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Direct linkKutluca, Ali Yigit – Science Education, 2021
The aim of this study was to determine how a learning and teaching experience, which related to socioscientific argumentation and pedagogical content knowledge (PCK), changed elementary teachers' views of teaching with socioscientific argumentation, as well as the change in their PCK and instructional practices. Five teachers studying for the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Science and Society, Persuasive Discourse
Julia Schiefer; Jana Caspari; Joana A. Moscoso; Ana I. Catarino; Pedro Miranda Afonso; Jessika Golle; Patrick Rebuschat – Science Education, 2024
Migrant students tend to underperform in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) subjects and are less likely to pursue higher education in STEM when compared with their nonmigrant peers. Given the substantial increase in migration, this disparity has been a central concern in science education in many European countries. The…
Descriptors: STEM Education, College Students, Immigrants, At Risk Students
Martha M. Canipe – Science Education, 2025
Elementary teacher educators endeavor to prepare prospective elementary teachers to teach science in ways which best support student learning. A well-documented challenge in teacher education is the disconnect between theory and practice which many programs have worked to overcome. One framework which has been used in many teacher preparation…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Educators, Science Instruction
Kitchen, Joseph A.; Sonnert, Gerhard; Sadler, Philip M. – Science Education, 2018
Insufficient student interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers has been identified as a pressing issue by educators and education policy makers. This retrospective cohort study examined one promising approach to reach and inspire students early on: college- and university- run high school STEM summer programs.…
Descriptors: Occupational Aspiration, Careers, STEM Education, Colleges
Lacy, Sara J.; Tobin, Roger G.; Crissman, Sally; DeWater, Lezlie; Gray, Kara E.; Haddad, Nick; Hammerman, James K. L.; Seeley, Lane – Science Education, 2022
We describe the development, design, implementation, and preliminary classroom results of an innovative curriculum, "Focus on Energy," that supports learning about energy in Grades 4-5. The curriculum is grounded in the concepts of science as practice, model-based reasoning, and learning progressions, and builds on students' pre-existing…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Elementary School Science, Grade 4, Grade 5
Hathcock, Stephanie J.; Garner, Joanna K.; Kaplan, Avi – Science Education, 2020
Whereas science teachers often express initial enthusiasm about the student-centered, reform-oriented instructional strategies they encounter in professional development (PD), they rarely adopt them in practice. One possible obstacle is a mismatch between these strategies and teachers' beliefs about what is possible and desirable in their…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Teaching Methods, Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs
Carman, Jennifer; Zint, Michaela; Burkett, Erin; Ibáñez, Inés – Science Education, 2021
As climate change becomes an increasingly important topic for science educators, it is critical to learn how teachers may be able to increase students' knowledge about it. We conducted two consecutive quasi-experimental studies that investigated the role of interest in predicting middle school students' knowledge gains from a unit about how…
Descriptors: Climate, Change, Science Instruction, Middle School Students
Franse, Rooske K.; van Schijndel, Tessa J. P.; Plankman, Tamara I.; Raijmakers, Maartje E. J. – Science Education, 2021
Research on the impact of guided investigation, including verbal guidance strategies, has expanded in the recent decade, and the current work contributes to this line of research in a museum context. The current in-depth study examines the impact of verbal guidance strategies on family learning at an open-ended museum exhibit, considering…
Descriptors: Museums, Science Experiments, Exhibits, Family Involvement
Murphy, P. Karen; Greene, Jeffrey A.; Allen, Elizabeth; Baszczewski, Sara; Swearingen, Amanda; Wei, Liwei; Butler, Ana M. – Science Education, 2018
Flourishing in today's global society requires citizens that are both intelligent consumers and producers of scientific understanding. Indeed, the modern world is facing ever-more complex problems that require innovative ways of thinking about, around, and with science. As numerous educational stakeholders have suggested, such skills and abilities…
Descriptors: High School Students, Concept Formation, Persuasive Discourse, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
Lombardi, Doug; Bickel, Elliot S.; Bailey, Janelle M.; Burrell, Shondricka – Science Education, 2018
Evaluation is an important aspect of science and is receiving increasing attention in science education. The present study investigated (1) changes to plausibility judgments and knowledge as a result of a series of instructional scaffolds, called model-evidence link activities, that facilitated evaluation of scientific and alternative models in…
Descriptors: High School Students, Science Instruction, Earth Science, Knowledge Level
Falk, John H.; Dierking, Lynn D.; Swanger, Lisa Prendergast; Staus, Nancy; Back, Mariana; Barriault, Chantal; Catalao, Carlos; Chambers, Cindy; Chew, Ling-Ling; Dahl, Svein A.; Falla, Sigrid; Gorecki, Bern; Lau, Tak-Cheung; Lloyd, Andy; Martin, Jennifer; Santer, Jennifer; Singer, Silvia; Solli, Anne; Trepanier, Gabrielle; Tyystjarvi, Kati; Verheyden, Patricia – Science Education, 2016
This international investigation was designed to determine if, and under what circumstances experiences at science centers, significantly correlated with a range of adult general public science and technology literacy measures. Given the complex and cumulative nature of science and technology learning, and the highly variable and free-choice…
Descriptors: Science Teaching Centers, Surveys, Adults, Foreign Countries
Moser, Stephanie; Zumbach, Joerg; Deibl, Ines – Science Education, 2017
Computer-based simulations are of particular interest to physics learning because they allow learners to actively manipulate graphical visualizations of complex phenomena. However, learning with simulations requires supportive elements to scaffold learners' activities. Thus, our motivation was to investigate whether direct or indirect…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Physics
Kloser, Matthew; Borko, Hilda; Martinez, Jose Felipe; Stecher, Brian; Luskin, Rebecca – Science Education, 2017
Assessments are powerful tools for informing teachers and students about where student thinking stands with relation to a learning goal. Yet, few studies provide qualitative analyses of assessment practice across a unit. This study uses a framework of nine dimensions of effective assessment practice in science classrooms to compare more and less…
Descriptors: Secondary School Science, Evidence, Portfolio Assessment, Middle School Teachers
Price, C. Aaron; Lee, Hee-Sun; Subbarao, Mark; Kasal, Evan; Aguileara, Julieta – Science Education, 2015
Science centers such as museums and planetariums have used stereoscopic ("three-dimensional") films to draw interest from and educate their visitors for decades. Despite the fact that most adults who are finished with their formal education get their science knowledge from such free-choice learning settings very little is known about the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Program Effectiveness, Museums, Films
Tenenbaum, Harriet R.; To, Cheryl; Wormald, Daniel; Pegram, Emma – Science Education, 2015
Darwinian evolution is difficult to understand because of conceptual barriers stemming from intuitive ideas. This study examined understanding of evolution in 52 students (M = 14.48 years, SD = 0.89) before and after a guided field trip to a natural history museum and in a comparison group of 18 students (M = 14.17 years, SD = 0.79) who did not…
Descriptors: Science Education, Scientific Concepts, Evolution, Genetics
