The STS Curriculum: What Have We Learned in Twenty Years?

Cutcliffe, Stephen H.

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“…Aikenhead (1973) reached this same conclusion two decades ago in reviewing literature on instruments on the nature of science. STS courses were devised some 30 years ago specifically to fulfill this purpose, and are presently offered at about 2000 colleges and universities in the country (Roy, 1988;Cutcliffe, 1990).…”

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Views about science — technology — society interactions held by college students in general education physics and sts courses

1995

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This study examined whether and to what extent a general education STS and physics courses helped college students build more informed, realistic views about the interactions among science, technology, and society. Two samples took part in the study, one consisting of 138 college students enrolled in a general education STS course, STS 200‐Critical Issues in Science, Technology and Society, and the other comprising 122 college students enrolled in a general education physics course, PHYS 001‐The Science of Physics, at a large eastern land grant university. Pretest and posttest data were collected using 16 multiple‐choice items selected from the 114 items in the Views on Science‐Technology‐Society (VOSTS) item pool. The findings for each of the 16 VOSTS items were treated descriptively. Additionally, a special scoring procedure was devised for the VOSTS items to allow the use of inferential statistics. The STS students moved toward more “realistic” views of STS interactions on a number of VOSTS items and toward more “naive” views on other VOSTS items. The findings supported the value of general education STS courses. However, they also suggested that courses like STS 200 have room for improvement. The PHYS 001 course had almost no impact on students' views of STS interactions. It should not be expected that college general education science courses, such as PHYS 001, will help students develop more adequate, realistic understandings of the STS interactions. © 1995 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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“…CCC 0036-8326/95/040355-19 of understandings. More recently, STS has received a great amount of scholarly attention and support over the past decade by those who also see it as an educational initiative capable of fostering responsible citizenship (Cutcliffe, 1987(Cutcliffe, , 1990Foltz & Roy, 1991;Rubba & Wiesenmayer, 1985Waks, 1992).…”

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Views about science — technology — society interactions held by college students in general education physics and sts courses

1995

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“…In a survey of two decades of literature related to the STS approach, Cutcliffe (1990) found no studies of STS course effectiveness at the tertiary level. Cutcliffe concluded that the jury was still out as to whether or not STS courses achieve the kinds of understandings that are intended by their instructors.…”

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The Nature of Science in Science Education

McComas¹

2002

Science &Amp; Technology Education Library

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“…Lastly it may be noted that, in terms of approach and intellectual content, our course Chemistry and Society is related to a wider academic field called "Science, Technology and Society Studies" (STSS) [24][25][26]. Regarding this last point, it can be remarked that the content and organization of the course stresses the social process by which the various interested parties (the "actors" of…”

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A unique program for integrating health, safety, environment and social aspects into undergraduate chemical engineering education

Lemkowitz¹

1992

Plant/Oper. Prog.

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Over the last fifteen years Delft University of Technology has developed a unique educational program in its undergraduate curriculum. In this program health, safety, environmental and social aspects of chemical engineering are studied explicitly in separate courses while being integrated into the whole of educational and research activities. The program's activities include a required (“dedicated”) third year course, Chemical Risk Management, which covers environment as well as safety. There is also a required first year course, Chemistry and Society/Industrial Orientation, which studies how industries and government react to environmental and safety problems. Another required activity is the Safety Report, which fourth year and graduate students must write and have accepted in order to be allowed to carry out laboratory work. All these activities are closely related to and coordinated with one other. The program, which has been followed by more than two thousand students over the last fifteen years, requires extensive cooperation with industry.

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The STS Curriculum: What Have We Learned in Twenty Years?

Cited by 29 publications

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Views about science — technology — society interactions held by college students in general education physics and sts courses

Views about science — technology — society interactions held by college students in general education physics and sts courses

The Nature of Science in Science Education

A unique program for integrating health, safety, environment and social aspects into undergraduate chemical engineering education

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