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Vaughn, Lisa M.; Jacquez, Farrah; Deters, Alice; Boards, Alicia – Research in Science Education, 2022
Group-Level Assessment (GLA) is a qualitative, participatory research methodology that can be used within science education, specifically to meet the Science and Engineering Practices dimension of the K-12 Next Generation Science Standards. In contrast to traditional qualitative research methods, GLA is a concrete methodological tool intended for…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Groups), Science Education, Research Methodology, Elementary Secondary Education
Toma, Radu Bogdan; Lederman, Norman G. – Research in Science Education, 2022
The development of attitudes toward science instruments has recently emerged in science education research. However, a comprehensive review of their psychometric properties, using currently accepted assessment standards, has not yet been completed. Consequently, this review discusses the validity and reliability of 18 measures published between…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Measures (Individuals), Psychometrics, Standards
Gao, Yizhu; Zhai, Xiaoming; Cui, Ying; Xin, Tao; Bulut, Okan – Research in Science Education, 2022
This paper re-validates middle school students' learning progression of the concept of buoyancy (Gao et al., 2020) by using two-time point data. The previous study developed a four-level learning progression based on data collected at a single time point using cross-sectional design. This single-time-point model of learning progression calls for a…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 8, Physics, Science Curriculum
Khoza, Hlologelo Climant; Msimanga, Audrey – Research in Science Education, 2022
There are two key categories of moves that drive interaction in science classrooms; initiating moves and rejoinders. Closed-ended initiating questions have always been associated with low student engagement and open-ended initiating questions with prolonged interaction in science classroom. In this paper, we report on a qualitative case study…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Classroom Communication, Foreign Countries, Science Teachers
Deehan, James – Research in Science Education, 2022
Stagnating test scores, underwhelming student scientific literacy and declines in post-compulsory science enrolment are major issues in Australian science education. Universities are central in improving science education, as a relatively small group of 33 higher education providers can directly influence generations of primary teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Elementary School Science
Vázquez-Bernal, Bartolomé; Mellado, Vicente; Jiménez-Pérez, Roque – Research in Science Education, 2022
Teachers' development can be seen as a dialog between their reflective thinking and their actions, with an added gradient of complexity from their social interactions. All of these elements are conjugated within their classroom practice, with their Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) as theoretical background. This paper analyzes the case of a…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Technological Literacy, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Reflection
Burke, Paul F.; Palmer, Tracey-Ann; Pressick-Kilborn, Kimberley – Research in Science Education, 2022
This study examined the preferences for professional development (PD) in primary (elementary) science among pre-service teachers (PSTs) and in-service teachers (ISTs). The contribution of the study is its focus on quantifying the relative importance of factors that were significant for teachers by using best-worst scaling methodology. Rather than…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teachers, Elementary School Science, Faculty Development
Blown, Eric J.; Bryce, Tom G. K. – Research in Science Education, 2022
This paper provides a historical review of the interview research that has been used by science educators to investigate children's basic astronomy knowledge. A wide range of strategies have been developed over the last 120 years or so as successive teams of researchers have endeavoured to overcome the methodological difficulties that have arisen.…
Descriptors: Interviews, Research Methodology, Science Education, Science Teachers
Ha, Heesoo – Research in Science Education, 2022
One main obstacle for instructors in inviting students to design knowledge construction is the tension between prioritizing students' ideas and maintaining the scientific validity of the activity. In this study, as a way of supporting students in shaping their own knowledge construction, the establishment of an audience for knowledge was enacted…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Validity
Gourlay, Helen – Research in Science Education, 2022
In this paper, I explore preservice science teachers' (science PSTs') reflective practice (RP) during a 1-year Postgraduate Certificate in Education programme in England. Previous research suggests that science PSTs are not very reflective, and I hypothesised that lack of reflectivity is related to their difficulty in learning to teach. Science…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Foreign Countries, Program Effectiveness
Owens, David C.; Sadler, Troy D.; Petitt, Destini N.; Forbes, Cory T. – Research in Science Education, 2022
Socio-scientific issues (SSI) are informed by science concepts but require consideration of societal aspects in order to be effectively understood and resolved. As a result, functional scientific literacy necessitates fluency with science as well as other domains of knowledge when engaged in reasoning about science and societal dimensions of SSI…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Science and Society, Thinking Skills, Knowledge Level
Preservice Physics Teachers' Development of Physics Identities: The Role of Multiple Representations
Munfaridah, Nuril; Avraamidou, Lucy; Goedhart, Martin – Research in Science Education, 2022
Identity-based research in physics education has been receiving increased attention in the past few years given the potential of identity in producing novel insights into the ways' students engage in physics. In this study, we examined the development of preservice physics teachers' physics identity through a specific instructional practice: a…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Physics, Science Teachers, Foreign Countries
Yang, Xuanyang; Zhao, Guoqing; Yan, Xiaomei; Chao, Qing; Zhao, Xiaoyu; Lu, Tong; Dong, Yinan – Research in Science Education, 2022
Though we have advocated explicit argumentation instruction in science classes for decades, daily instructions are still found insufficient in improving students' argumentation competence. It is therefore important to explore effective instructional strategies through classroom research. This paper compares instructional strategies for classroom…
Descriptors: Grade 10, Teaching Methods, High School Students, Active Learning
Solvang, Lorena; Haglund, Jesper – Research in Science Education, 2022
The present study contributes to the understanding of physics students' representational competence by examining specific bodily practices (e.g. gestures, enactment) of students' interaction and constructions of representations in relation to a digital learning environment. We present and analyse video data of upper-secondary school students'…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Teaching Methods
Fensham, Peter J. – Research in Science Education, 2022
Science in schooling has for the first time been recently considered as a verified whole for the 10 or 12 of its compulsory years, rather than for a limited sector of schooling or for a particular group of students. This has also been occurring as part of a wider review and plan for the whole curriculum of schooling. A framework has been provided…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Curriculum, National Curriculum, Comparative Education