The Status Of High School Students The Nature Of Science And Transformation

The objective of this research is to investigate high school students' conception of nature of science and discuss the influence of history of science integrated in physics teaching on students' conception of nature of science.This research made use of the static-group comparison design method for use in quasi-experimental research. The first step was to pretest NOS understandings, the next step was to process teaching experiment, and the last step was to posttest NOS understandings and issue a questionnaire to understand the students' attitude about the experimental teaching. Our research samples were 1 grade 2 classes from a province key high school in JiangSu as test group, and 1 class in the same school as control group. We made use of both quantitative and qualitative analysis to collect the data and analyze the information, and the research tools included the original Questionnaire on the NOS and Questionnaire on HOS learning. The questionnaire on NOS was analyzed by descriptive statistics and t-test to obtain a quantitative analysis. The questionnaire on HOS learning uses percentiles and inductive analysis to obtain a quantitative analysis.The NOS pretest results indicated that most high school students' NOS conceptions were close to modern views and lack of deep views in some issues. There were no significant differences between male and female students' NOS conceptions, but there were significant differences in the "exter-sociology of science" subscale. female students got higher score. There were significant differences between science students' and liberal students' NOS conceptions, science students got higher score. The result of two factors analysis of variance indicated that disciplinary had significant influence on students' NOS conceptions, and gender did not.The NOS posttest results indicated that the teaching experiment had no significant influence on science students' NOS conceptions, but liberal students' NOS conception had significant change in "exter-sociology of science" subscale. Most students enjoyed the HOS instruction, and most of them thought HOS instruction had favor to their physics study.Therefore, the recommendation of this research is that more research of HOS teaching should be made.