Encouraging students to develop NOS understanding

The authors describe how the daily use of specific reflection questions and concept mapping helped students to improve their understanding of the Nature of Science and provide an example of ... See More

The authors describe how the daily use of specific reflection questions and concept mapping helped students to improve their understanding of the Nature of Science and provide an example of how NOS changed for one student. They ask the reader to generalize if the results seem valid, as they had only 4 participants. However, they provide support for the explicit role of the questions and the concept mapping. They also indirectly indicate that students found these time consuming by the drop-out rate on the study. Regardless, the use of these methods, perhaps in moderation, did lead to improved student understandings.