Stereotypical imagery of scientists is detrimental to effective and inclusive science education. Many elementary pre-services teachers often hold onto these images, creating an unconscious bias limiting their effectiveness to both teach science content and discourage some groups from entering the scientific field. Proactive and targeted…

Today's students are expected to think like scientists. Every student has a different life and they learn in different ways. We need to understand how students view scientists and what their perceptions of them are in order to make these expectations a reality. This study aims to investigate the perceptions that Turkish secondary school students…

This study used the Draw-A-Scientist Test Checklist (DAST-C) to analyze and assess how scientists are portrayed in the illustrations found within two different prominent science textbook series used in Texas. Researchers reviewed 18 Kindergarten through eighth grade science textbooks in which 415 pages (N=8543 total), included images depicting…