How Choosing Science depends on Students' Individual Fit to ‘Science Culture’

Science and Culture: Cartoons to better communicate science.

Words often fail when teaching science. Although some scientific concepts lend themselves to easily articulated descriptions and definitions, others consist mostly of a language of symbols only decipherable by knowledgeable experts. Diagrams can help. However, some researchers and science educators believe another medium, known more for its entertainment value than its educational value, is oft...

How Political Science Can Contribute to Public Health: A Response to Gagnon and Colleagues

Teaching Theory of Science to Computer Science Students

An ideal Science for the existing Theory of Science (Popper, Carnap, Kuhn, Chalmers) is Physics. Not many modern Sciences conform to that ideal, however. Philosophy of Science (Theory of Science) as it is today is not of much help when trying to understand e.g. Computer Science. There is an urgent need to broaden the Theory of Science perspective in order to match the present situation within t...

Choosing Effective Methods for Design Diversity - How to Progress from Intuition to Science

Design diversity is a popular defence against design faults in safety critical systems. Design diversity is at times pursued by simply isolating the development teams of the different versions, but there are good reasons to believe that it is better to "force" diversity, by appropriate prescriptions to the teams. There are many ways of forcing diversity. The literature, including standards and ...

The influence of teachers on students’ decisions about choosing science: Comparing student and teacher perceptions

This paper reports results from a study comparing teachers’ and students’ perceptions about the relative degree of influence parents, teachers, friends, older students and careers advisors have on students’ decisions about enrolling in non-compulsory high school science subjects. The comparison was carried out as part of the Choosing Science project a large-scale Australian study of 15 year-old...