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本研究旨在探討臺灣高中學生所持有之科學本體觀、科學知識觀、科學心智習性與科學學習目標導向。本研究分成兩個部份，在第一部份，600位臺灣高中學生分別填寫科學知識觀、科學心智習性與科學學習目標導向的三份量化問卷，藉以了解科學知識觀、科學心智習性與科學學習目標導向的關係。在第二部份中，挑選出具有代表性之40位學生，藉由質性訪談的方式深入瞭解其科學本體觀與科學知識觀的關係，以及科學本體觀在其科學心智習性與科學學習目標導向所扮演的角色。主要研究結果顯示，持有越趨向於建構主義科學知識觀之學生越可能顯示正向的科學心智習性，亦越可能採用精熟目標的科學學習導向。此外，路徑分析結果顯示，學生之科學心智習性，在科學知識觀與科學學習目標導向關係中，可能扮演重要的中介角色。而質性訪談的結果指出，首先，學生的科學本體觀可分成「自然的狀態性」與「自然的結構性」兩個面向。再者，學生越傾向理想主義的科學本體觀則越可能持有較為建構主義科學知識觀。本研究亦歸類出學生之科學本體觀與科學知識觀包括「實在主義/實證主義」、「理想主義/建構主義」、「實在主義/建構主義」、「實在主義/混合」與「混合/混合」等五種類型。另外，藉由分析學生之不同科學本體觀在其科學心智習性與科學學習目標導向問卷分數後，學生持有越偏向理想主義的科學本體觀，越有可能持有正向的科學心智習性與採用精熟目標的科學學習導向。然而，若學生在「自然的結構性」面向持有傾向實在主義的科學本體觀，他們則會傾向採用表現趨避科學學習目標導向。

The purpose of this study aimed to investigate high school students’ ontological and epistemic views about within the domain of science, scientific habits of mind, and goal orientations in learning science. To this end, the current study contained two parts of investigation. The first part of the study contained a sampling pool of 600 Taiwanese high school students. The students’ responses based on three separate instruments were intended to render quantitative indicators to represent students’ scientific epistemic beliefs, scientific habits of mind, and their goal orientations in learning science. The interplay as well as the structural relations among these constructs were then clarified. In addition, the second part of the study contained 40 representative participants selected from the sampling pool. These participants were interviewed about their ontological beliefs and scientific epistemic beliefs. These collected interview data also served as the research foundation to explore and substantiate the potential relationships between scientific ontological beliefs and other three variables in this study. In general, the first part of this study revealed that the students possessing more availing scientific epistemic beliefs tended to show more positive scientific habits of mind, and endorse mastery goal orientations in learning science. Furthermore, the path analysis unraveled that the students’ scientific habits of mind may serve as mediators between their scientific epistemic beliefs and goal orientations in learning science. For the second part of this study, 40 representative students selected from the sampling pool were deeply interviewed about their scientific ontological beliefs and scientific epistemic beliefs. Through analyzing the selected students’ interview responses, two dimensions (i.e., status of nature and structure about nature) regarding scientific ontological beliefs were derived and found to be associated. Moreover, a total of five pattern variations were found based on the selected students’ categorizations of ontological and epistemic beliefs (i.e., Realist/Empiricist, Idealist/Constructivist, Realist/Constructivist, Realist/Mixed, Mixed/Mixed). Overall, the students holding Idealist ontological beliefs in the two dimensions tended to have Constructivist epistemic beliefs. In addition, the students with more sophisticated ontological beliefs were more oriented to possess more positive scientific habits of mind and adopt mastery goal orientations in science learning. However, the students with less availing ontological beliefs (i.e., Realist) concerning the structure about nature may tend to endorse Performance-avoidance goal orientation in learning science.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………1
I.1. Need for the Study………………………………………………………...………1
I.2. Outline of the Study……………………………………………………………….6
I.3. Research Questions…………………………………………………………..........8
I.3.1. General research question………………………………………………….8
I.3.2. Specific research questions………………………………………………..8
CHAPTER II: LITERATURE REVIEW………………………… 10
II.1. The Philosophical Foundations of Ontology and Epistemology of Science
II.1.1. Synthesizing ontological and epistemological stances in science………10
II.2. The Scientific Ontological Beliefs………………………………………………13
II.2.1. Conceptualizing ontological beliefs……………………………………..13
II.2.2. The challenge of classifying ontological beliefs………………………...14
II.2.3. The significance of ontological beliefs in science learning……………...15
II.3. The Scientific Epistemic Beliefs………………………………………………..18
II.3.1. Situating Epistemic beliefs………………………………………………18
II.3.2. The domain-specific trait of epistemic beliefs…………………………..19
II.3.3. The need to expand the dimensions of epistemic beliefs………………..20
II.3.4. The underlying relationships between ontological beliefs and epistemic beliefs…………………………………………………………………………...22
II.4. Scientific Habits of Mind……………………………………………………….25
II.4.1. Scientific habits of mind…………………………………………………25
