The Performance and Factors Influencing Junior High School Students'Scientific Reasoning Ability in Physics
Scientific reasoning,lying at the core of scientific thinking,constitutes a key component of students'higher-order thinking.This article reviews the evaluation tools and factors influencing students'scientific reasoning ability.The article also constructs a path model that includes influencing factors such as learning quality,scientific identification,learning behavior,resource support,home-school atmosphere,and teaching.Based on the eight key skills of scientific reasoning,namely,problem identification,problem formulation,hypothesis generation,experimental design and construction,evidence generation,evidence evaluation,conclusion drawing,communication and review,a framework for evaluating the scientific reasoning ability of junior high school students is constructed.Each dimension is divided into four levels,and a test question for scientific reasoning ability is developed with the content of"current size in series circuits"in junior high school physics knowledge.The scientific reasoning ability of junior high school students is evaluated,the current situation and impact path are explained,and suggestions are proposed for the implementation of high-order thinking courses based on scientific reasoning.
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