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Vaille Dawson
Researcher at University of Western Australia
Publications - 89
Citations - 2181
Vaille Dawson is an academic researcher from University of Western Australia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Science education & Curriculum. The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 87 publications receiving 1922 citations. Previous affiliations of Vaille Dawson include Curtin University & Edith Cowan University.
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The impact of a classroom intervention on grade 10 students' argumentation skills, informal reasoning, and conceptual understanding of science
Grady Venville,Vaille Dawson +1 more
TL;DR: This article explored the impact of classroom-based argumentation on high school students' argumentation skills, informal reasoning, and conceptual understanding of genetics, and found that after only a short intervention of three lessons, improvements in the structure and complexity of students' arguments and the degree of rational informal reasoning can occur.
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Teaching Strategies for Developing Students' Argumentation Skills About Socioscientific Issues in High School Genetics
Vaille Dawson,Grady Venville +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an Australian science teacher participated in a one-on-one professional learning session on argumentation before explicitly teaching argumentation skills to two year 10 classes studying genetics.
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High-School Students' Informal Reasoning and Argumentation about Biotechnology: An Indicator of Scientific Literacy?.
Vaille Dawson,Grady Venville +1 more
TL;DR: This article explored Australian high-school students' argumentation and informal reasoning about biotechnology using semi-structured interviews with 10 Year-8 students, 12 Year-13, 14 Year-10, and 6 Year-12 students from six metropolitan high schools in Perth, Western Australia.
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Use of Information Communication Technology by Early Career Science Teachers in Western Australia
TL;DR: This article examined the extent to which early-career science teachers perceived that their preservice education prepared them to use ICT in their teaching role, to clarify the nature of their ICT use, and identify factors that enhance or inhibit their use of ICT.
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Western Australian high school students' attitudes towards biotechnology processes
Vaille Dawson,Renato Schibeci +1 more
TL;DR: The authors found that acceptance of the use of organisms in biotechnology decreases as we move from microorganisms (>90%approval) to plants (71-82%) to humans (42-45%) and animals (34-40%).