In chemistry education, students Learn not only chemical knowledge and skills, but aLso about the culture of chemistry -how scientists'think about, and practise, chemistry. Students often learn that science is practised according to the 'scientific method', which is a model of scientific discovery, expounded by science historians and philosophers. The idealised 'scientific method' has a number of steps: the collection of information about a phenomenon; the development of a hypothesis to explain those observations; an experiment to test a prediction that arises from the hypothesis, perhaps including more observations and collection of more information; improvement of the hypothesis; and so on.
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