Model of educational reconstruction of solid state chemistry: Students’ view of nature of science and technology

Abstract

Develop an adequate conception of the NOST is one of the goals in science education. A good conception of nature of science and technology (NOST) is related with how students understand and perceive science concept. Solid state chemistry is one of science concept that has many applications in daily life and advance technology. Unfortunately, this concept is containing abstract concept. Therefore, need an effort to make it easily understood by students. Model of educational reconstruction (MER) is adopted to define learning design in order to make a connection between concept and its applications based on students’ and scientists’ conceptions. Students’ view of NOST is analyzed before and after intervention. Their conception about NOST are categorized into realist (R), has merit (HM), and Naïve (N). The majority of students held R view of the target NOST aspects after the intervention. These results showed that learning based on MER could support to develop students conception of NOST.