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Leonora Kaldaras; Hope O. Akaeze; Joseph Krajcik – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
Chemical bonding is central to explaining many phenomena. Research in chemical education and the Framework for K-12 Science Education (the "Framework") argue for new approaches to learning chemical bonding grounded in (1) using ideas of the balance of electric forces and energy minimization to explain bond formation, (2) using learning…
Descriptors: Science Education, Academic Standards, Chemistry, Energy
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G. Puttick; M. Cassidy; E. Tucker-Raymond; G. M. Troiano; C. Harteveld – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
Much research attention has been focused on learning through game playing. However, very little has been focused on student learning through game making, especially in science. Moreover, none of the studies on learning through making games has presented an account of how students engage in the process of game design in real time. The present study…
Descriptors: Design, Computer Games, Peer Teaching, Science Education
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Hannah Cooke; Todd Campbell; April Luehmann; Yang Zhang; Déana Scipio – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2025
Explicitly attending to justice in science teaching and learning is long overdue. Here, we examined the professional teacher identity development of 13 science teachers as they collaborated in networked professional learning communities (PLCs) to implement and revise a culture-setting unit focused on the science of COVID and engaging in…
Descriptors: Justice, Science Education, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Britney L. Jones – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2025
Science education policies and standards have called for educators to teach students about the Nature of Science (NOS) and engage them in Culturally Relevant Science Teaching (CRST), which requires critical shifts away from traditional science teaching. As such, teachers are being asked to possess or take up conceptions of science that challenge…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Scientific Principles, Science Education
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Kaldaras, Leonora; Akaeze, Hope; Krajcik, Joseph – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2021
The Framework for K-12 science education (The "Framework") and Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) emphasize the usefulness of learning progressions in helping align curriculum, instruction, and assessment to organize the learning process. The "Framework" defines three dimensions of science as the basis of theoretical…
Descriptors: High School Students, Secondary School Science, Science Education, Academic Standards
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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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Summers, Ryan; Alameh, Sahar; Brunner, Jeanne; Maddux, John M.; Wallon, Robert C.; Abd-El-Khalick, Fouad – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2019
This study evaluated the representations of nature of science (NOS) in U.S. state science standards, and examined the changes in these representations from documents advanced in the 1980s through 2016. Drawing from the consensus perspective on NOS and prior studies focusing on the analysis of textual content, documents were inspected for 10 target…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Science Education, Educational History, Scientific Methodology
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Osborne, Jonathan; Rafanelli, Stephanie; Kind, Per – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2018
In this article, we argue for a new rationale for the science curriculum that is more coherent and more useful than the crosscutting concepts of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). In an effort to provide both clarity and justification for the science curriculum, we contend that a framework based on the idea that there are six…
Descriptors: Science Education, Logical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Affordances
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Paños, Esther; Ruiz-Gallardo, José-Reyes – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2021
Attitude toward science has been recognized as highly influential in students' engagement with science and future career choices. Science is important in our everyday lives as well, in a society demanding more scientific vocations and higher levels of scientific literacy. There is little research on how attitudes develop and evolve at early ages,…
Descriptors: Scientific Attitudes, Educational Attitudes, Science Education, Informal Education
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Fulmer, Gavin W.; Tanas, Jamie; Weiss, Kathleen A. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2018
Alignment to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) is essential in efforts to interpret the standards and to compare curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment efforts with respect to the standards. However, relatively little work has explored the alignment implications of NGSS. This article is a conceptual analysis that gives an overview of…
Descriptors: Alignment (Education), Academic Standards, Science Education, Definitions
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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
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Koomen, Michele Hollingsworth; Weaver, Sarah; Blair, Robert B.; Oberhauser, Karen S. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2016
This study reports on an innovative version of adaptive primary literature (APL) that we call Science Behind the Scenes used during a summer professional development (PD) program. Classroom teachers read and discussed papers from the primary literature, and created translations of these papers relevant to their own classroom needs. We randomly…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Curriculum, Professional Development, Science Teachers
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Kane, Justine M. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2016
The goal of this study is to bring the voices of African American boys front and center in science education research in an effort to strengthen our understandings of their experiences of school and science. Using an interpretivist perspective within a narrative inquiry approach, I focus on the student and science-student identities two African…
Descriptors: African Americans, Males, Science Education, Educational Research
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Lamb, Richard; Akmal, Tariq; Petrie, Kaylan – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2015
Successful STEM learning depends on the interaction of affect, cognition, and application of ideas. Simply put students who are unwilling to persist in STEM based endeavors do not suddenly develop into scientists, mathematicians, engineers or computer scientists, nor do they seek out STEM related courses or STEM based careers. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Educational Trends, Schemata (Cognition), Psychometrics
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Zhang, Zhihui Helen; Linn, Marcia C. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2011
This study explores the impact of asking middle school students to generate drawings of their ideas about chemical reactions on integrated understanding. Students explored atomic interactions during hydrogen combustion using a dynamic visualization. The generation group drew their ideas about how the reaction takes place at the molecular level.…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Inquiry, Chemistry, Molecular Structure
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