nonscience
- noun
- /ˈnɒnˌsaɪəns/
- They're Different, a ninety-four-page booklet by Sheila Tobias that is based on an unusual research project with seven graduate students from nonscience fields who did well in science in high school but did not elect to continue in science in college.
- nonscience majors
- courses for nonscience
- nonscience student
Examples
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Accomplishing EE's interdisciplinary goals necessitates that in-service providers broaden audiences to include nonscience as well as science teachers.
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Many students in the program were pursuing nonscience degrees like English and History.
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I will simply say to keep nonscience out of the science classroom, and that is all.
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The still stronger reason, I would suggest, is that science is by its very nature a participatory process and nonscience is not.
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An initial interpretation might be that Bacon is describing the difference between science and nonscience.
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Despite the expressed belief that EE is interdisciplinary, in practice it attracts more science than nonscience educators.
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Many of the nonscience majors saw their introductory science course as a boot camp designed to weed out the lazy and unfit.
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Introductory courses need to include more individual attention and more of the classroom success that is so important to nonscience majors who seem to die on the vine without it.
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In each study, we employed a mixed methods study involving 245 to 303 undergraduate nonscience majors enrolled in required large-enrollment college biology courses.
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Researchers followed a college-level introductory workshop biology course for nonscience majors for three years and compared student progress to those students in the existing traditional lecture and textbook-based course.
Academic text (2012)
Synonyms
Ideas or practices that pretend to be based on facts but have no good proof
False or weak claims presented as based on careful study to mislead people
False or not proven ideas that claim to explain how the world works
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Etymology
Nonscience joins non- 'not' and science 'knowledge from study and experiment'. So, nonscience refers to ideas or methods that are not based on scientific tests or evidence.