Pedagogical Practices for Enhancing Critical Thinking Among Middle Year Science Students

Education Research Design and Methods
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
The Literature Review................................................................................................................3
Research Question......................................................................................................................7
Research Aims...........................................................................................................................7
Research Methodology...............................................................................................................7
Research Approach....................................................................................................................7
Research design..........................................................................................................................8
Research philosophy..................................................................................................................8
Sample technique and Data analysis..........................................................................................8
Summary....................................................................................................................................8
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................9

Introduction
Club together Science, Technology, Engineering and Math in an interdisciplinary
fashion, add some innovative methods of teaching beyond the books and what we have in our
hands will be a class learning with the help of STEM. At the turn of the previous century, the
four components of the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) served as the
foundation of the development of Industrial revolution (Ross, 2016). During the previous
century STEM subjects were productive subjects for the students that were seeking for skills
to earn their livelihood, it indeed was an important stream of education. Under the schemes of
STEM they were incorporating scientific theories along with the real world applications; they
were also introducing Pedagogical practices so that students can grasp this knowledge easily.
(Stone, 2017).
STEM subjects are in a process of transformation where technology and the demands
of the industries of the future have a great role to play. Information levels of the students are
very high; they have a filtered and convenient access to the data. STEM subjects are
important at the middle levels of the education because they play a crucial role in the “critical
thinking faculty of an individual.” In the current assignment we are reviewing some sources
of literature that deals with the Pedagogical Practices for middle year science teachers to
engage their students in critical thinking in this changing environment.
The Literature Review
In the literature review conducted on the teachers perspectives regarding pedagogies
for enhancing critical thinking among middle year science students, it can be inferred that
there is a vast impact on the overall thinking of the students as well as of the teaching in the
minds of the student which also again help to analyse the subjects as well as the form of

space that they require. The following literature review concerns the articles based on the
subject and also help to critically analyse the impacts of the thinking on the pedeology of the
ends of the students.
Sadler, P.M., Sonnert, G., Coyle, H.P., Cook-Smith, N. and Miller, J.L., 2013. The
influence of teachers’ knowledge on student learning in middle school physical science
classrooms. American Educational Research Journal, 50(5), pp.1020-1049.
From the given article, it can be inferred that the knowledge of a teacher plays an
effective role on student learning in middle school. It is the skill of a teacher that helps a
student to enhance critical thinking among the middle year science students as the teacher
forms the base for the development of the skills and mind of the student right from the early
childhood days. The overall majority of the science students are to have a better
understanding of the subject and the teaching staffs of the paedology means help to
understand the ways a lot better.
It can be inferred that that science was present to offer magical solutions to the day to
day problems in the past. Now, this magical spell has become a state of the factory affair. In
the future, the main role of the science will be to predict probable solutions. He connected the
scientific practices with social issues and quite frequently quoted some international scientists
of the world.
In this paper, he gave us the breakdown of the nine elements of the scientific temper.
This piece of the literature is important for our study because it presents a sociological
account of some traditional theories that gave rise to a liberal thought process. He connected
an important thread of learning methods of the past to the present methods.
This research paper is certainly helpful for us because it connects humanitarians with
the scientific temper and allows us to explore certain Pedagogical practices that were present