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Expanding our views of science education to address sustainable development, empowerment, and social transformation

On 25 September 2015, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution, which took effect 1 January 2016, to transform the world to better meet human needs and the requirements of economic transformation, while pr...

Authors: William C. Kyle Jr.

Students’ problem-solving strategies in qualitative physics questions in a simulation-based formative assessment

Previous studies on quantitative physics problem solving have been concerned with students’ using equations simply as a numerical computational tool. The current study started from a research question: “How do...

Authors: Mihwa Park

Interdisciplinary insights from instructor interviews reconciling “structure and function” in biology, biochemistry, and chemistry through the context of enzyme binding

Structure and function is an essential crosscutting concept in undergraduate STEM education and appears in numerous disciplines and contexts from the introductory to advanced levels. This concept is exemplifie...

Authors: Rachel Yoho, Tanner Foster, Mark Urban-Lurain, John Merrill and Kevin C. Haudek

Understanding interactions in face-to-face and remote undergraduate science laboratories: a literature review

This paper reviews the ways in which interactions have been studied, and the findings of such studies, in science education in both face-to-face and remote laboratories. Guided by a systematic selection proces...

Authors: Jianye Wei, David F. Treagust, Mauro Mocerino, Anthony D. Lucey, Marjan G. Zadnik and Euan D. Lindsay

Biology education research: building integrative frameworks for teaching and learning about living systems

This critical review examines the challenges and opportunities facing the field of Biology Education Research (BER). Ongoing disciplinary fragmentation is identified as a force working in opposition to the dev...

Authors: Ross H. Nehm

Integrating engineering in K-12 science education: spelling out the pedagogical, epistemological, and methodological arguments

This position paper is motivated by recent educational reform efforts that urge the integration of engineering in science education. We argue that it is plausible and beneficial to integrate engineering into f...

Authors: Senay Purzer and Jenny Patricia Quintana-Cifuentes

Modeling competence in science education

Research on the understanding of the nature of models and modeling processes in science education have received a lot of attention in science education. In this article, we make five claims about the research ...

Authors: Mei-Hung Chiu and Jing-Wen Lin

New directions in socioscientific issues research

The socioscientific issues framework has proven to have a significant impact over the last two decades on many areas related to the development of functional scientific literacy in students. In this article, w...

Authors: Dana L. Zeidler, Benjamin C. Herman and Troy D. Sadler

Reimagining public science education: the role of lifelong free-choice learning

Profound changes are occurring in society, disrupting current systems and institutions; these disruptions also are affecting science education practice and research. Science learning is becoming a lifelong, se...

Authors: John H. Falk and Lynn D. Dierking

Science|Environment|Health – the emergence of a new pedagogy of complex living systems

Science|Environment|Health (S|E|H) is an emerging science pedagogy for complex living systems. The name highlights a situation of mutual benefit between science education, environmental education and health ed...

Authors: Albert Zeyer and Justin Dillon

Argumentation and interdisciplinarity: reflections from the Oxford Argumentation in Religion and Science Project

Argumentation has emerged as a key area of research and development in science education in recent years. Simply defined, argumentation is about the justification of knowledge claims with evidence and reasons....

Authors: Sibel Erduran, Liam Guilfoyle, Wonyong Park, Jessica Chan and Nigel Fancourt

Promoting deep learning through project-based learning: a design problem

In this paper, we present a design solution that involves the bringing together of Project-based Learning (PBL) with the theory of usable knowledge (Pellegrino & Hilton, Developing transferable knowledge and s...

Authors: Emily C. Miller and Joseph S. Krajcik

Teaching and learning nature of scientific knowledge: Is it Déjà vu all over again?

This review traces the history of research on the teaching and learning of nature of scientific knowledge (NOSK), and its implications for curriculum and instruction. Initially, the complex rubric of NOSK is c...

Authors: Norman G. Lederman and Judith S. Lederman

Progressing chemistry education research as a disciplinary field

This article offers a viewpoint regarding the current status of chemistry education research (CER) as a scholarly field within science education, and suggests priorities for future directions of work in the fi...

Authors: Keith S. Taber

Learning progressions: framing and designing coherent sequences for STEM education

The coupled influences of scholarship in the fields of Psychology, Philosophy, and Pedagogy beginning in the 1950s, set in motion the emergence of new images, methodological perspectives, theories, and design ...

Authors: Richard A. Duschl

The future challenge of Earth science education research

This article addresses the question of what the future directions and emphases of the research in the earth science education field ought to be. During the past 30 years, Earth science education research has e...

Authors: Nir Orion

Physics education research for 21^st century learning

Education goals have evolved to emphasize student acquisition of the knowledge and attributes necessary to successfully contribute to the workforce and global economy of the twenty-first Century. The new educa...

Authors: Lei Bao and Kathleen Koenig

Editorial: Disciplinary and interdisciplinary science education research (DISER)

Authors: Xiufeng Liu and Lei Wang