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Victoria J. VanUitert; Michael J. Kennedy; Katherine N. Peeples; John Elwood Romig; Hannah M. Mathews; Wendy J. Rodgers – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2023
Understanding science allows students with and without developmental and behavioral-based (DB) disabilities to better appreciate the world around them as well as prepare them for the growing science-related job market. However, students in the United States consistently underperform on science achievement tests compared to students from other…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Developmental Disabilities, Behavior Problems, Science Education
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Caitlin G. McC. Fine; Melissa Braaten – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2025
Science classroom assessment often requires multilingual learners to demonstrate ideas using only English-language resources. These assessments can provide an incomplete picture of students' knowledge and limit subsequent learning opportunities. Increasingly, science teachers are incorporating translanguaging pedagogies in their instructional…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Student Attitudes, Translation, Science Tests
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Vivante, Irit; Vedder-Weiss, Dana – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2023
Research indicates many professional development (PD) programs fail to promote a significant change in science teaching, despite the resources invested in them. While previous research addresses this problem through aspects of policy making, design, and teachers' identity, we suggest a focus on teachers' engagement in learning during PD sessions.…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Professional Development, Teacher Motivation, Psychological Patterns
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Khanh Q. Tran; S. Selcen Guzey – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
Science teachers and educators seek to promote equity and inclusion within their classrooms. Yet, many do not examine how their roles could reproduce oppression that continues to exclude certain groups of students. Centering on how oppression interacts with science teaching and learning, this naturalistic study observed Ms. William and her…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Science Teachers, STEM Education, Culturally Relevant Education
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Steven L. Kramer; Janie Scull; Andrew Porter; Christine M. Massey; F. Joseph Merlino; John Y. Baker – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
This study used a cluster randomized controlled trial to investigate the effectiveness of two approaches to increasing middle school students' science learning when using an inquiry-based science curriculum. Eighty-nine schools, with 253 teachers and 20,591 students, were randomly assigned into one of three conditions: (a) a treatment condition in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Science, Science Achievement, Active Learning
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Jessica L. Alzen; Jason Y. Buell; Kelsey Edwards; Brian J. Reiser; Cynthia Passmore; William R. Penuel; Chris D. Griesemer; Yang Zhang – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2025
This article explores the challenges of enacting reform-oriented curriculum in science classrooms. We use the concept of figured worlds to analyze a case study of an eighth-grade science class where the teacher reported that the students were resistant to changes she was trying to make. By examining stimulated recall interviews with the teacher…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
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Emily Starrett; Michelle Jordan; Ying-Chih Chen; Carlos Meza-Torres; Jongchan Park – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2025
Grappling with uncertainty is an essential element of students' science learning and sense-making processes, yet literature is limited regarding how teachers can facilitate and use student scientific uncertainty as a pedagogical resource in their classrooms. Furthermore, progress on pedagogical practice depends on both the ability to notice one's…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Cognitive Processes, Ambiguity (Context)
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Lowell, Benjamin R.; McNeill, Katherine L. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2023
Reforms such as the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) call for substantial change in teacher practice such as instruction that is more phenomenon-based, three-dimensional, supportive of student epistemic agency, and coherent from the student perspective. Such change requires ongoing support in the form of aligned curricular materials and…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Attitude Change, Science Teachers, Faculty Development
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Granger, Ellen M.; Bevis, Todd H.; Southerland, Sherry A.; Saka, Yavuz; Ke, Fengfeng – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2019
This research examines factors influencing elementary science teacher learning as they participate in professional development with and enactment of educative curricula in comparison with learning following limited professional development and enactment of traditional curricula. Using a randomized cluster design (125 teachers and 2,694 students in…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Science, Science Teachers
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Sage Andersen; María González-Howard; Karina Méndez Pérez – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
This study explored a middle school science teacher's curricular sensemaking in interaction with their use of an educative storyline curriculum, aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards, that was intentionally designed for more opportunities for students' scientific sensemaking. Using a phenomenological case study methodology, we examined…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Curriculum Implementation, Science Curriculum
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Ti'Era Worsley; Edna Tan – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2025
This article looks at how a Black informal STEM educator supported two Black boys' learning opportunities in coding, specifically investigating how the establishment of politicized trust between the informal STEM educator and youth supported their development of critical agency. Using the dual lenses of socio-spatial relationality and politicized…
Descriptors: Males, STEM Education, Coding, Personal Autonomy
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Lin, Qinyun; Frank, Kenneth A.; Bathia, Shruti; Draney, Karen; Thomas, Jay; Anderson, Charles W. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2022
This article reports on quantitative findings from a design-based implementation research (DBIR) project "Carbon TIME" that focused on teaching carbon cycling at multiple scales, from atomic-molecular to global. We report results from a large dataset from diverse schools, including 59,654 student assessments of three-dimensional learning…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Middle School Students, High School Students, Secondary School Science
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Anwar, Saira; Menekse, Muhsin; Guzey, Selcen; Bryan, Lynn A. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2022
Recent calls for reform in K-12 science education and the National Academy of Engineering's Grand Challenges for Engineering in the 21st Century emphasize improving science teaching, students' engagement, and learning. In this study, we designed and implemented a curriculum unit for sixth-grade students (i = 1305). The curriculum unit integrated…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Grade 6, Interdisciplinary Approach, Science Education
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Yang, Rui; Porter, Andrew C.; Massey, Christine M.; Merlino, Joseph F.; Desimone, Laura M. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2020
This study investigates, through a cluster-randomized trial, the effectiveness of two approaches to increasing middle school students' science learning using a traditional science curriculum. Ninety schools were randomly assigned into one of three arms: (a) a treatment arm in which the textbook curriculum was modified based on four principles of…
Descriptors: Science Curriculum, Secondary School Science, Middle School Students, Middle School Teachers
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Marco-Bujosa, Lisa M.; McNeill, Katherine L.; González-Howard, María; Loper, Suzanna – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2017
Educative curriculum materials provide teachers with authentic opportunities to learn new skills and practices. Yet, research shows teachers use curriculum in different ways for different reasons, and these modifications could undermine the learning goals of the curriculum. Little research, however, has examined the variation in teacher use of…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Science Curriculum, Case Studies, Instructional Materials
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