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Gary William Wright; Cesar Delgado; K. Rende Mendoza – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
Exploring how science teacher education programs can prepare science teachers to support gender and sexually diverse students remains an important area for research. A 5-week intervention was designed for pre-service science teachers' (PSSTs), addressing gender and sexual diversity (GSD). The effects of the intervention on PSSTs' attitudes and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Intervention
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Jessica L. Alzen; Jason Y. Buell; Kelsey Edwards; Brian J. Reiser; Cynthia Passmore; William R. Penuel; Chris D. Griesemer; Yang Zhang – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2025
This article explores the challenges of enacting reform-oriented curriculum in science classrooms. We use the concept of figured worlds to analyze a case study of an eighth-grade science class where the teacher reported that the students were resistant to changes she was trying to make. By examining stimulated recall interviews with the teacher…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
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Emily Starrett; Michelle Jordan; Ying-Chih Chen; Carlos Meza-Torres; Jongchan Park – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2025
Grappling with uncertainty is an essential element of students' science learning and sense-making processes, yet literature is limited regarding how teachers can facilitate and use student scientific uncertainty as a pedagogical resource in their classrooms. Furthermore, progress on pedagogical practice depends on both the ability to notice one's…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Cognitive Processes, Ambiguity (Context)
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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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Maggie S. Mahmood; Hamideh Talafian; Devyn Shafer; Eric Kuo; Morten Lundsgaard; Tim Stelzer – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
In teacher professional development (PD), grouping teachers with varying levels of experience can be a productive and empowering way to stimulate the exchange and co-generation of content and pedagogical knowledge. However, less experienced teachers can face socio-emotional risks when engaging in collaborative science content reasoning tasks with…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Collaboration, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Interpersonal Relationship
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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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Larkin, Douglas B.; Patzelt, Suzanne Poole; Ahmed, Khadija M.; Carletta, Liz; Gaynor, Catherine R. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2022
This study uses state-level staffing data to analyze the five-year career trajectories of all 231 first-year secondary science teachers in New Jersey who began teaching during the 2010-2011 school year. The person-position framework for studying teacher retention is introduced in this analysis, and the authors present a case for the importance of…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Science Teachers, Secondary Education, Teacher Persistence
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Granger, Ellen M.; Bevis, Todd H.; Southerland, Sherry A.; Saka, Yavuz; Ke, Fengfeng – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2019
This research examines factors influencing elementary science teacher learning as they participate in professional development with and enactment of educative curricula in comparison with learning following limited professional development and enactment of traditional curricula. Using a randomized cluster design (125 teachers and 2,694 students in…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Science, Science Teachers
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Jaber, 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
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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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Tuba Stouthart; Dury Bayram; Jan van der Veen – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2025
In this study, Q methodology was used to identify 16 secondary school physics, chemistry, and biology teachers' views on competences in education for sustainable development (ESD). Our data collection instrument was grounded in the "GreenComp" competence framework developed by the European Commission. We captured three different…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Science Instruction, Q Methodology
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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
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Sedawi, Wisam; Eshchar-Netz, Livat; Yakovov, Hasida; Vedder-Weiss, Dana – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2023
Science teachers' professional learning about student motivation can play a key role in developing their ability to nurture student motivation and cope with motivational challenges. To advance the understanding of how on-the-job discussions facilitate teacher learning about student motivation, this study investigated how elementary-school science…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Motivation
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Hawley, Patricia H.; Sinatra, Gale M. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2019
America's rank among the lowest of developed countries in evolution acceptance rates is due, at least in part, to religious and political opposition. The negative correlations among religiosity, political ideology, and evolution acceptance in the United States have been documented repeatedly, and comfort with evolution varies by region with…
Descriptors: Evolution, Christianity, Religious Factors, Political Issues
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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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