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Bächtold, Manuel; Cross, David; Munier, Valérie – Research in Science Education, 2021
This paper addresses two methodological issues related to the assessment of teachers' views of science. The first concerns the distinction between the "nature of science" (NOS) and the nature of "scientific inquiry" (SI): should the points related to NOS and those related to SI be analyzed independently? The second concerns the…
Descriptors: Classification, Scientific Attitudes, Scientific Principles, Epistemology
van Uum, Martina S. J.; Peeters, Marieke; Verhoeff, Roald P. – Research in Science Education, 2021
This paper reports a pretest-posttest study about the impact of a teacher professional development (TPD) programme on primary school teachers' knowledge of and attitude towards inquiry-based learning. A pedagogical framework of inquiry phases and domains of scientific knowledge combined with hard and soft scaffolds formed the basis for the TPD…
Descriptors: Pretests Posttests, Inquiry, Active Learning, Elementary School Teachers
Choi, Aeran; Seung, Elsun; Kim, DaEun – Research in Science Education, 2021
This study is aimed at examining science teachers' views of argument in scientific inquiry and argument-based science instruction. Questionnaires were collected from 53 middle and high school science teachers in the metropolitan area of the Republic of Korea. More than half of these respondents seemed to have a clear understanding of argument in…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Persuasive Discourse, Inquiry
Kotuláková, Katarína – Research in Science Education, 2021
Teachers bring with them a variety of beliefs when they arrive at continual professional development (CPD) training courses focusing on the inquiry-based approach to science education. These beliefs influence the way they understand, accept and ultimately implement the content of the training. The purpose of the present study was to identify the…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Active Learning
Radloff, Jeffrey; Capobianco, Brenda M. – Research in Science Education, 2021
The adoption of engineering design-based science teaching requires elementary teachers to modify their current science pedagogy, often resulting in tensions or hard choices they must make in their teaching practice. The purpose of this study is to identify, compare, and characterize the tensions faced by 45 grade 3 and grade 4 elementary teachers…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Engineering Education, Design
Nouri, Noushin; McComas, William F. – Research in Science Education, 2021
Science educators generally accept that the nature of science (NOS) should have a prominent place in school science curricula. This study highlights the special opportunity offered by the history of science (HOS) as a context for teaching NOS, by revealing HOS instructors' perspectives. We collected data from 15 instructors at 11 institutions who…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction
France, Ann – Research in Science Education, 2021
The importance of using dialogue as a pedagogical tool to enhance student learning in science has been widely recognised in research literature. Effective classroom dialogue is dependent upon teaching which successfully engages students in critical thinking and deep learning, requiring many teachers to think and work differently in science…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Classroom Communication
Tekkumru-Kisa, Miray; Kisa, Zahid; Hiester, Hannah – Research in Science Education, 2021
Students' opportunities to learn science are shaped by the intellectual work in which they engage in science classrooms. By considering the opportunity to learn as a more nuanced and complex concept than simply as exposure to the subject matter, we argue that the kind of tasks that teachers assign to students presents an important element to…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Cognitive Processes, Learning Activities, Difficulty Level
Yoder, Ryan J.; Bobbitt-Zeher, Donna; Sawicki, Vanessa – Research in Science Education, 2021
A growing body of research suggests that student-centered teaching methods are associated with positive learning outcomes for undergraduate students. Yet, the extent of their use and factors leading to their adoption in fields, such as chemistry, continue to be under-explored. Utilizing survey data collected during 2015, we begin to fill this gap,…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Teaching Methods, Undergraduate Study, College Science
Carrier, Sarah J.; Whitehead, Ashley N.; Minogue, James; Corsi-Kimble, Becca S. – Research in Science Education, 2020
Theories of how people learn and how science connects to students' lives provide frameworks for exploring the development of teachers' visions of effective science teaching. These frameworks can inform elementary teacher preparation programs about how to communicate theory-based practices of effective science instruction to support pre-service…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Science Teachers, Science Instruction
Izci, Kemal; Muslu, Nilay; Burcks, Shannon M.; Siegel, Marcelle A.; Formative Evaluation; testing; Testing – Research in Science Education, 2020
New notions of science teaching and learning provide challenges for designing and using classroom assessment. Existing assessments are not effective in assessing and supporting desired science learning because they are not designed to capture and aid such learning (NRC 2014; Pellegrino 2013). In addition, it is important to evaluate effectiveness…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Secondary School Science, Chemistry, High School Students
Anderson Quarderer, Nathan; McDermott, Mark A. – Research in Science Education, 2020
Developing the future scientists of tomorrow requires that the science teachers of today be well versed in the languages and practices of science. This may require in-service teachers to shift the way they think about learning and the role they play in their classrooms. One approach to helping teachers gain a sense of comfort with current science…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education, Persuasive Discourse
Scherb, Christian Alexander; Nitz, Sandra – Research in Science Education, 2020
Several studies have shown that "learner-generated external visual representations" (LGVRs) play a vital role for learning scientific concepts and processes. However, we know little about teachers' reasoning as to why and how to implement LGVR activities in their teaching. Thus, the purpose of our study is to determine why teachers let…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Biology, Science Instruction
A Comparison between Reported and Enacted Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) about Graphs of Motion
Mazibe, Ernest N.; Coetzee, Corene; Gaigher, Estelle – Research in Science Education, 2020
This paper reports a case study of four grade 10 physical sciences teachers' PCK about graphs of motion. We used three data collection strategies, namely teachers' written accounts, captured by the content representation (CoRe) tool, interviews and classroom observations. We conceptualised the PCK displayed in the CoRe tool and the interviews as…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Grade 10, Science Teachers
Raven, Sara; Whitman, Gretchen M. – Research in Science Education, 2019
Science learning is inextricably tied to two aspects of students' lives: literacy and culture. While English Learners (ELs) who speak a non-English native language are typically the focus in this line of scholarly inquiry, deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) students occupy a distinct space in this conversation. For DHH learners, literacy levels can be…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Hearing Impairments, Deafness