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Direct linkTessa-Marie Baierl; Franz X. Bogner – International Journal of Science Education, 2025
For young people, schools are platforms for learning and strengthening competencies about nature preservation; despite being faced with the same learning opportunities, learning outcomes are very heterogeneous. We were interested in environmental knowledge gains and retention after participation in a student-centred learning programme, and in…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Environmental Education, Knowledge Level, Forestry
Shaohui Chi; Zuhao Wang – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
Persistent concerns exist regarding the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and science achievement, prompting ongoing research into the factors enabling some low-SES students to excel in science despite the odds. This study seeks to identify multiple combinations of individual, family, and school conditions that contribute to…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, Socioeconomic Status, Science Achievement, Foreign Countries
Fussy, Daniel Sidney; Iddy, Hassan; Amani, Jaquiline; Mkimbili, Selina Thomas – International Journal of Science Education, 2023
Efforts to attract and retain women in science are increasing, yet girls and women are persistently underrepresented in science education worldwide, limiting their preparation for, access to, and opportunities in science-related careers as adults. Based on qualitative research conducted in six secondary schools in Tanzania and informed by UNESCO's…
Descriptors: Science Education, Females, Student Participation, Secondary School Students
Judith S. Lederman; Selina Bartels; Juan Jimenez; Norman G. Lederman; Katherine Acosta; Karina Adbo; Valarie L. Akerson; Mariana a. Bologna Soares de Andrade; Lucy Avraamidou; Kerry-Anne Barber; Estelle Blanquet; Saouma Boujaoude; Rosa Cardoso; Claire Dresslar Cesljarev; Pawat Chaipidech; Catherine Pozarski Connolly; David T. Crowther; Pabi Maya Das; Özgür Kivilcan Dogan; Ani Epitropova; Naruho Fukuda; Lichun Gai; Soraya Hamed; Cigdem Han-Tosunoglu; Gary M. Holliday; Xiao Huang; Rola Khishfe; Anna Koumara; Elianna Kraan; Jari Lavonen; Jessica Shuk Ching Leunga; Yanmei Li; Mila Rosa Librea-Carden; Cheng Liu; Shiang-Yao Liu; Kendra McMahon; Marlene Morales; Patricia D. Morrell; Irene Neumann; Jisun Park; Mafor Penn; Eric Picholle; Katerine Plakitsi; Umesh Ramnarain; Zhelyazka Raykova; Arantza Rico; Fátima Rodríguez-Marín; Aritz Ruiz-González; Carl-Johan Rundgren; Richard Deanne Sagun; Suvi Salonen; Hui Shao; Niwat Srisawasdi; Aik Ling Tan; Radu Bogdan Toma; Tshering; Zeynep Ünsal; Clara Vidal Carulla; Jana Visnovska; Frauke Voitle; Yalcin Yalaki; Hye-jin Yoo; Quianyun Zhu – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
Knowledge of scientific inquiry (SI) is considered essential to the development of an individual's Scientific Literacy (SL) and therefore, SI is included in many international science education reform documents. Two previous large scale international studies assessed the SI understandings of students entering middle school and secondary students…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes
Neasa Boyle; Kevin Marshall; Katriona O'Sullivan – International Journal of Science Education, 2023
Women are under-represented in science fields; this poses a significant challenge considering the emerging digital revolution. The intersectionality theory suggests that women whose social identities intersect across gender and class have distinct experiences; affecting their science aspirations. This research examined gender and class…
Descriptors: Barriers, Gender Differences, Social Differences, Social Class
Heidi Kristensen; Erik Knain – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
While researchers have stressed the importance of engaging students in activities that enhance their reasoning practices, few have scrutinised the factors that impact the reasoning involved in such activities. We explored the role of attitudes in student-group interactions concerning a climate change-related socio-scientific issue and how those…
Descriptors: Science and Society, Climate, Abstract Reasoning, Student Attitudes
Timm, J.; Oberste, N.; Schmiemann, P. – International Journal of Science Education, 2023
Pedigree problems are typical tasks in school genetics classes. However, they are perceived as difficult and often are not successfully completed. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to determine relevant factors that might have an impact on success in pedigree analysis. Based on previous research, we investigate the influence of the…
Descriptors: Genetics, Science Education, Problem Solving, Regression (Statistics)
Amy Pallant; Sarah Pryputniewicz; Hee-Sun Lee – International Journal of Science Education, 2023
Explaining phenomena associated with a system involves describing a system's structure and articulating the process through which the system's structure changes over time. This paper defines geo-sequential reasoning in the context of plate tectonics and uses it to analyse how students explain the geological processes that occur along convergent…
Descriptors: Plate Tectonics, Earth Science, Scientific Concepts, Secondary School Science
Joaquín Cañero-Arias; Ángel Blanco-López; José María Oliva – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
This research integrates context-based learning and modelling. It presents a teaching-learning sequence (TLS) about the dissolution of gases in liquids using carbonated drinks as the context. The impact of the TLS is analysed in a longitudinal short-term study involving two groups of learners aged 13-14 years old (n=53). The results led us to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Models, Secondary School Science
Richard Brock; Keith S. Taber; D. M. Watts – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
Some descriptions of learning represent the process as the development of organisations of elements. Various organisations have been proposed, for example, schemata and conceptual structures. Such representations assume that mental entities, such as concepts, are sufficiently stable and differentiated to be treated as units. We discuss these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Science, Motion
Zetterqvist, Ann; Bach, Frank – International Journal of Science Education, 2023
The past century has seen a debate on what characterises a scientifically literate citizen. Originally, scientific literacy implied that a citizen should know the products of science but has grown to incorporate processes of science and aspects of the nature of science. Studies on students' epistemic knowledge are rarer than ones on students'…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Scientific Literacy, Science Instruction, International Assessment
Brock, Richard; Taber, Keith S. – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
Representing conceptual change is challenging. Claims that conceptual change has occurred are sometimes based on data from a small number of probes given over a relatively long interval. Data collected in this way do not allow short-lived variability to be distinguished from more stable conceptual change and can lead to mistaken conclusions about…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Physics, Time, Change
Wu, Min; Sun, Daner; Yang, Yuqin; Li, Mengxue; Sun, Jin – International Journal of Science Education, 2023
The impact of self-regulated learning (SRL) on students' performance in various subjects has been extensively studied. However, there has been limited research on how task-specific SRL skills and self-reported SRL skills affect students' learning outcomes in chemistry classes at senior secondary schools. To address this gap, we examined the…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Self Management, Outcomes of Education, Chemistry
Barbara Hanfstingl; Timo Gnambs; Raphaela Porsch; Nina Jude – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
Out-of-field teaching is viewed as inferior to subject-specific instruction, but its impact on student outcomes varies depending on the criteria used for evaluation. The present study investigated the consequences of out-of-field teaching in science on different student outcomes on an international scale. Analyses were based on the sixth cycle of…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
Cheung, Kason Ka Ching; Winterbottom, Mark – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
Photomicrographs are representations of small-scale entities. It has been long argued that students can be weak in perceiving microscopic entities compared to macroscopic entities. However, only a small body of research has investigated how students utilise photomicrographs to make sense of biological phenomena. This study uses a theoretical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Photography, Laboratory Equipment, Visual Literacy
