The roles of scientific epistemological views and self construal in decision making processes for science-related issues

• Main Authors: Yi-En Kuo, 郭屹恩
• Other Authors: Meng-Jung Tsai
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/pya58u

碩士 === 國立臺灣科技大學 === 數位學習與教育研究所 === 100 === The purpose of this study was to explore the roles of university student’s scientific epistemological views (SEV) and self-construal played in science-related issues’ decision making. Participants were 69 university and graduate students of Northern Taiwan. Both qualitative and quantitative methods including surveys sand content analyses were used in this study. Correlation analyses and regression analyses were used to examine the research questions of this study. It was found that “theory-laden” could significantly and positively predict subjects’ “individual consideration” while making decisions about socio scientific issues. And the “global consideration” for social cultural issues could significantly and positively predict their persistent wills to enter the damaged nuclear power to repair the equipments. Furthermore, the “information need” for social scientific issues and social cultural issues were significantly and positively correlated with each other. Based on the above results, this study suggested future studies to explore different types of “science-related issues”, such as “scientific issues”, “social scientific issues” and “social cultural issues”. Finally, future studies can also examine students’ information needs for different types of science-related issues.