II.4.2. Scientific habits of mind may be epistemic……………………………...27
II.4.3. Significance of scientific habits of mind in science education…………..29
II.5. Achievement Goal Theory………………………………………………………31
II.5.1. Conceptual Foundation of Goal Orientation……………………………. 31
II.5.2. Learners’ epistemic attributes and goal orientations…………………….34
II.6. An Integrated Model of the Researched Epistemic Attributes…………………..37
II.7. Theoretical Model……………………………………………………………….39
CHPATER III: METHDOLOGY…………………………………….41
III.1. General Research Design………………………………………………………41
III.2. Participants……………………………………………………………………..46
III.3. The Instruments for the Quantitative Part of the Study………………………...47
III.3.1.Measuring students’ scientific epistemic beliefs………………………...47
III.3.2. Assessing students’ scientific habits of mind…………………………...49
III.3.3. Evaluating students’ goal orientations in learning science……………. 51
III.4. The Data Analysis for the Quantitative Part of the Study……………………...54
III.4.1. The factor analysis for the SEBI, SHOMI, and GOLSI………………...54
III.4.2. The reliability analysis for the SEBI, SHOMI, and GOLSI………….....55
III.4.3. The correlation analysis for the quantitative data………………………55
III.4.4. The structural relations among SEBI, SHOMI, and GOLSI……………56
III.4.5. Selection of the representative students for qualitative study…………..56
III.5. The Data Collection for the Qualitative Part of the Study……………………..58
III.5.1. The interview questions of scientific ontological beliefs and scientific epistemic beliefs………………………………………………………………. 58
CHPATER IV: MAJOR FINDINGS…………………………………62
CHPATER V: RESULTS………………………………………...……72
V.1. Students’ Scientific Epistemic Beliefs Derived from Scientific Epistemic Beliefs Instrument (SEBI) ………………………………………………………………72
V.1.1. The exploratory factor analysis of SEBI…………………………………72
V.1.2. The confirmatory factor analysis of SEBI………………………………..74
V.1.3. The interrelations between factors of SEBI………………………………75
V.2. Students’ Scientific Habits of Mind Obtained from Scientific Habits of Mind Instrument (SHOMI)…………………………………………………………….77
V.2.1. The exploratory factor analysis of SHOMI……………………………....77
V.2.2. The confirmatory factor analysis of SHOMI……………………………..78
V.2.3. The interrelations between factors of SHOMI……………………………79
V.3. Students’ Goal Orientations in Learning Science Obtained from Goal Orientations in Learning Science Instrument (GOLSI)…………………………80
V.3.1. The exploratory factor analysis of GOLSI………………………………..80
V.3.2. The confirmatory factor analysis of GOLSI……………………………...81
V.3.3. The interrelations between factors of GOLSI…………………………….82
V.4. The Relationships between Students’ Responses on the SEBI, SHOMI, and GOLSI…………………………………………………………………………...84
V.4.1. The relations between the students’ responses on the SEBI and SHOMI..84
V.4.2. The relations between the students’ responses on the SEBI and GOLSI...85
V.4.3. The relations between the students’ responses on the SHOMI and
GOLSI……………..……………………………………………………...86
V.4.4. Constructing the path model among the students’ responses on the SEBI, SHOMI, and GOLSI………………………………………………………86
V.5. The Selected Students’ Scientific Ontological Beliefs Gained from the
Interview………………………………………………………………………...89
V.5.1. The interview framework for understanding the students’ scientific ontological beliefs………………………………………………………..89
V.5.2. The associations between the selected students’ ontological beliefs about the status of nature and structure about nature…………………………...94
V.6. The Selected Students’ Scientific Epistemic Beliefs Gathered from Interview…96
V.6.1. The interview framework for understanding the selected students’ scientific epistemic beliefs…………………………………………………………96
V.6.2. The results of the selected students’ scientific epistemic beliefs………..101
V.6.3. The associations between the selected students’ beliefs about knowledge and knowing…………………………………………………………….103
V.7. The Interplay between the Selected Students’ Scientific Ontological Beliefs and Their Scientific Epistemic Beliefs……………………………………………...104
V.7.1. The qualitative pattern variations between the selected students’ scientific ontological beliefs and scientific epistemic beliefs……………………...104
V.7.2. The interplay between the students’ scientific ontological beliefs about Status of nature and their scientific epistemic beliefs gathered from qualitative data……………………………………………………..……106
V.7.3. The interplay between the students’ scientific ontological beliefs about Structure about nature and their scientific epistemic beliefs gathered from qualitative data…………………………………………………………..107
V.7.4. The differences between Idealist and Realist students’ responses to the SEBI……………………………………………………………………..108
