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William R. Penuel; Andrew E. Krumm; Carol Pazera; Corinne Singleton; Anna-Ruth Allen; Clarissa Deverel-Rico – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
Meaningful participation in science and engineering practices requires that students make their thinking visible to others and build on one another's ideas. But sharing ideas with others in small groups and classrooms carries social risk, particularly for students from nondominant groups and communities. In this paper, we explore how students'…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Science Curriculum, Gender Differences, Racial Differences
Lowell, Benjamin R.; Cherbow, Kevin; McNeill, Katherine L. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2022
A key goal of recent reforms in science education has been to support students' collective sensemaking, in which they work together to understand a natural phenomenon. This work is often done during class discussions, but facilitating those discussions is challenging. In this study, we used a framework of three discussion types to investigate how…
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), Science Instruction, Middle School Teachers, Comprehension
Alison K. Mercier; Tierney B. Hinman – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2025
Children draw on diverse sensemaking repertoires that are inclusive of their cultural and community knowledge to make sense of science in the world around them. However, preservice teachers often do not notice the science embedded in children's explanations of phenomena. Discourses that frame children, particularly those from minoritized…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Science Instruction, Teacher Student Relationship
Lilly, Sarah; McAlister, Anne M.; Fick, Sarah J.; Chiu, Jennifer L.; McElhaney, Kevin W. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2022
Contemporary science education frameworks identify computational thinking as an essential science and engineering practice that supports scientific sense-making and engineering design. Despite national emphasis on teaching science, engineering, and computational thinking (NGSS Lead States, 2013), little research has investigated the ways that…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Science Activities, Engineering Education, Elementary School Students
Zangori, Laura; Pinnow, Rachel J. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2020
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) strives to shift science learning from the teacher as a single cognitive agent, to a classroom community in which participants are working together in directing the classroom's communal knowledge to figure out questions about how phenomena occur, and building, testing, and refining their ideas to…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Science, Grade 1
Christina Siry; Sara E. D. Wilmes; Doriana Sportelli – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2025
Equity-focused calls for elementary education reform recognize the importance of student and teacher translanguaging, yet nuances of how this process unfolds in early childhood science is an underexplored area. This study examines young plurilingual children's participation in science investigations, with a view toward understanding how open-ended…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Native Language
Gresch, Helge; Martens, Matthias – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2019
Teleology has been described as an intuitive cognitive bias and as a major type of student conception. There is controversy regarding whether teleological explanations are a central obstacle to, are legitimate in, or are even supportive of science learning. However, interaction in science classrooms has not yet been investigated with regard to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 12, Secondary School Science, Evolution
González-Howard, María; McNeill, Katherine L. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2019
Abstract For students to meaningfully engage in science practices, substantive changes need to occur to deeply entrenched instructional approaches, particularly those related to classroom discourse. Because teachers are critical in establishing how students are permitted to interact in the classroom, it is imperative to examine their role in…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Classroom Communication, Science Process Skills, Teacher Expectations of Students
Anderson, Charles W.; de los Santos, Elizabeth X.; Bodbyl, Sarah; Covitt, Beth A.; Edwards, Kirsten D.; Hancock, James Brian; Lin, Qinyun; Morrison Thomas, Christie; Penuel, William R.; Welch, Mary Margaret – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2018
This article reports on a design-based implementation research (DBIR) project that addresses the question: "How can classrooms be supported at scale to achieve the three-dimensional learning goals of the Next Generation Science Standards?" Inherent in this question are three key design challenges: (i) "three-dimensional…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Science Education, Science Curriculum, Curriculum Development
Upadhyay, Bhaskar; Atwood, Erin; Tharu, Baliram – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2020
This case study explores how a group of Grade 9 students engaged in sociopolitical discourses and actions in a science class in a mostly indigenous student school in Nepal. The study used sociopolitical consciousness (SPC) as a framework to document and understand indigenous students' SPC-oriented science interactions and subsequent social change…
Descriptors: High School Students, Science Education, Thinking Skills, Indigenous Populations
Jin, Hui; Johnson, Michele E.; Shin, Hyo Jeong; Anderson, Charles W. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2017
This study was conducted in a large-scale environmental literacy project. In the project, we developed a Learning Progression Framework (LPF) for matter and energy in social-ecological systems; the LPF contains four achievement levels. Based on the LPF, we designed a Plant Unit to help Levels 2 and 3 students advance to Level 4 of the LPF. In the…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Ecology, Scientific Concepts, Learning Processes
Zhang, Ying – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2016
This article reports the results of an ethnographic research about the multimodal science discourse in a sixth-grade sheltered classroom involving English Language Learners (ELLs) only. Drawing from the perspective of multimodality, this study examines how science learning is constructed in science lectures through multiple semiotic resources,…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Middle School Students, Grade 6, Ethnography