Teaching students ?ideas-about-science?: Five dimensions of effective practice

In this paper, we report work undertaken with a group of 11 UK teachers over a period of a year to teach aspects of the nature of science, its process, and its practices. The teachers, who taught science in a mix of elementary, junior high, and high schools, were asked to teach a set of “ideas‐about‐scienc” for which consensual support had been established using a Delphi study in the first phase of the project. Data were collected through field...