Uncovering the Middle School Students’ Reasonings About Multiple-Response Nature of Scientific Questions through an SSI-based Education

Authors : Ayşe Nur Keskin, Ahmet Kılınç

Pages : 427-464

Doi:10.17522/balikesirnef.1640645

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Publication Date : 2025-12-29

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The purpose of the present research was to find the response to the research question, ‘What is the nature of middle school students’ reasonings about multiple response nature of scientific questions through an SSI-based education?’. We uncovered the development of these reasonings through an SSI-based education where the students encountered context-based instructional activities such as open-ended inquiries, experiments, moral argumentations. For this purpose, we uncovered 15 5th grade and 24 8th grade students’ reasonings about the multiple response nature of scientific questions using specifically designed Vignettes. In the data analysis, we thematically grouped the students’ reasonings using content analysis procedures. The results showed that students used either phantasy-based or data-based reasoning about the multiple response nature of scientific questions. In addition, we noticed that students used a range of sub-reasoning types (e.g., problematic induction, excessive imagination, best argument epistemology, conditional relativity, etc.) under these two main reasonings. These reasoning types could be used as a rubric for understanding students’ perspectives regarding NOS within SSI contexts.
Keywords : bilimin doğası, bilimsel soruların çok yanıtlı doğası, ortaokul öğrencileri, sosyobilimsel konu temelli eğitim.

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