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Citizen science as a context for concurrently fostering statistical, scientific and NOS reasoning

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Description

The article positions citizen science as a pedagogical design pattern in which learners engage in authentic scientific practices, including data analysis, while learning scientific content. It states: 'The context of Citizen Science is particularly suited for this goal, providing a unique pedagogical opportunity for learning scientific content by engaging learners in authentic scientific practices, including data analysis.' The Radon Citizen Science Project learning sequence operationalized this pattern.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • An interdisciplinary extended learning sequence embedding authentic scientific practices

Constraints

  • Pilot implementation was partially inhibited by COVID-19 restrictions

Target Learners

  • middle school students

Learning Goals

  • scientific content learning
  • data analysis
  • appreciating the role of uncertainty in generating data-based scientific knowledge

Claims

Examples

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Key Sources

  • Aridor, K., Dvir, M., Tsybulsky, D., & Ben-Zvi, D. (2023). Living the DReaM: The interrelations between statistical, scientific and nature of science uncertainty articulations through citizen science. Instr Sci, 51, 729–762. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11251-023-09626-8
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type design
id citizen-science-concurrent-uncertainty-reasoning
title Citizen science as a context for concurrently fostering statistical, scientific and NOS reasoning
description The article positions citizen science as a pedagogical design pattern in which learners engage in authentic scientific practices, including data analysis, while learning scientific content.
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generated by process:settle-candidates on 2026-10-18
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