in the Iberian-American Evaluation Project on Science, Technology and Society Attitudes (Spanish acronym, piearcts), and have delivered their results (Garritz, Rueda y Robles, 2011) to the Iberian-American States Organization (Spanish acronym, oei). We have decided to give an extended diffusion to these results by incl...
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An empirical analysis of the deterioration of the science related attitudes across students' age and sex is presented. The attitudinal factors embrace a group of variables on the image of science, environmental preservation and some aspects of school science and have been analyzed in a sample of students across several ages starting at the fourth g...
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www.oei.es/salactsi/DOCUMENTO5vf.pdf La alfabetización en ciencia y tecnología es hoy uno de los objetivos básicos y prioritarios de una educación inclusiva y para todos. Esta alfabetización orienta los currículos de ciencia y tecnología hacia la presentación de sus objetivos y contenidos en contextos útiles para todos los estudiantes como ciudadan...
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Científicos, educadores y organizaciones internacionales de educación en ciencias coinciden en señalar como indicador y objetivo esencial de la alfabetización en ciencia y tecnología (CyT) que todos los estudiantes desarrollen concepciones informadas y apropiadas sobre la naturaleza de la CyT. Estas concepciones incluyen la epistemología de la CyT...
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The young students� thinking about the nature of science and technology and its relationships with society is studied across a representative sample encompassing scientific and humanities specialties. The participants completed 15 questions of the Questionnaire of Opinions on Science, Technology and Society whose answers are analyzed by means of th...
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Un tópico ampliamente extendido considera que las calificaciones académicas miden algún tipo de dominio o maestría en la materia a que se refieren. Sin embargo, cada nuevo curso, los profesores de ciencias experimentan frecuentemente la sensación de que sus nuevos alumnos no han alcanzado los mínimos de aprendizaje correspondientes a los cursos inf...
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Attitudinal factors influencing the scientific and technological vocation of boys and girls who finish compulsory secondary education are empirically analysed across sex and type of education (coeducation, same-sex). The factors employed in the analyses were extracted by means of a principal component analysis from a wide array of attitudinal varia...
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Este estudio presenta un análisis empírico acerca del desarrollo de la vocación científica y tecnológica de alumnos adolescentes que acaban la educación obligatoria mediante un modelo de regresión lineal, que identifica predictores específicos a partir de un conjunto amplio de variables actitudinales relacionadas con la ciencia y la tecnología (ima...
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La relevancia de la educación científica (ROSE) es un programa internacional de investigación comparativa basado en un cuestionario que explora los factores afectivos de la educación científica desde la perspectiva de los que aprenden. El proyecto pretende conocer las opiniones y percepciones que constituyan condiciones relevantes y necesarias para...