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Download full textForgasz, Helen, Ed. – Research in Science Education, 1991
This annual publication contains 43 research papers on a variety of issues related to science education. Topics include the following: mature-age students; teacher professional development; spreadsheets and science instruction; the Learning in Science Project and putting it into practice; science discipline knowledge in primary teacher education;…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Concept Formation, Concept Mapping, Constructivism (Learning)
Gardner, Paul L., Ed. – Research in Science Education, 1990
This book contains selected refereed papers from the 21st Annual Conference of the Australasian Science Education Research Association. The papers are as follows: "A Learning Model for Science Education: Developing Teaching Strategies" (Appleton); "Researching Balance between Cognition and Affect in Science Teaching" (Baird et al.); "Toward a…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Concept Formation, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedTisher, Richard P., Ed. – Research in Science Education, 1985
This publication contains 24 studies which focus on: the fostering of inquiry in secondary school science laboratories; realistic expectations for traditional laboratory work; a content-based, college-level science course for all students; understanding learning at the classroom level; transitions and student task involvement; a project to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Concept Formation, Concept Mapping, Curriculum Development
Gardner, Paul L., Ed. – Research in Science Education, 1992
This volume contains 48 papers and 9 abstracts/research notes. Titles include: "Alternative constructs and cognitive development: commonalities, divergences and possibilities for evidence"; "Discipline knowledge and confidence to teach science: self-perceptions of primary teacher education students"; "Teacher beliefs about learning and teaching in…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Early Childhood Education, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Gardner, Paul L., Ed. – Research in Science Education, 1993
This volume contains 41 papers and 6 abstracts/research notes. Titles include: "What makes lessons different? A comparison of a student's behaviour in two science lessons"; "Is achievement in Australian chemistry gender based?"; "Towards becoming a reflective practitioner: what to know and where to find it"; "Sci-Tec: evaluating a non-deficit…
Descriptors: Conference Proceedings, Constructivism (Learning), Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Gardner, Paul L., Ed. – Research in Science Education, 1994
This volume contains 41 papers, 10 abstracts/research notes, and an after-dinner speech "The Book of Genesis and the Chronicles of the People of ASERA (Australasian Science Education Research Association). Paper titles include: "Improving students' understanding of carbohydrate metabolism in first-year Biochemistry at tertiary level"; "Students'…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Rattray-Wood, Laurie, Ed.; Ferguson, Peter, Ed. – Australian Science Education Research Association: Research in Science Education, 1982
This publication contains a selection of science education research papers, beginning with an overview of trends in science education cognitive developmental research and theory in the United Kingdom. Papers that follow focus on developments in studies of thinking and reasoning, including work on concept mapping and conceptual change. Closely…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Cognitive Processes, Computer Simulation, Concept Formation
Tisher, Richard P., Ed. – Australian Science Education Research Association: Research in Science Education, 1984
This publication contains studies which focus on students' science concepts and the alternative frameworks they use to interpret natural phenomena. Among the specific areas investigated are: conceptions held by Year 11 chemistry students about stoichiometry; how some 9-year-old students interpret the word "solid" to mean hard, unbreakable,…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Health
