Replication Data for: A framework to identify opportunities to address socioscientific issues in the elementary school curricula: a case study from England, Italy, and Portugal

This database resulted from the implementation of the Framework for Identifying Opportunities to implement the SSI approach in science school curricula (FIOSSI) to the official elementary school science curricula of England, Italy and Portugal for the 2021-2022 academic year. We applied a content analysis to the three school curricula. The “meaning unit” as the unit of analysis, refers to a collection of words or statements that pertain to a common thread or central meaning. In this study, these meaning units consisted of curriculum learning goals or their relevant segments that aligned with a specific category, subcategory or sub-subcategory of the analysis framework. The coders of this research possess diverse professional and educational backgrounds (junior and senior researchers in science education, as well as science teachers), as needed to ensure the reliability of the analysis. To enhance reliability of data analysis, each curriculum was analyzed by a minimum of two coders who were fluent in the appropriate language, independently examined the documents and identified and coded any SSI-related goals mentioned in those documents. The coders were involved in the development of the framework of analysis and afterwards in the final step of identification and coding of the units of analysis.