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The Effects Of Emotive Reasoning On Secondary School Students' Decision-Making In The Context Of Socioscientific Issues, Wardell Anthony Powell
The Effects Of Emotive Reasoning On Secondary School Students' Decision-Making In The Context Of Socioscientific Issues, Wardell Anthony Powell
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The discrepancy between what students are being taught within K-12 science classrooms and what they experience in the real world has been well documented. This study sought to explore the ways a high school biology curriculum, which integrates socioscientific issues, impacts students' emotive reasoning and their ability to evaluate evidence, make informed decisions on contemporary scientific dilemmas, and integrate scientific content knowledge in their reasoning on SSI. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were used to examine differences within and between an SSI treatment group and a comparison group as well as individual differences among students' responses over a semester of …