Research Trends on Socioscientific Issues: A Content Analysis of Publications in Selected Science Education Journals

Autor/inn/en	Tekin, Nurcan; Aslan, Oktay; Yilmaz, Suleyman
Titel	Research Trends on Socioscientific Issues: A Content Analysis of Publications in Selected Science Education Journals
Quelle	In: Journal of Education and Training Studies, 4 (2016) 9, S.16-24 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2324-805X
Schlagwörter	Content Analysis; Periodicals; Science Education; Statistical Analysis; Qualitative Research; Trend Analysis; Scientific Literacy; Journal Articles; Decision Making; Persuasive Discourse; Thinking Skills; High School Students; Validity; Reliability + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Inhaltsanalyse; Periodical; Journal; Zeitschrift; Fachzeitschrift; Periodikum; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Statistische Analyse; Qualitative Forschung; Trendanalyse; Journal article; Zeitschriftenaufsatz; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Persuasion; Persuasive Kommunikation; Denkfähigkeit; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Gültigkeit; Reliabilität
Abstract	Socioscientific issues (SSIs) have gained recently more importance in science education. SSIs are an important component of scientific literacy. SSIs are social dilemmas including conceptual or technological links to science. The present study aims to determine SSIs related research trends via content analyses of the articles published from 2004 to 2015 in five selected science education journals (SE, JRST, S&E, IJSE and RSE). Therefore, first, five journals with the highest impact factor were selected. Then, SSIs related papers were determined using electronic database search and thus 122 SSIs related articles were analyzed to determine trends in timeline, research types, related research topics, and research sample groups. The results show that SSIs related articles increased steadily leading to a peak in 2012 with the highest publishing rate in IJSE. Most of the SSIs related research employed qualitative methods. The highest rate of SSIs related qualitative studies was determined in IJSE (50.00%), and the lowest in S&E (3.57%). However quantitative methods were employed the least. In the relevant SSIs related research published about argumentation, decision-making, and informal reasoning were the most frequent SSIs related topics. The most studied research sample groups consisted of junior and senior high school students. Preschoolers were not among the sample groups. These findings indicate SSIs progressed throughout the years for paving the way for further SSIs related research studies. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01