An Analysis of the STS education contents included in Integrated Science Textbooks

Science learning has an important role for students to understand natural phenomena with scientific methods. Science learning is taught in an integrated manner and contains literacy in it. Skills in literacy are needed to help students understand learning resources. One type of literacy is scientific literacy. Scientific literacy is the ability to understand or get involved with science issues and ideas around the environment. Scientific literacy consists of four aspects, namely 1) the scientific context, 2) the scientific process, 3) the scientific concept and 4) the scientific attitude. This research is a descriptive research that contains a description of the object under research. The object of this research is the integrated science textbook for grade VIII in junior high school. The instrument used in the form of a questionnaire assessment of integrated science textbooks related to scientific literacy aspects. The results showed that, among the five textbooks researched, the best book reviewed in terms of the scientific context and the scientific process was book D with grades of 78.6 and 78.1, respectively. In terms of scientific concepts, the best integrated science textbooks are books A and D with a value of 82.1. Meanwhile, the integrated science textbook that is good to use is seen from the aspect of scientific attitude is book E with a value of 75. After processing the data, it is found that the best book used to improve students' scientific literacy ability is book D with a value of 77.4.

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Representations of Nature of Science in Selected Histories of Science in the Integrated Science Textbooks in China

School Science and Mathematics ◽

10.1111/ssm.12013 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 113 (4) ◽

pp. 170-179 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Bing Wei ◽

Yue Li ◽

Bo Chen

Keyword(s):

Nature Of Science ◽

Integrated Science ◽

Science Textbooks ◽

Representations Of Nature

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The Analysis of the Science Textbooks for the First Three Grades in the Brimary Education in Jordan in the Domain of Science Process Skills (2017)

Review of European Studies ◽

10.5539/res.v9n4p68 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 9 (4) ◽

pp. 68

Author(s):

Mohammad Nayef Mohammad Alayasrah ◽

Shima’ Mkhymr Salih Yahyaa

Keyword(s):

Primary Education ◽

Basic Science ◽

First Grade ◽

Process Skills ◽

Science Process Skills ◽

Integrated Science ◽

Science Textbooks ◽

Observation Process ◽

Study Population ◽

Experimental Process

The current study aims at detecting the essential and integrated science process skills in the first three grades of the primary education in Jordan using the analytical and descriptive Method. The study population consists of the science textbooks of the first three grades in the primary education in Jordan in 2015/2016.The sample of the study is its population. The study has shown that the most basic science process skills included in the science textbooks is the observation process. The textbooks also include all the integrated science process skills, and the experimental process is the most frequent one. However, the books do not include the processes of using time and place elations and the connection process. According to its results, the study has recommended the following. The process of using numbers in the science textbooks of the first grade, and also the processes of using time and place processes, and connections process in the first three grades science books along with the basic science process skills in an organized and balanced form, in the first three grades should be included, it also suggests conducting a study about the evaluation of the first three grades teachers, and the changes in the science textbooks of the first three grades in Jordan.

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