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Citation: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research 2024 6:16
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Alternative grading practices in undergraduate STEM education: a scoping review
Alternative grading strategies are increasingly popular in higher education, but research into the outcomes of these strategies is limited. This scoping review aims to provide an overview of the relevant resea...
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Characterization of physics and astronomy assistant professors’ reflections on their teaching: can they promote engagement in instructional change?
The development of reflective practitioners is one of four dominant change strategies in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) higher education literature. However, little research conce...
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Correction: Moving from surviving to thriving: a taxonomy of beginning science teacher challenges
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Correction to: Teacher candidates’ views of future SSI instruction: a multiple case study
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Effects of professional development program on primary science teachers’ ICT use in China: mediation effects of science teachers’ knowledge, beliefs and instructional practice
Faced with international science and technology competition, strengthening information, communication, and technology (ICT) use has become the core goal of science education. Many studies have revealed that te...
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Are science competitions meeting their intentions? a case study on affective and cognitive predictors of success in the Physics Olympiad
Contemporary science competitions particularly have two intentions: (1) identifying the students demonstrating the highest levels of domain-specific cognitive abilities and (2) recognizing and valuing the effo...
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Moving from surviving to thriving: a taxonomy of beginning science teacher challenges
Induction programs have been promoted as a potential solution for alleviating aspects of job dissatisfaction that lead to attrition of beginning science teachers. We can meet the immediate concerns of beginnin...
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Teacher candidates’ views of future SSI instruction: a multiple case study
The instructional approach of incorporating socioscientific issues (SSI) into science teaching has been found to improve critical thinking and problem-solving skills among K-12 students. Preparation for how to...
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From implementation to reflection: exploring faculty experiences in a curriculum-focused FOLC through multi-case analysis
Faculty development and support play an important role in improving undergraduate STEM education. Learning communities, including Faculty Online Learning Communities (FOLCs), can be a valuable resource for fac...
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Development and validation of an instrument for measuring civic scientific literacy
Civic scientific literacy (CSL) is a fundamental indicator of social development and national literacy and is very important for personal well-being and national competitiveness. To be in line with the technol...
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An analysis of students’ perceptions of teachers’ questioning in secondary biology classrooms
Secondary students’ perceptions of teachers’ questioning have not been clarified in the literature, but these perspectives are invaluable as they help to make sense of what students notice about teachers’ ques...
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A study on textbook use and its effects on students’ academic performance
Curriculum education reforms are being carried out in various countries, in which great research interest has been generated in the use of textbooks and the effectiveness of their use. In this study, the focus...
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Revalidating a measurement instrument of spatial thinking ability for junior and high school students
Spatial thinking is a set of cognitive abilities that enable people to organize, reason about, and mentally manipulate both real and imagined spaces. One of the available measurement instruments is the Spatial...
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An analysis of Chinese chemistry curriculum standards based on OECD Education 2030 Curriculum Content Mapping
The development of students' core competencies for the future society has become a shared goal in curriculum reform worldwide. Efforts are being made to investigate which core competencies should be cultivated...
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Do science teachers’ believes related to inquiry-based teaching affect students’ science process skills? Evidence from a multilevel model analysis
Inquiry-based science teaching has emerged as a prominent trend in science education. Nevertheless, it remains uncertain how teachers' self-efficacy in regard to the teaching of science as inquiry (TSI) affect...
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Two-Ways thinking and Two-Eyed Seeing as ways of implementing Indigenous perspectives in the science education curriculum
A groundswell to include Indigenous Knowledge in the school science curriculum has led to the inclusion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures (generally known as Indigenous perspectiv...
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Transforming standards into classrooms for knowledge-in-use: an effective and coherent project-based learning system
Global science education reform calls for developing student knowledge-in-use that applies the integrated knowledge of core ideas and scientific practices to make sense of phenomena or solve problems. Knowledg...
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Development and validation of an instrument for assessing scientific literacy from junior to senior high school
Assessing students' scientific literacy is necessary for science education policy, accountability and curriculum design and implementation, and there is a need for a valid, reliable and easy to use measurement...
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Chinese pre-service chemistry teachers’ perception of augmented reality-assisted secondary chemistry learning
This research aims to explore the functional characteristics of Augmented Reality (AR) supported teaching in secondary chemistry learning, based on the theoretical framework of AR research in science education...
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A tale of two progressions: students’ learning progression of the particle nature of matter and teachers’ perception on the progression
Learning progressions (LPs) provide researchers with a robust framework to describe the process of students’ cognitive development in science and provide teachers with an effective reference to help students’ ...
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Exploring the influence of collaborative data-based decision making among teachers in professional learning communities on teaching practice
Educational policies such as the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001 and Every Student Succeeds Act in 2015 have emphasized the need for hard evidence such as standardized test data to make educational decisions....
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Publisher Correction: Effect of retrieval practice and drawing on high school students’ conceptual understanding of the carbon cycle
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Curriculum content mapping of the Chinese National Biology Curriculum Standards for middle school: an analysis from the OECD Education 2030 perspective
Curriculum standards are a critical component of a nation’s educational system and directly impact talent development and overall national development. Most studies on curriculum standards focus on a single co...
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Effect of retrieval practice and drawing on high school students’ conceptual understanding of the carbon cycle
Both learner-generated drawing and retrieval practice methods are effective to enhance science learning. To compare the impact of combining different drawing methods (representational drawing vs. abstract draw...
