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Qianqian Gao; Yi Cao; Hongni Xie; Xuefeng Li – Science & Education, 2025
Science education in China has undergone a new round of reform in recent years, emphasizing the development of students' scientific literacy, of which the nature of science (NOS) is an essential component. Curriculum standards are the source of top-down curriculum reform, and the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China promulgated…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Education, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries
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Andy Markwick; Michael J. Reiss – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2024
Today's school students are faced with complex and harmful global challenges that they will need to address. The ability to think critically and creatively, to work in interdisciplinary teams and to understand the importance of a healthy planet for all life will be key to success. Education, including school education, has a major role in helping…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Curriculum Development, Teaching Methods, Educational Change
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Andy Markwick; Michael J. Reiss – Curriculum Journal, 2025
Today's school students are inheriting complex and harmful global challenges that are potentially irreversible and which they will need to address. The ability to think critically and creatively, to work in interdisciplinary teams and to understand the importance of a healthy planet for all life will be needed for success. Education has a major…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Curriculum Development, Global Approach, Teaching Methods
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David B. Kushner; Mya Breitbart; Kari M. Debbink; Maureen C. Ferran; Dylan M. Johnson; Laura L. Newcomb; Lauren A. O'Donnell – Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 2024
It has become increasingly important for microbiology educators to help students learn critical concepts of the discipline. This is particularly true in virology, where current challenges include increasing rates of vaccine hesitancy, misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic, and controversy surrounding research on pathogens with pandemic…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Science, Science Education, Educational Objectives
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Verstege, Sjors; Lamot, Wander; Vincken, Jean-Paul; Diederen, Julia – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
Laboratory education makes up an extensive part of natural science education at universities. To support meaningful learning during laboratory work, students should prepare by carefully studying the protocols. The aim of this study was to design and evaluate a preparative learning material that focuses on protocol steps with the design goal to…
Descriptors: Science Education, Chemistry, College Students, Curriculum Design
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Kok-Sing Tang; Grant Cooper – Science & Education, 2025
The introduction of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools like ChatGPT has raised many challenging questions about the nature of teaching, learning, and assessment in every subject area, including science. Unlike other disciplines, natural science is unique because the ontological and epistemological understanding of nature is…
Descriptors: Science Education, Artificial Intelligence, Physical Environment, Realism
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Bailey Nafziger – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2025
This forum piece extends the conversation within Katie Milton Brkich, Alejandro J. Gallard Martínez, Wesley Pitts, and Silvia Lizette Ramos de Roble's article 'The Rejection of the NGSS in Georgia: Social Covenants as Contextually Mitigating Factors,' by looking at potential implications for diverse learners and novice teachers. I draw on the…
Descriptors: Science Education, Academic Standards, State Standards, Science Curriculum
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Burns, Adrienne; Lobry de Bruyn, Lisa; Wilson, Susan C. – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2023
Systematic analysis of undergraduate curriculum design and assessment is required to ensure real world experiences are embedded in a degree structure for a high level of information literacy (IL) attainment. IL competencies and skills are critical for successful graduate outcomes. We developed a framework using a constructive alignment approach to…
Descriptors: Scoring Rubrics, Information Literacy, Competence, Undergraduate Students
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Koirala, Kamal Prasad – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2023
This paper focuses on the context underpinning the implementation of ethno science at the K-12 school science curriculum in the context of Nepal. Since human evolution, Indigenous people have both gained scientific knowledge and practiced scientific skills. This paper refers to this knowledge as Ethno Science/ Indigenous Wisdom. However, hegemonic…
Descriptors: Science Education, Indigenous Knowledge, Science Curriculum, Curriculum Development
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Rosemary Hipkins – set: Research Information for Teachers, 2024
There is often a steady trajectory of curriculum change under the surface of developments that might seem arbitrary or inconsistent. This article traces the change from key competencies to science capabilities and, most recently, to enduring competencies. All these changes (and names) respond to increasing awareness of the challenges involved in…
Descriptors: Minimum Competencies, Competency Based Education, Foreign Countries, Science Education
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Emily E. Scott; Jack Cerchiara; Jenny L. McFarland; Mary Pat Wenderoth; Jennifer H. Doherty – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2023
In recent years, there has been a strong push to transform STEM education at K-12 and collegiate levels to help students learn to think like scientists. One aspect of this transformation involves redesigning instruction and curricula around fundamental scientific ideas that serve as conceptual scaffolds students can use to build cohesive knowledge…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Science Education, Scientific Concepts, Curriculum Development
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Knight, Simon; Thompson, Kate – Research in Science Education, 2022
Integrating information from across multiple sources is an important science literacy skill that involves the following: identifying intra- and intertextual ties, modeling relationships between sources and claims and making an evaluation of the claims made. Tasks that involve reading, interpreting and synthesizing multiple sources have been well…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Science Education, Curriculum Development, Learning Activities
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Angela M. Lyle; James P. Spillane; Christa Haverly – Educational Policy, 2024
This comparative case study explores how 18 state education agencies (SEAs) support school districts in advancing standards-based elementary science reform. We identify how SEAs understand their work in advancing elementary science reform and describe how SEAs sought to engage districts in bridging from standards to classroom practice. Based on…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Science Education, Curriculum Development, Academic Standards
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Maynard H. Schaus; Victor R. Townsend Jr.; Shane Boyd; Deirdre Gonsalves-Jackson; Eric E. Johnson; Soraya M. Bartol; Marielle Postava-Davignon – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2024
In 2017, the Department of Biology at Virginia Wesleyan University modified its two-course introductory sequence in response to high DFW rates (>50% scoring a D, F, or withdrawing) in the first semester. The revised curriculum created a new third course and moved content that many students struggled with from the first semester to the third…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Biology, Science Education, Success
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Cláudia Faria; Bianor Valente; Hélia Oliveira; Cecília Galvão – Science Education International, 2024
The purpose of this study was to analyze the potentialities of a learning module, created within an Erasmus+ project, which involved pre-service elementary teachers in a socio-scientific scenario related to green cities. The participants were involved in a panel discussion activity, with the main objective of discussing and reflecting on how to…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Environmental Education, Elementary School Teachers, Conservation (Environment)
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