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Cherbow, Kevin; McNeill, Katherine L. – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2022
Background: Teachers need to make sense of curricular materials and design instruction to ensure students will be positioned to pursue their own arc of inquiry in curriculum enactment. Whole-group discussions are crucial opportunities for curricular sensemaking, yet planning and enactment can be challenging. Methods: We used a single, revelatory…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Curriculum Development, Student Participation, Group Discussion
McNeill, Katherine L.; Pimentel, Diane Silva; Strauss, Eric G. – International Journal of Science Education, 2013
Inquiry-based curricula are an essential tool for reforming science education yet the role of the teacher is often overlooked in terms of the impact of the curriculum on student achievement. Our research focuses on 22 teachers' use of a year-long high school urban ecology curriculum and how teachers' self-efficacy, instructional practices,…
Descriptors: Teacher Influence, Science Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Beliefs
Fogleman, Jay; McNeill, Katherine L.; Krajcik, Joseph – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2011
Reform based curriculum offer a promising avenue to support greater student achievement in science. Yet teachers frequently adapt innovative curriculum when they use them in their own classrooms. In this study, we examine how 19 teachers adapted an inquiry-oriented middle school science curriculum. Specifically, we investigate how teachers'…
Descriptors: Investigations, Self Efficacy, Teaching Experience, Science Education
McNeill, Katherine L.; Vaughn, Meredith Houle – Research in Science Education, 2012
This study investigates how the enactment of a climate change curriculum supports students' development of critical science agency, which includes students developing deep understandings of science concepts and the ability to take action at the individual and community levels. We examined the impact of a four to six week urban ecology curriculum…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Ecology, Climate, Misconceptions
Teachers' Use of Curriculum to Support Students in Writing Scientific Arguments to Explain Phenomena
McNeill, Katherine L. – Science Education, 2009
The role of the teacher is essential for students' successful engagement in scientific inquiry practices. This study focuses on teachers' use of an 8-week chemistry curriculum that explicitly supports students in one particular inquiry practice, the construction of scientific arguments to explain phenomena in which students justify their claims…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Case Studies, Teaching Methods, Educational Change
Krajcik, Joseph; McNeill, Katherine L.; Reiser, Brian J. – Science Education, 2008
Reform efforts in science education emphasize the importance of rigorous treatment of science standards and use of innovative pedagogical approaches to make science more meaningful and successful. In this paper, we present a learning-goals-driven design model for developing curriculum materials, which combines national standards and a…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Design, National Standards, Educational Change
Use of First-Hand and Second-Hand Data in Science: Does Data Type Influence Classroom Conversations?
Hug, Barbara; McNeill, Katherine L. – International Journal of Science Education, 2008
In this paper, we examine how students discuss and interpret data and whether these actions vary depending on the type of data they analyse. More specifically, we are interested in whether students perform differently when analysing first-hand data, which they collect themselves, compared with second-hand data provided to them. Our data analysis…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Grade 8, Grade 7, Primary Sources