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Policy translation in assemblage: networked actors mediating science teachers’ policy play
Educational policies exist as part of complex systems of many policies, all of which science teachers must make sense before using in practice. Using Actor-Network Theory to view policy translation in assembla...
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Alignment analysis of teaching–learning-assessment within the classroom: how teachers implement project-based learning under the curriculum standards
This multi-case study examined the strengths and weaknesses of aligning teaching–learning-assessment of classroom project-based learning to curriculum standards and offered suggestions for teacher training and...
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Refinement of an instrument measuring science teachers’ knowledge of language through mixed method
Teachers must know how to use language to support students in knowledge generation environments that align to the Next Generation Science Standards. To measure this knowledge, this study refines a survey on te...
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Characterizing faculty motivation to implement three-dimensional learning
The National Research Council’s Framework for K-12 Science Education and the subsequent Next Generation Science Standards have provided a widespread common language for science education reform over the last d...
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Unravelling early childhood pre-service teachers’ implicit stereotypes of scientists by using the repertory grid technique
Considering teachers’ roles in developing children’s scientific literacy in preschools, a better understanding of pre-service teachers’ conceptualizations about scientific inquiry and scientists’ practices tha...
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Professional development programs to improve science teachers’ skills in the facilitation of argumentation in science classroom—a systematic review
Argumentation is crucial to fostering scientific reasoning and problem-solving in science education. However, researchers and teachers still report problems facilitating argumentation in the classroom. This ma...
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An understanding of falling bodies across schooling and experience based on the conceptual prevalence framework
In this article, we describe a study conducted online with 953 participants of varying levels of education and, when applicable, science/physics teaching experience. These participants were asked to solve a co...
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Creating Digital Sci-Fi Narratives through Multimodal Composing to Promote Adolescent Students’ STEM Education
Much research has examined the incorporation of academic and scientific writing in science learning. However, less research has applied a narrative approach that represents events in a time sequence. Furthermo...
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Learning science through a collaborative invention project in primary school
The study examines students’ disciplinary learning in physics and interdisciplinary science learning opportunities that students encounter during a collaborative invention project. Thirteen student teams (aged...
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A content analysis of alignment messages to the Next Generation Science Standards
Teachers are a critical component to standards-based reform systems, which require that reforms conceived at the national level pass through several layers of the educational system before impacting learning i...
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Publisher Correction: Student interaction discourse moves: characterizing and visualizing student discourse patterns
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Investigating the presence of mathematics and the levels of cognitively demanding mathematical tasks in integrated STEM units
Effective K-12 integrated STEM education should reflect an intentional effort to adequately represent and facilitate each of its component disciplines in a meaningful way. However, most research in this space ...
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Student interaction discourse moves: characterizing and visualizing student discourse patterns
Student-centered instruction allows students to take ownership over their learning in the classroom. However, these settings do not always promote productive engagement. Using discourse analysis, student engag...
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Teaching controversial socio-scientific issues in online exhibits of science museums: Covid-19 on the scene
The Covid-19 pandemic has sparked an unprecedented public debate over socio-scientific controversies, particularly regarding vaccination and social distancing measures. Despite the potential of such subjects f...
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A case study of a novel summer bridge program to prepare transfer students for research in biological sciences
Undergraduate research experiences enculturate students into the research community by providing support networks to explore advanced professional opportunities. However, transfer students are at a considerabl...
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A qualitative study of teachers’ and students’ experiences with a context-based curriculum unit designed in collaboration with STEM professionals and science educators
Context-based science teaching aims to increase students’ motivation for science learning by demonstrating the personal and societal relevance of science knowledge and practices. However, designing and impleme...
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Towards water literacy: an interdisciplinary analysis of standards for teaching and learning about humans and Water
Water is critical to sustain human existence. Water literacy involves understanding the interactions within and between natural and human dimensions of water systems to support informed decision-making, an imp...
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The lived experiences of pre-service science teachers designing and teaching socioscientific issues-based units
The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of secondary science preservice teachers while designing and implementing SSI-based instructional processes, as well as their interpretations from these...
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Examining the usability and viability of using a simulated classroom environment to prepare preservice science teachers during and after the COVID-19 pandemic
Educator preparation programs experienced extreme challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, as many universities and K-12 schools moved to fully online or hybrid instructional models. These abrupt changes signi...
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Exploring the relationship between individual characteristics and argumentative discourse styles: the role of achievement goals and personality traits
Different argumentative discourse styles will have different effects on science learning. Some researchers proposed that two learners’ individual characteristics, including achievement goals and personality tr...
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Gender demographics of departmental seminar speakers reflect gender disparities of faculty hosts
Increasing access, representation, and retention of underrepresented groups is essential across academia. Invited speaker seminars are common practice in academic science departments and serve to disseminate r...
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The impacts of COVID-19 on K-8 science teaching and teachers
Some science education researchers have presented either isolated findings on specific points in time during the pandemic or non-empirical insights or suggestions for how teachers, district leaders, policymake...
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The shifting educational landscape: science teachers’ practice during the COVID-19 pandemic through an activity theory lens
In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic closed all educational institutions. Teachers were called upon to respond quickly to the needs of K-12 students. They had to learn how to navigate online learning systems w...
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Correction: A case study of student development across project-based learning units in middle school chemistry
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Publisher Correction: “It’s all in the moment”: a mixed-methods study of elementary science teacher adaptiveness following professional development on knowledge generation approaches
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