Benjamin C Herman
Biographic Data
| ID | 9512455 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin C Herman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin C |
| FAMILY NAME | Herman |
| SIGNATURE | HERMAN B C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2091-506X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
How Scientists Perceive NOS and Its Value for Science Communication
The influence of Covid-19 science views, risk perceptions, and group membership on socioscientific decisions
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed how much the science education community has yet to understand about myriad variables that impact accurately informed socioscientific issue decision-making. Toward that end, this study investigated 415 university biology students’ COVID-19 behaviours and opinions regarding how COVID-19 mandates might be associated with their views about COVID-19 science and scientists, risk perceptions, race/ethnicity, gender, and p…
It's not just a science thing
Informed scientific thinking is a vital component of engaging all socioscientific issues (SSI) such as climate change and the COVID‐19 pandemic. However, socioscientific engagement may be influenced by sociocultural factors and mis/disinformation efforts to the widespread detriment of human and environmental well‐being. The purpose of this mixed‐methods study was to determine how 506 post‐secondary life science majors' COVID‐19 related nature sci…
Promoting Young Learners’ NOS Views Through Place-Based SSI Instruction
Socioscientific Issues Thinking and Action in the Midst of Science-in-the-Making
Like all SSI, the COVID-19 pandemic requires decisions that are contentious, involve scientific thinking, and vary across social groups. This investigation determined how perceptions about COVID-19 science and sociocultural membership associate with 557 university biology students': (1) COVID-19 behaviors after stay-at-home orders and (2) support for future societal COVID-19 responses. Hierarchical moderated multiple regression analyses demonstra…
Impact of place‐based socioscientific issues instruction on students' contextualization of socioscientific orientations
This investigation examined how a 6 week environmental topics course that included place‐based socioscientific issues (SSI) instruction in the Greater Yellowstone Area (GYA) in the United States of America influenced 21 postsecondary students' expressed socioscientific orientations of Ecological Worldviews (including Interconnectedness and Sustainable Development ); Social and Moral Compassion (including Moral and Ethical Sensitivity, Perspective…
New directions in socioscientific issues research
The socioscientific issues framework has proven to have a significant impact over the last two decades on many areas related to the development of functional scientific literacy in students. In this article, we summarize and synthesize recent trends in socioscientific issues research that impact both disciplinary and interdisciplinary science education research. These trends represent science-in-context investigations that we propose are advanced…
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New directions in socioscientific issues research
The socioscientific issues framework has proven to have a significant impact over the last two decades on many areas related to the development of functional scientific literacy in students. In this article, we summarize and synthesize recent trends in socioscientific issues research that impact both disciplinary and interdisciplinary science education research. These trends represent science-in-context investigations that we propose are advanced…
Impact of place‐based socioscientific issues instruction on students' contextualization of socioscientific orientations
This investigation examined how a 6 week environmental topics course that included place‐based socioscientific issues (SSI) instruction in the Greater Yellowstone Area (GYA) in the United States of America influenced 21 postsecondary students' expressed socioscientific orientations of Ecological Worldviews (including Interconnectedness and Sustainable Development ); Social and Moral Compassion (including Moral and Ethical Sensitivity, Perspective…
Socioscientific Issues Thinking and Action in the Midst of Science-in-the-Making
Like all SSI, the COVID-19 pandemic requires decisions that are contentious, involve scientific thinking, and vary across social groups. This investigation determined how perceptions about COVID-19 science and sociocultural membership associate with 557 university biology students': (1) COVID-19 behaviors after stay-at-home orders and (2) support for future societal COVID-19 responses. Hierarchical moderated multiple regression analyses demonstra…
Promoting Young Learners’ NOS Views Through Place-Based SSI Instruction
The influence of Covid-19 science views, risk perceptions, and group membership on socioscientific decisions
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed how much the science education community has yet to understand about myriad variables that impact accurately informed socioscientific issue decision-making. Toward that end, this study investigated 415 university biology students’ COVID-19 behaviours and opinions regarding how COVID-19 mandates might be associated with their views about COVID-19 science and scientists, risk perceptions, race/ethnicity, gender, and p…
It's not just a science thing
Informed scientific thinking is a vital component of engaging all socioscientific issues (SSI) such as climate change and the COVID‐19 pandemic. However, socioscientific engagement may be influenced by sociocultural factors and mis/disinformation efforts to the widespread detriment of human and environmental well‐being. The purpose of this mixed‐methods study was to determine how 506 post‐secondary life science majors' COVID‐19 related nature sci…
How Scientists Perceive NOS and Its Value for Science Communication
Psychology (5 works) · Science education (5 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Scientific Literacy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Mathematics education (3 works) · Misinformation and Its Impacts (3 works) · Chemistry (2 works)