Abstract
Students can, and should, do open-ended projects intheir school science education.This article draws together findings from a series of researchinvestigations into students' research projects in schools. Itfinds that they are effective in developing core skills instudents, especially problem-solving, communication andinterpersonal skills; that they improve the attitudes ofstudents towards science and technology and the likelihood thatthey will enter careers in these areas; and that they allowstudents to experience and develop one important type ofauthentic science in schools. It suggests that we now have arationale for the inclusion of student research projects intothe science curriculum and evidence that school science will beenriched and revived by the introduction of such authentic science.
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