The goal of this article is to inform professional understanding regarding preservice science teachers' knowledge of engineering and the engineering design process. Originating as a conceptual study of the appropriateness of "knowledge as design" as a framework for conducting science teacher education to support learning related to…

Recent education reform efforts advocate teaching the process of science (inquiry) in undergraduate lecture and laboratory classes. To meet this challenge, professional development for the graduate student instructors (teaching assistants, or TAs) often assigned to teach these classes is needed. This study explored the implementation of an…

Science teacher retention, attrition, and migration continue to perplex educational scholars, political entities, as well as the general public. This study utilized an interpretive methodological design to generate assertions regarding career choice made by highly qualified science teachers in the deep, rural South through analysis of documents,…

Explores the topics and issues that filled this journal during its history. Focuses on the period in U.S. history of 1917 to 1950, a time of two world wars and the Great Depression, and examines how the political and social ideas of the times were reflected in the writings in this journal. (ASK)

Explores the topics and issues that filled this journal during its history. Discusses formally published articles on the prospect of adopting the metric system. (ASK)

Explores the roots of science teaching in the early 20th century by reviewing a group of articles from this journal's back issues. (ASK)

Examines some of the issues of the crisis in education discussed in the School Science and Mathematics journal after World War II including teacher shortages, teacher pay, teacher preparation, school dropout among students, and the nature of science and mathematics education. (ASK)