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Direct linkJaber, Lama Z.; Dini, Vesal; Hammer, David – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2022
While research shows that responsive teaching fosters students' disciplinary learning and equitable opportunities for participation, there is yet much to know about how teachers come to be responsive to their students' experiences in the science classroom. In this work, we set out to examine whether and how engaging teachers as learners in doing…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Empathy, Equal Education, Online Courses
Charro, Elena – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2021
A curricular Delphi study was carried out to help improve and develop scientific training for secondary school students in Spain. Using the Delphi method, the authors analyzed the degree of consensus among more than 100 stakeholders' answers to the question, "What aspects of science education are considered desirable for a (Spanish)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Science, Science Education
Liou, Pey-Yan – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2021
The purpose of this study was to examine the predictive effects of inquiry-based and teacher-directed instructional practices on students' attitudes toward science and science achievement in a nationally representative sample of 7,708 15-year-old-students from Taiwan who took part in the sixth cycle of the Program for International Student…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Scientific Attitudes, Science Achievement, Science Instruction
Matuk, Camillia; Zhang, Jiayuan; Uk, Irina; Linn, Marcia C. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2019
Inquiry instruction often neglects graphing. It gives students few opportunities to develop the knowledge and skills necessary to take advantage of graphs, and which are called for by current science education standards. Yet, it is not well known how to support graphing skills, particularly within middle school science inquiry contexts. Using…
Descriptors: Graphs, Inquiry, Middle School Students, Student Attitudes
Verena Petermann; Andreas Vorholzer; Claudia von Aufschnaiter – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2025
Science teachers' beliefs about teaching and learning are a vital component of teachers' professional competence and are often assumed to impact classroom practice. To date, these beliefs have been predominantly investigated regarding teaching and learning in general or for a particular science subject (e.g., physics). It remains to be determined…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Teachers, Science Education, Teacher Attitudes
Kapon, Shulamit; Schvartzer, Maayan; Peer, Tal – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2021
This article discusses a case study of a pair of students mentored by a physics teacher as they engaged in a long-term (15 months) engineering maker-based inquiry (EMBI), a mandatory part of these students' formal learning of physics at the advanced high school level. We conceptualize the students' engagement as participating in a particular…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Physics, Inquiry, Science Instruction
Ayodele Abosede Ogegbo; Umesh Ramnarain; Joseph Krajcik – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
Inquiry-Based Teaching Practice (IBTP) is an essential component of science education, and promoting its implementation is at the heart of various reform efforts. Even though science teachers regard IBTP as an essential pedagogical method, they rarely use it for various reasons. This study utilizes Bronfenbrenner's ecological framework to examine…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Teaching Methods, Active Learning, Inquiry
Davis, James P.; Bellocchi, Alberto – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2018
Science inquiry is an important part of educational reform focusing on improvements to pedagogy. Developing students' capacities and understandings about the design and conceptualization of scientific research informs contemporary curriculum and teaching practices. Although "objectivity" is regarded as a fundamental aspect of scientific…
Descriptors: Standards, Bias, Psychological Patterns, Science Education
Phillips, Anna McLean; Watkins, Jessica; Hammer, David – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2018
The Next Generation Science Standards states that "science begins with a question." (NGSS Lead States [2013] "Next generation science standards: For states, by states". Washington, DC: National Academies Press). Yet scientific inquiry among students and scientists alike often begins without a clear question. In this article, we…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Science Instruction, Elementary School Science, Teaching Methods
Yang, Yang; Liu, Xiufeng; Gardella, Joseph A., Jr. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2020
Situated in the context of an in-service professional development (PD) program focused on Interdisciplinary Science Inquiry, this quantitative study tests the validity of and further explores the theoretical model adapted from Desimone's (2009), "Educational Researcher," 38, 181-199 conceptual framework on effectiveness of PD. The…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Program Effectiveness, Science Teachers, Scientific Concepts
Lederman, Judith; Lederman, Norman; Bartels, Selina; Jimenez, Juan; Akubo, Mark; Aly, Shereen; Bao, Chengcheng; Blanquet, Estelle; Blonder, Ron; Bologna Soares de Andrade, Mariana; Buntting, Catherine; Cakir, Mustafa; EL-Deghaidy, Heba; ElZorkani, Ahmed; Gaigher, Estelle; Guo, Shuchen; Hakanen, Arvi; Hamed Al-Lal, Soraya; Han-Tosunoglu, Cigdem; Hattingh, Annemarie; Hume, Anne; Irez, Serhat; Kay, Gillian; Kivilcan Dogan, Ozgur; Kremer, Kerstin; Kuo, Pi-Chu; Lavonen, Jari; Lin, Shu-Fen; Liu, Cheng; Liu, Enshan; Liu, Shiang-Yao; Lv, Bin; Mamlok-Naaman, Rachel; McDonald, Christine; Neumann, Irene; Pan, Yaozhen; Picholle, Eric; Rivero García, Ana; Rundgren, Carl-Johan; Santibáñez-Gómez, David; Saunders, Kathy; Schwartz, Renee; Voitle, Frauke; von Gyllenpalm, Jakob; Wei, Fangbing; Wishart, Jocelyn; Wu, Zhifeng; Xiao, Huang; Yalaki, Yalcin; Zhou, Qiaoxue – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2019
Although understandings of scientific inquiry (as opposed to conducting inquiry) are included in science education reform documents around the world, little is known about what students have learned about inquiry during their elementary school years. This is partially due to the lack of any assessment instrument to measure understandings about…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Middle School Students, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Akuma, Fru Vitalis; Callaghan, Ronel – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2019
Around the world, there have been curricula reforms involving the incorporation of the inquiry-based teaching and learning strategy in secondary school science education in general and in practical work in particular. Research in inquiry-based practical work (IBPW) has focused, for example, on aspects of the strategy itself, on teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Faculty Development
Kampourakis, Kostas – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2016
Teaching about nature of science (NOS) is considered as an important goal of science education in various countries. Extensive empirical research about how some aspects of NOS can be effectively taught is also available. The most widely adopted conceptualization of NOS is based on a small number of general aspects of NOS, which fall into two…
Descriptors: Science Education, Scientific Principles, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
Wagh, Aditi; Cook-Whitt, Kate; Wilensky, Uri – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2017
Research on the design of learning environments for K-12 science education has been informed by two bodies of literature: inquiry-based science and Constructionism. Inquiry-based science has emphasized engagement in activities that reflect authentic scientific practices. Constructionism has focused on designing intuitively accessible authoring…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Teaching Methods, Programming, Coding
Apanasionok, Magdalena M.; Hastings, Richard P.; Grindle, Corinna F.; Watkins, Richard C.; Paris, Andreas – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2019
A comprehensive review of the literature was conducted to identify current practice on teaching science to students with intellectual disability (ID) and/or Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in relation to two review questions--students' science outcomes and students' and teachers' experiences of the interventions. Six databases related to education,…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Outcomes of Education, Intellectual Disability
