Browsing Department of Education by Author "Khishfe, Rola"

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A Look into Students’ Retention of Acquired Nature of Science Understandings

Khishfe, Rola (Routledge, 2015)

Having the learning and retention of science content and skills as a goal of scientific literacy, it is significant to study the issue of retention as it relates to teaching and learning about nature of science (NOS). Then, ...
A Reconstructed Vision of Environmental Science Literacy: The case of Qatar

Khishfe, Rola (Routledge, 2014)

The purpose of this study was twofold: (a) develop a conceptual framework for environmental science literacy; and consequently (b) examine the potential of science standards/curricula to prepare environmentally literate ...
Argumentation, critical thinking, nature of science and socioscientific issues: a dialogue between two researchers

Yacoubian, Hagop A.; Khishfe, Rola (Routledge, 2018)

The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast between two theoretical frameworks for addressing nature of science (NOS) and socioscientific issues (SSI) in school science. These frameworks are critical thinking (CT) ...
Connected learning: An approach for teaching nature of science aspects and argumentation components

Khishfe, Rola (John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2023)

The study investigated the influence of a connected learning approach for explicit nature of science (NOS) instruction and explicit argumentation instruction, in comparison with a non-connected approach, on students' NOS ...
Consistency of nature of science views across scientific and socio-scientific contexts

Khishfe, Rola (Routledge, 2017)

The purpose of the investigation was to investigate the consistency of NOS views among high school students across different scientific and socio-scientific contexts. A total of 261 high school students from eight different ...
Explicit Instruction and Student Learning of Argumentation and Nature of Science

Khishfe, Rola (Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2021)

The study investigated how explicit instruction of argumentation-in the context of socioscientific issues (SSI)- and explicit instruction of NOS, compared with explicit instruction of argumentation only, can develop grade ...
Explicit Nature of Science and Argumentation Instruction in the Context of Socioscientific Issues: An effect on student learning and transfer

Khishfe, Rola (Routledge, 2014)

The purpose of the study was two-fold: to (a) investigate the influence of explicit nature of science (NOS) and explicit argumentation instruction in the context of a socioscientific issue on the argumentation skills and ...
Improving Students’ Conceptions of Nature of Science: A Review of the Literature

Khishfe, Rola (Springer Science and Business Media B.V., 2023)

The goal of all reform documents in science education is to target scientific literacy. Toward that end, having students understand the nature of science (NOS) is a critical component. As it turns out, the development of ...
LEBANESE STUDENTS’ CONCEPTIONS OF AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS SCIENCE AND RELATED CAREERS BASED ON THEIR GENDER AND RELIGIOUS AFFILIATIONS

Khishfe, Rola; Boujaoude, Saouma B. (Springer Netherlands, 2016)

Students’ attitudes and conceptions seem to be influenced by social/cultural contexts and interactions with other students from diverse backgrounds. Therefore, educators need to study attitudes, conceptions, and career ...
Nature of Science and Argumentation Instruction in socioscientific and scientific contexts

Khishfe, Rola (Routledge, 2022)

This study investigated the effect of explicit nature of science (NOS) instruction and explicit argumentation instruction in socioscientific and scientific contexts, on students’ NOS conceptions and their argumentation ...
Relationship Between Nature of Science and Argumentation: a Follow-Up Study

Khishfe, Rola (Springer Science and Business Media B.V., 2023)

The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between high school students’ understandings of aspects about nature of science (NOS) and their argumentation skills, particularly whether informed conceptions ...
Retention of acquired argumentation skills and nature of science conceptions

Khishfe, Rola (Routledge, 2020)

The study aimed to investigate the retention of acquired argumentation and NOS conceptions among grade 10 students three months after the treatment. Thirty-six grade 10 students in two intact sections, randomly assigned ...
Students’ understandings of nature of science and their arguments in the context of four socio-scientific issues

Khishfe, Rola; Alshaya, Fahad Suliman; Boujaoude, Saouma B.; Mansour, Nasser S.; Alrudiyan, Khalid I. (Routledge, 2017)

The purpose of this study was to examine students understandings about nature of science (NOS) and their arguments in context of controversial socio-scientific issue (SSI). A total of 74 11th graders in six schools in Saudi ...
The transfer of nature of science understandings: a question of similarity and familiarity of contexts

Khishfe, Rola (Routledge, 2019)

It is important to question the generalizability of the knowledge about the nature of science (NOS), and thus know whether the knowledge about NOS can be transferred to various contexts. As such, the purpose of this study ...

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