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Charlene Ellingson; Gillian Roehrig – Science Education, 2025
This study examines an urban middle school teacher design team's capacity for creating integrated science, technology, engineering, and mathematics curricula. Using Brown's pedagogical design capacity (PDC) theory, which highlights interactions between personal and curricular resources, this paper introduces an extended framework that includes…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Middle School Teachers, Teacher Collaboration, Urban Schools
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Antink-Meyer, Allison; Aldeman, Matthew – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2021
Background: Renewable energy curriculum reflects research, standards, and policy documents that emphasize both environmental literacy and engineering, technology, and science concepts. Students' science achievement in this and other areas have been found to be predicted by their teachers' content knowledge. Therefore, this study examined whether,…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Energy, Environmental Education
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Gerard, Libby; Bradford, Allison; Linn, Marcia C. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2022
Guiding teachers to customize curriculum has shown to improve science instruction when guided effectively. We explore how teachers use student data to customize a web-based science unit on plate tectonics. We study the implications for teacher learning along with the impact on student self-directed learning. During a professional development…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Independent Study, Science Instruction, Web Based Instruction
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Bopardikar, Anushree; Bernstein, Debra; McKenney, Susan – Journal of Biological Education, 2023
School-based citizen-science can be a powerful means to engage youth in environmental education, yet developing robust science curricula around citizen-science activities is tremendously challenging. Prior research provides limited examples and very little guidance for curriculum designers. To support the designers of school-based citizen-science…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Curriculum Development, Instructional Design
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Akcaoglu, Mete; Dogan, Selcuk; Hodges, Charles B. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2022
In this paper, we describe the design, development, and implementation of a curriculum based on teaching computer science using an industry-standard game-design software: Unity 3D. We discuss the theoretical underpinnings of our instructional design process and steps we have taken to introduce complexity and maintain student motivation. We discuss…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Implementation, Coding
Gorman, Vanessa; O'Keeffe, Lisa; Albrecht, Amie; McPhee, Jarrad – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2023
It is well accepted and understood amongst the mathematics education community that numeracy is the responsibility of all teachers, across all levels of schooling. However, the way numeracy is understood and actioned across the Early Childhood, Primary and Secondary contexts is different. This paper reports on a case study of secondary school…
Descriptors: Barriers, Numeracy, Mathematics Instruction, Case Studies
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Soysal, Yi?lmaz – Journal of Science Learning, 2022
Science curriculums and curricular materials are essential guidelines in materializing effective science teaching. The primary goal of the current study aims to present a thematic analysis of the last three elementary and middle school science curriculums objectives released in 2013, 2017, and 2018 to determine whether they provide a base for…
Descriptors: Science Curriculum, Educational Objectives, Science Instruction, Elementary School Students
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Cunningham, Christine M.; Kelly, Gregory J. – Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research, 2022
In this paper, we address the societally important issue of developing a more equitable approach to preK-12 engineering education. Our primary emphasis is on K-8 grades--a time when first impressions of engineering may be developed. Calls for increased participation by all students, including those who have been historically marginalized, motivate…
Descriptors: Models, Equal Education, Engineering Education, Kindergarten
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Matic, Ljerka Jukic – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2019
Teachers' pedagogical design capacity is their ability to perceive and mobilise existing resources to create productive instructional episodes in the classroom. To a certain extent, this ability is dependent on the curricular resource used. As the textbook remains the most commonly used curricular resource in mathematics classrooms, the study…
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Instructional Design, Teacher Role, Experienced Teachers
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Ryan Goble; Linette Chaloka; James Hultgren; Laura Payton; Ben Peterselli; Mike Roethler; Sara Schumacher; Nessa Slowinski; Joan Witkus – English Journal, 2018
English departments are roundly praised for their emphasis on skills rather than content. In the authors' classes, students read (skill), write (skill), think (skill), speak (skill), and listen (skill). Theoretically, the books being taught are interchangeable and simply a means to skill acquisition. But that's not always what happens in the…
Descriptors: English Instruction, English Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Learner Engagement
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Drayton, Brian; Bernstein, Debra; Schunn, Christian; McKenney, Susan – Science Education, 2020
This study examines and compares how developers designed two primary science curricula to support teacher adaptation and enable use of innovative materials at scale. The two cases--"Literacy Science" (a science and literacy curriculum for grades 2-5) and "Science as Inquiry" (a curriculum focused on matter for grades 3-5)--were…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Science Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Literacy Education
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Minshew, Lana Marie; Barber-Lester, Kelly Johnson; Derry, Sharon J.; Anderson, Janice L. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2018
It is difficult to explore and understand how student knowledge develops with regard to complex systems, such as ecosystems. This study proposes the use of a Knowledge in Pieces(KiP) framework to analyze student knowledge and development in the domain of life sciences. The aim was to utilize quantitative and qualitative analyses of student…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Guidelines, Physical Sciences, Middle School Students
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Davenport, Jodi L.; Kao, Yvonne S.; Matlen, Bryan J.; Schneider, Steven A. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2020
How can research findings from cognitive and learning sciences be meaningfully applied in authentic settings to improve student learning outcomes in mathematics? Decades of basic research on how people learn has implications for the design of curriculum, instruction, and assessment. However, bringing research to practice involves simultaneously…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Mathematics Curriculum, Mathematics Instruction, Curriculum Evaluation
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Charteris, Jennifer; Smardon, Dianne – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2019
In new generation schooling contexts, the interaction of human activity, space, and objects, co- produce spatialised practices. There is the fluid use and continuous re-design of learning spaces, where dynamic socio-material practices support the ongoing and negotiated development of curriculum, pedagogy and assessment. Links are forged in this…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Administrator Attitudes, Educational Change, Teaching Methods
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Roseman, Jo Ellen; Herrmann-Abell, Cari F.; Koppal, Mary – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2017
Focusing on the science knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge that teachers need to realize the vision of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) in their classrooms, this article presents findings from efforts to (a) adapt existing criteria and design heuristics for educative features of curriculum materials and apply them in the…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Instructional Design
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