V.8. The role of students’ scientific ontological beliefs on their scientific habits of mind……………………………………………………………………………110
V.9. The role of students’ scientific ontological beliefs on their goal orientations in learning science…………………………………………………………….….112
CHPATER VI: DISSCUSSION AND IMPLICATIONS…………...114
VI.1. Discussion of the major findings……………………………………………...114
VI.1.1. The first part of the study……………………………………...………114
VI.1.2. The second part of the study…………………………………………..119
VI.2. Implications…………………………………………………………………...122
VI.2.1. Implications for methodology…………………………………………122
VI.2.2. Implications for science education…………………………………….124
BIBLIOGRAPHY…………………………………………………….128
APPENDICES……………………………………………………….. 148
Appendix A: Scientific Epistemic Beliefs Instrument (SEBI)………………...148
Appendix B: Scientific Habits of Mind Instrument (SHOMI)………………...150
Appendix C: Goal Orientations in Learning Science Instrument (GOLSI)…...151
Appendix D: Interview Protocol for Evaluating Scientific Ontological Beliefs and Scientific Epistemic Beliefs……………………………………………….152

 
LIST OF TABLES
Table 2.1. Contrasting the traditional stance and postmodern stance regarding ontology and epistemology of science…………………………………….12
Table 2.2. The key features of four scientific habits of mind………………………. 26
Table 2.3. The 2 by 2 achievement goal framework…………………………………34
Table 3.1. An overview of data collection method in the current study……………...42
Table 5.1. The exploratory factor analysis, reliability, factor means, and standard deviations of the SEBI (n = 321)……………………………….................73
Table 5.2. The confirmatory factor analysis and reliability of the SEBI (n = 279)…..74
Table 5.3. The interrelations between the factors of SEBI…………………………...76
Table 5.4. The exploratory factor analysis, reliability, factor means, and standard deviations of the SHOMI (n = 321)……………………………………….77
Table 5.5. The confirmatory factor analysis and reliability of SHOMI (n = 279)…...79
Table 5.6. The interrelations between the factors of SHOMI………………………...79
Table 5.7. The exploratory factor analysis, reliability, factor means, and standard deviations of the GOLSI (n = 321)………………………………………..80
Table 5.8. The confirmatory factor analysis and reliability of the GOLSI (n = 279)...81
Table 5.9. The correlations between the factors of GOLSI…………………………..83
Table 5.10. The correlations between the students’ responses on the SEBI and SHOMI (n = 321)…………………………………………………………………...84
Table 5.11. The correlations between the students’ responses on the SEBI and GOLSI (n = 321)…………………………………………………………………..85
Table 5.12. The correlations between the students’ responses on the SHOMI and GOLSI (n = 321)………………………………………………………….86
Table 5.13. The framework for categorizing interviewees’ scientific ontological beliefs…………………………………………………………………….90
Table 5.14. Results for selected students’ scientific ontological beliefs (N = 40)……94
Table 5.15. The associations among the selected students’ beliefs concerning status of nature and structure about nature (N = 40)………………………………..95
Table 5.16. The framework for categorizing interviewees’ scientific epistemic belief………………………………………………………………………96
Table 5.17. Results for selected students’ scientific epistemic beliefs (N = 40)……102
Table 5.18. The associations among the selected students’ beliefs about knowledge and knowing (N = 40)……………………………………………………103
Table 5.19. The pattern variations between the selected students’ scientific ontological beliefs and scientific epistemic beliefs………………………………… 105
Table 5.20. The association among the students’ ontological beliefs about the status of nature and epistemic beliefs about knowledge and knowing……………106
Table 5.21. The association among the students’ ontological beliefs about the structure about nature and epistemic beliefs about knowledge and knowing……..108
Table 5.22. The differences between idealist and realist students’ responses to the Scientific Epistemic Beliefs Instrument (SEBI)…………………………109
Table 5.23. The differences between idealist and realist students’ responses to the Scientific Habits of Mind Instrument (SHOMI)…………………………110
Table 5.24. The differences between idealist and realist students’ responses to the Goal Orientations in Learning Science Instrument (GOLSI)……………113
 
LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 2.1. Theoretical model of the current study…………………………………. 40
Figure 3.1. An overview of the research design in this study………………………..45
Figure 5.1. Path model with standardized path coefficients representing relations among variables considered in the first part of the study………………..88

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