RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 Implementing citizen science programmes in the context of university gardens to promote preservice teachers' scientific literacy: a study case on soil
A1 Eugenio Gozalbo, Marcia
A1 Zuazagoitia, Daniel
A1 Ruiz González, Aritz
A1 Corrochano, Diego
A1 Hurtado Soler, Amparo
A1 Talavera, Marta
K1 Argumentation; contextbased science education; Design-based Research (DBR)
AB This work presents an assessment of pre-service teachers’argumentative practice, after implementing a novel teachinglearningsequence on soil health including a citizen scienceprogramme, which was applied outdoors at the universitygarden. The sequence was implemented at five Spanishuniversities with 351 undergraduates studying Early Childhoodand Primary Teacher Education. It posed a final assessment taskconsisting in a real-world situation that involved makingdecisions on science-related issues: students needed to arguewhether it was possible to use a piece of land as a school garden,based on soil data provided in a variety of formats. To assessparticipants’ level of achievement, a rubric was specificallydesigned by adapting the Evidence-Explanation Continuumapproach, which was applied to a subsample of 123 answers(35%). Results evidenced that the process of knowledge-buildingdiscourse from initial data to final explanations involved a seriesof transformations of increasing difficulty, since the percentage ofstudents who were able to correctly accomplish them decreaseda long the continuum. Including the citizen science programmepromoted the development of basic aspects of scientific literacyrelated to interpreting data and evidence scientifically but, forstudents to be generally capable of drawing evidence-basedconclusions, argumentation practices should be regularlyincluded in science classes.
PB Routledge. Taylor & Francis Group
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/74622
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/74622
LA eng
NO Marcia Eugenio-Gozalbo, Daniel Zuazagoitia, Aritz Ruiz-González, Diego Corrochano, Amparo Hurtado-Soler & Marta Talavera (2022): Implementing citizen science programmes in the context of university gardens to promote pre-service teachers' scientific literacy: a study case on soil, International Journal of Science Education, DOI: 10.1080/09500693.2022.2088877
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 10-may-2025