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Science students critical examination of scientific information related to socioscientific issues Stein Dankert Kolst?1, Terje Kristensen2, Erik Arnesen1, Anders Isnes2, Ketil Mathiassen2, Idar Mestad1, Andreas Quale2, Anne Sissel Vedvik Tonning1, Marit Ulvik1 1University of Bergen, 2University of Oslo Scientific literacy Decisions on socioscientific issues Critical assessment of scientific claims 89 science teacher education students To assess the reliability of scientific claims Article of their own choice Related to a socioscientific issue Present their assessment in a short text. The study Focused on criteria used in examinations Qualitative analysis Identified thirteen different criteria focusing on 1. Empirical and theoretical adequacy, 2. Completeness of presented information 3. Social aspects Theoretical perspectives Socioscientific issues Two main questions Political / ethical Scientific Constructivist epistemology Disputed claims from the frontier of research Reliable consensual core science Examining socioscientific issues Contested scientific knowledge claims: Lay people perform expert evaluation? What criteria might be used to judge the trustworthiness of a scientific claim? Related issues Knowledge prerequisite for critical examination Intellectual independence Relevance of different criteria for science teaching Discussed in the paper Method Data collection 89 science teacher education students Groups of 2 and 3 Search the Internet for articles Socioscientific issue of interest Method Task Write an evaluation … Focus in particular on the trustworthiness of science-related claims … Twenty-nine articles Between a half and a full written page Analyzed using qualitative methods Findings part I Criteria focusing on empirical and theoretical adequacy Quality of references relevant references” prominent scientific journals” trustworthy and respected sources, Gr.24. Because the article [...] makes references to a great many concrete scientifi