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The Draw-A-Scientist Test (DAST) is an open-ended projective test designed to investigate children's perceptions of the scientist. Originally developed by David Wade Chambers in 1983, the main purpose was to learn at what age the well known stereotypic image of the scientist first appeared.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... This is a list of priority disputes in history of science and science-related ... 2004–2005 controversy over the discovery ...
Motivated reasoning (motivational reasoning bias) is a cognitive and social response in which individuals, consciously or sub-consciously, allow emotion-loaded motivational biases to affect how new information is perceived. Individuals tend to favor evidence that coincides with their current beliefs and reject new information that contradicts ...
In the end, children in the original 15 schools received one year of social studies lessons and three years of science lessons compared to only one year of science in the comparison group.
The National Center for Science Education (NCSE) is a not-for-profit membership organization in the United States whose stated mission is to educate the press and the public on the scientific and educational aspects of controversies surrounding the teaching of evolution and climate change, and to provide information and resources to schools, parents, and other citizens working to keep those ...
A scientific controversy may involve issues such as the interpretation of data, which ideas are most supported by evidence, and which ideas are most worth pursuing. [1] Controversies between scientific and non-scientific ideas are not within the realm of science and are not true scientific controversies. [3]
They're really in uncharted waters.
Misbehaving Science: Controversy and the Development of Behavior Genetics is a 2014 book about the history of behavior genetics. It was written by University of California, Los Angeles sociologist Aaron Panofsky, and was published by the University of Chicago Press. It won the 2015 President's Book Award from the Social Science History ...