تطور صورة المعرفة العلمية لدى الطلبة في مستويات دراسية مختلفة

Abstract EN

This study aimed at investigating the Jordanian students’ views about scientific knowledge and its development with their level of study ; especially, their views about its fields, objectives, ability to solve problems, representation of reality, standards of validity, viability to change and development.

The sample of the study consisted of 592 students from the 7th, 9th, 1st secondary (both scientific and literary streams) grades, and 1st and 3rd university levels.

A valid and reliable questionnaire consisting of seven open questions was used to collect data.

The results showed that the students can be divided into three groups : the first one includes 7th and 9th grade students.

These are “technologists”.

The third group includes the university students.

These are interpretive, logical positivists in general, but some of them are constructivists.

The second group which includes the first secondary stage students is between the other two groups ; they are technologist and interpretive at the same time.

The study recommended developing the science curricula and teaching methods to enable students to understand the modern views about the nature of the scientific knowledge, and conducting more research to investigate other areas of scientific thinking from the students’ points of view.