Young science journalism: writing popular scientific articles may contribute to an increase of high-school students’ interest in the natural sciences
| Autor: | Uwe K. Simon, Annelies Hotter, Nicole Larcher, Helga Kulac, Hanna Steindl |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Semi-structured interview
Multimethodology 05 social sciences Exploratory research 050301 education 050105 experimental psychology Education Likert scale Pedagogy ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION Mathematics education Science communication 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Journalism Sociology 0503 education Competence (human resources) Science journalism |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Science Education. 38:814-841 |
| ISSN: | 1464-5289 0950-0693 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09500693.2016.1173260 |
| Popis: | Far too few high-school students choose subjects from the natural sciences (NaSc) for their majors in many countries. Even fewer study biology, chemistry or physics at university. Those, that do, often lack training to present and discuss scientific results and ideas in texts. To meet these challenges the center for didactics of biology of Graz University has set up the program Young Science Journalism. This new workshop-based interdisciplinary concept was tested in an exploratory study with grade 10 students of one Austrian high school, engaging both the biology and the German teacher of the class. It was our aim to raise students’ interest in the NaSc by encouraging them to write popular scientific articles about self-chosen topics, and to help them improve their writing competence. In this paper we focus on interest development through writing. Results from this pilot study were promising. Using a mixed-method approach (comparing pre- and post-test questionnaires and semi-structured interviews ... |
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