Development and Evaluation of Lesson Programs for Imparting Scientific Reasoning Skills to Students

Abstract

In this paper, I developed teaching materials and lesson programs that use them in each of the processes of scientific reasoning emphasized by the new curriculum guidelines, such as setting tasks, drafting experimental plans, and considering focus on experimental results. The purpose of this paper is to practice the lesson program with students, evaluate the adequacy of the program from students’ activities and worksheet descriptions, and to evaluate whether students’ first-year courses that have introduced the program improved students’ scientific reasoning skills. By evaluating the descriptions in the worksheets, it was found that the developed lesson programs can be seen to confirm an achievement of each process of students’ scientific reasoning skills. Furthermore, I was able to confirm the improvement of university students’ scientific reasoning skills by CTSR and statistical analysis.