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Zhenjie Hou; Jie Zhang; May JadAllah; Araceli Enriquez-Andrade; Hien Thi Tran; Raju Ahmmed – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2025
Recently, there has been a surge of literature on the implementation of translanguaging pedagogy and practices in science education settings. By activating and validating learners' full communicative repertoire, translanguaging holds promise to build an inclusive science learning community where multilingual learners' ways of knowing are not only…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Native Language, Language Usage
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Scott E. Grapin; Marisleydi Ramos Borrego; Vijay Gallardo Navarro – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2025
Research on translanguaging in science and engineering education has grown rapidly. Studies carried out across diverse contexts converge in their commitment to fostering equity in science and engineering learning for linguistically marginalized learners. However, the rapid growth of this research area has exposed different approaches to…
Descriptors: Science Education, Engineering Education, Code Switching (Language), Language Usage
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Delen, Ibrahim; Sen, Sedat – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2023
Design-based learning (DBL) offers opportunities to support students' content understanding. Previous DBL studies reported different effect sizes by using the data from one participant group. The goal of this study was to conduct a meta-analysis that would give a comprehensive picture of how DBL is connected to student achievement in different…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, Meta Analysis, Design
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Cherbow, Kevin – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2023
Recent reforms in K-12 science education call for curricular materials that are designed to be "coherent for students." This form of coherence arises when the classroom community sees their science work as addressing their questions and problems. In enactment, the teacher sometimes has to improvise from the planned trajectory of the…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Creative Activities, Educational Change, Science Education
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Kafai, Yasmin B.; Xin, Yue; Fields, Deborah; Tofel-Grehl, Colby – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2022
The pandemic outbreak of COVID-19 has highlighted an urgent need for infectious disease education for K-12 students. To gather a better understanding of what educational interventions have been conducted and to what effect, we performed a scoping review. We identified and examined 23 empirical researcher- and teacher-designed studies conducted in…
Descriptors: Communicable Diseases, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, Health Education
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Varelas, Maria; Tucker-Raymond, Eli; Richards, Kimberly – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2015
Guided by sociological perspectives that view (young) children as agents who are shaped by and shape the structures of social systems in which they live, we studied forms that agency of young children from historically marginalized groups may take in science class when offered opportunities to engage in science in a variety of ways, how curricular…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Science Instruction, Elementary School Students, Case Studies
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Kane, Justine M. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2015
Focusing on a group of African American third graders who attend a high-poverty urban school, I explore the structure-agency dialectic within contested spaces situated in a dialogically oriented science classroom. Contested spaces entail the moments in which the students challenge each other's and their teacher's science ideas and, in the process,…
Descriptors: African American Students, Grade 3, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Science
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Varelas, Maria; Pieper, Lynne; Arsenault, Amy; Pappas, Christine C.; Keblawe-Shamah, Neveen – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2014
In this study, we examined opportunities for reasoning and meaning making that read-alouds of children's literature science information books and related hands-on explorations offered to young Latina/o students in an urban public school. Using a qualitative, interpretative framework, we analyzed classroom discourse and children's writing…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Elementary School Science, Hands on Science
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Reveles, John M.; Cordova, Ralph; Kelly, Gregory J. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2004
The purpose of this article is to report findings from an ethnographic study that focused on the co-development of science literacy and academic identity formulation within a third-grade classroom. Our theoretical framework draws from sociocultural theory and studies of scientific literacy. Through analysis of classroom discourse, we identified…
Descriptors: Investigations, Ethnography, Scientific Literacy, Grade 3
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Akerson, Valarie L.; Volrich, Morgan L. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2006
This case study focused on a preservice teachers' (Morgan) efforts to explicitly emphasize nature of science (NOS) elements in her first-grade internship classroom. The study assessed the change in first grade students' views of the inferential, tentative, and creative NOS as a result of the explicit instruction. Morgan held appropriate views of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Grade 1, Preservice Teachers, Scientific Principles