%0 Journal Article
%T Assessing preservice elementary teachers¡¯ views on the nature of scientific knowledge:A dual-response instrument
%A Ling L. Liang
%A Sufen Chen
%A Xian Chen
%A Osman Nafiz Kaya
%J Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching
%D 2008
%I Hong Kong Institute of Education
%X This paper presents the development and revision of a dual-response instrument entitled, ¡°Student Understanding of Science and Scientific Inquiry (SUSSI).¡± Built on the most recent science education reform documents and existing literature on the nature of science, SUSSI blends Likert-type items and related open-ended questions to assess students¡¯ views on the nature of scientific knowledge development in terms of six aspects: observations and inferences, tentativeness, scientific theories and laws, social and cultural embeddedness, creativity and imagination, and scientific methods. This combined quantitative and qualitative approach is a form of triangulation, which can increase confidence in the findings and help us obtain a fuller understanding of the respondents¡¯ views on the nature of scientific knowledge.
%U http://www.ied.edu.hk/apfslt/v9_issue1/liang/index.htm