This week’s lecture touched on a term known as “confirmation”. Confirmation is basically the verification and the proof of something regardless if its right or wrong. In science, confirmation is associated with theories. A theory must be testable and tested, the good should be weeded out from the bad to produce and empirical or experiential data. Confirmation can be said to be a test against observation. This is how a theory is confirmed to be true or false.
One thing that I need help in is to be able to explain the term “confirmation” in a scientific manner and relate it back to scientific theories. Although I can sort of understand this term when I am in class during the lecture and I have written notes on it, the understanding of how this term is related to theories is still somewhat vague and blurry to me. At the same time, I believe that reading various articles and looking for examples of how confirmation is associated with scientific theories will clear my doubts and help me understand better as time goes by.
In the future, I would place emphasis on teaching my students to understand how a theory can or should be tested through confirmation. I would ensure that they understand how to determine if a theory is true or false instead of simply assuming that every theory is is right just because researchers said so. Making sure that my students know how to test and confirm a theory is something that I will educate them on.
Steps of the Scientific Inquiry Method
Scientific Inquiry: A continuous process