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Katarzyna Pomian Bogdanov – Grantee Submission, 2022
Co-design is an increasingly common process for curriculum development in science education, where teachers and researchers work together to create curricula, drawing on mutual knowledge and expertise. In efforts to understand this process, I looked at design dilemmas that occurred during design meetings and categorized the ideas that emerged in…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Science Education, Values, Instructional Design
Vieyra, Rebecca; Himmelsbach, Joshua – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2022
This study explored teachers' conceptualizations of integrated computational modeling in secondary physics by exposing twelve experienced physics teachers to programming and then analyzing interview responses. Responses revealed that teachers fell along a spectrum of disciplinary boundary-stretching mentalities. This paper presents a preliminary…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Physics, Teaching Methods, Computation
Kostøl, Kristine Bakkemo; Bøe, Maria Vetleseter; Skår, Aud Ragnhild – Science & Education, 2023
Developing students' understanding of the nature of science (NOS) is seen as critical for educating scientifically literate citizens, and has emerged as an important curricular goal internationally. In Norway, a new curriculum reform has recently been implemented, intended to improve the Norwegian education in several ways. The reform aims to…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Science Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Improvement
Caramaschi, Martina; Cullinane, Alison; Levrini, Olivia; Erduran, Sibel – International Journal of Science Education, 2022
The article describes the analysis of the Italian physics curriculum documents in terms of the coverage of nature of science (NOS). NOS is not explicitly presented as part of the Italian high-school physics curriculum. The article focuses on analysing the implicit aspects of the curriculum documents. The Family Resemblance Approach (FRA) to NOS…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physics, Scientific Principles, Secondary School Science
Govender, Nadaraj; Mudzamiri, Edson – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2022
Developing and integrating culturally aligned curriculum models which promote use of resources, such as indigenous artefacts, has been a challenge in science curriculum reforms. The study focused on the development of an integrated indigenous-pedagogical model for use in high school physics curriculum. The views of elders, teachers and learners in…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Culturally Relevant Education, Secondary School Science, Science Curriculum
Testa, Italo; Psillos, Dimitris; Molohidis, Anastasios – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
This empirical study investigates the main features of curricula and contexts that favor or hinder the process of transfer of a teaching-learning sequence (TLS) from the designers' original situation to a host one. The specific research questions addressed were (RQ1) what were the changes made during the process of transfer in the new context?…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, National Curriculum, Science Curriculum
Wei, Bing; Chen, Xiaomin – Science & Education, 2021
In this study, we examined the teaching emphasis of the history of science (HOS) in science lesson plans. The examination was based on a five-dimensional framework, which comprises conceptual, procedural, epistemological, affectional, and social dimensions. Content analysis was employed as the research methodology, targeting 71 copies of science…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science History, Science Instruction, Lesson Plans
Eddy Spicer, David H. – Mind, Culture, and Activity, 2013
This article interrogates the "soft power" of teacher teamwork by probing the ways in which authority conditions the appropriation of institutional motives through collective meaning making. The study analyzes the interaction of a teacher-leader and a science teacher team across two settings of professional development organized to…
Descriptors: Team Teaching, Science Teachers, Secondary School Science, Physics
Timme, Nicholas; Baird, Michael; Bennett, Jake; Fry, Jason; Garrison, Lance; Maltese, Adam – Physics Teacher, 2013
For the past two years, the Foundations in Physics and Mathematics (FPM)
summer program has been held at Indiana University in order to fulfill two goals: provide additional physics and mathematics instruction at the high school level, and provide physics graduate students with experience and autonomy in designing curricula and teaching courses.…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, High Schools, Secondary School Science, Physics
Sharma, Manjula Devi; Stewart, Chris; Wilson, Rachel; Gokalp, Muhammed Sait – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2013
In recent decades, the literature paid attention to students' conceptions of the nature of disciplines. This study aimed to investigate how students' cohesive and fragment conceptions of physics changed with a major change in senior high school physics syllabus. We obtained measures of conceptions of physics by utilizing a 20-item questionnaire…
Descriptors: Physics, Student Attitudes, Science Education, Attitude Change
Kurnaz, Mehmet Altan; Çepni, Salih – International Education Studies, 2012
A New Turkish Physics Curriculum has been constructed between the years 2006-2009. It is to the gaining of new perspectives. The purpose of this paper, therefore, is to reflect on the nature of the New Turkish Physics Curriculum (NTPC). To this end, the authors focus on the five themes of the NTPC using a document analysis method: basic reasons…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physics, Science Instruction, Science Curriculum
Goldberg, Fred; Price, Edward; Robinson, Stephen; Boyd-Harlow, Danielle; McKean, Michael – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2012
We report on the adaptation of the small enrollment, lab and discussion based physical science course, "Physical Science and Everyday Thinking" (PSET), for a large-enrollment, lecture-style setting. Like PSET, the new "Learning Physical Science" (LEPS) curriculum was designed around specific principles based on research on learning to meet the…
Descriptors: Evidence, Investigations, Group Activities, Physical Sciences
Korsunsky, Boris; Agar, Ozymandias – Physics Teacher, 2008
The idea of teaching physics to ninth-graders, known as "Physics First," has become more and more popular among physics educators in this country. However, introducing ninth-grade physics has been an uphill battle; such a change has a major impact on the students, parents, teachers, and the school administration. Switching to Physics First affects…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Departments, Science Instruction, Grade 9
Liu, Xiufeng; Fulmer, Gavin – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2008
This article reports on an analysis of alignment between NY state core curricula and NY Regents tests in physics and chemistry. Both the curriculum and test were represented by a two dimensional table consisting of topics and cognitive demands. The cell values of the table were numbers of major understandings in the curriculum and points of test…
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, Test Items, Science Curriculum, Curriculum Development
Richards, M. R. E.; Omdal, Stuart N. – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2007
Tiered instruction is grouping students for instruction based on their prior background knowledge in a given subject area. In this study, students were either in a control secondary science classroom or a classroom in which instruction was tiered. The tiered instruction was designed to match high, middle, or low levels of background knowledge on…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Science Curriculum, Prior Learning, Curriculum Development