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Vance Kite; Soonhye Park – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
There is growing recognition in the education community that the problem-solving practices that comprise computational thinking (CT) are a fundamental component of both life and work in the twenty-first century. Historically, opportunities to learn CT have been confined to computer science (CS) and elective courses that lack racial, ethnic, and…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Science Teachers, Computation, Thinking Skills
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Lowell, Benjamin R.; McNeill, Katherine L. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2023
Reforms such as the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) call for substantial change in teacher practice such as instruction that is more phenomenon-based, three-dimensional, supportive of student epistemic agency, and coherent from the student perspective. Such change requires ongoing support in the form of aligned curricular materials and…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Attitude Change, Science Teachers, Faculty Development
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Marissa Levy; Amanda Peel; Lexie Zhao; Nicholas LaGrassa; Michael S. Horn; Uri Wilensky – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2025
Increasing access to computational ideas and practices is one important reason to integrate computational thinking (CT) in science classrooms. While integrating CT into science classrooms broadens exposure to computing, it may not be enough to ensure equitable participation in the science classroom. Equitable participation is crucial because…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods
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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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Sage Andersen; María González-Howard; Karina Méndez Pérez – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
This study explored a middle school science teacher's curricular sensemaking in interaction with their use of an educative storyline curriculum, aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards, that was intentionally designed for more opportunities for students' scientific sensemaking. Using a phenomenological case study methodology, we examined…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Curriculum Implementation, Science Curriculum
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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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McNeill, Katherine L.; Berland, Leema – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2017
Research and reform efforts frequently identify evidence as an essential component of science classroom instruction to actively engage students in science practices. Despite this agreement on the primacy of evidence, there is a lack of consensus around what counts as "evidence" in k-12 classrooms (e.g., ages 5-18): scholarship and…
Descriptors: Evidence, Elementary Secondary Education, Science Instruction, Science Teachers
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Yang, Rui; Porter, Andrew C.; Massey, Christine M.; Merlino, Joseph F.; Desimone, Laura M. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2020
This study investigates, through a cluster-randomized trial, the effectiveness of two approaches to increasing middle school students' science learning using a traditional science curriculum. Ninety schools were randomly assigned into one of three arms: (a) a treatment arm in which the textbook curriculum was modified based on four principles of…
Descriptors: Science Curriculum, Secondary School Science, Middle School Students, Middle School Teachers
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Bayram-Jacobs, Durdane; Henze, Ineke; Evagorou, Maria; Shwartz, Yael; Aschim, Elin Leirvoll; Alcaraz-Dominguez, Silvia; Barajas, Mario; Dagan, Etty – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2019
The purpose of this study is to provide insight into short-term professionalization of teachers regarding teaching socioscientific issues (SSI). The study aimed to capture the development of science teachers' pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) for SSI teaching by enacting specially designed SSI curriculum materials. The study also explores…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Science Curriculum, Teaching Methods
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Marco-Bujosa, Lisa M.; McNeill, Katherine L.; González-Howard, María; Loper, Suzanna – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2017
Educative curriculum materials provide teachers with authentic opportunities to learn new skills and practices. Yet, research shows teachers use curriculum in different ways for different reasons, and these modifications could undermine the learning goals of the curriculum. Little research, however, has examined the variation in teacher use of…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Science Curriculum, Case Studies, Instructional Materials
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Friedrichsen, Patricia J.; Barnett, Ellen – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2018
This instrumental case study examines how secondary biology teachers in a professional learning community (PLC) negotiated the meaning of the "Next Generation Science Standards" ("NGSS") in a year-long process of redesigning their curriculum. The PLC consisted of six biology teachers, five females and one male, who co-planned…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Science Teachers, Biology, Communities of Practice
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Arias, Anna Maria; Bismack, Amber Schultz; Davis, Elizabeth A.; Palincsar, Annemarie Sullivan – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2016
New reform documents underscore the importance of learning both the practices and content of science. This integration of practices and content requires sophisticated teaching that does not often happen in elementary classrooms. Educative curriculum materials--materials explicitly designed to support teacher and student learning--have been posited…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Science Teachers, 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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Patchen, Terri; Smithenry, Dennis W. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2014
Recent calls asking science teachers to increase student authority by diversifying instruction appear stalled by a lack of empirical evidence supporting the actual implementation of any such shifts. To better support the practical integration of more student-directed inquiry into the science classroom, we consider one teacher's day-to-day…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Praxis, Science Teachers, Inquiry
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