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  1. Energy conservation is a fundamental concept in physics and across the sciences as it provides a lens for investigating a wide range of phenomena. Research into energy learning progressions has shown that a ma...

    Authors: Marcus Kubsch, Sebastian Opitz, Jeffrey Nordine, Knut Neumann, David Fortus and Joseph Krajcik

    Citation: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research 2021 3:2

    Content type: Research

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  2. Studies that investigated the relations between the environment and students’ motivation to engage with science have typically looked at the state of students’ motivation at a given time and its relations with th...

    Authors: David Fortus and Israel Touitou

    Citation: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research 2021 3:1

    Content type: Research

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  3. One of the most fundamental understandings within biology is evolution, yet often ascribed as one of the most misunderstood scientific concepts by the American public. Despite not being explicitly mentioned in...

    Authors: Rebecca L. Hite

    Citation: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research 2020 2:11

    Content type: Research

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  4. Although there have been many investigations of the social, motivational, and emotional aspects of conceptual change, there have been few studies investigating the intersection of these factors with cognitive ...

    Authors: Felicity McLure, Mihye Won and David F. Treagust

    Citation: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research 2020 2:10

    Content type: Research

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  5. The Socioscientific Issue (SSI) framework was applied to explore how a team of two teachers navigated SSI cases as students in a STEM education graduate program. Using a case study approach, we found a connect...

    Authors: Joseph Johnson, Augusto Z. Macalalag Jr and Julie Dunphy

    Citation: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research 2020 2:9

    Content type: Research

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  6. This article discusses the socioscientific issue of obesity in relation to citizenship and democratic politics. It is structured in three parts: a) a theoretical part that elaborates on health as an individual...

    Authors: Claes Malmberg, Anders Urbas and Tomas Nilson

    Citation: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research 2020 2:8

    Content type: Research

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  7. In teaching laboratories, scientific reasoning and argumentation are often taught in concert so students are provided opportunities to formulate a more nuanced understanding of science-as-practice and science ...

    Authors: Justin Robert McFadden and Linda Fuselier

    Citation: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research 2020 2:7

    Content type: Research

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  8. In this case study we investigated how differences in the achievement goal orientations of a high school biology teacher and her 9th grade (14 years old) student led to tensions between them in their perspecti...

    Authors: David Fortus and Limor Daphna

    Citation: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research 2020 2:6

    Content type: Research

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  9. To make informed decisions has been acknowledged as an essential ability to negotiate socioscientific issues. However, many young people show an inadequate understanding of how to make well-informed decisions,...

    Authors: Carola Garrecht, Marc Eckhardt, Tim Niclas Höffler and Ute Harms

    Citation: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research 2020 2:5

    Content type: Research

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  10. The current study explored how a STEM coach supported an elementary teacher during the implementation of an integrated curriculum that culminated with an engineering design challenge. The findings of the case ...

    Authors: Justin McFadden and Gillian Roehrig

    Citation: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research 2020 2:4

    Content type: Research

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  11. Student-instructor interactions have an influence on student achievement and perceptions of learning. In college and university settings, large introductory STEM courses are increasingly including Peer-Led Tea...

    Authors: Christina I. Winterton, Ryan D. P. Dunk and Jason R. Wiles

    Citation: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research 2020 2:3

    Content type: Research

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  12. 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.

    Citation: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research 2020 2:2

    Content type: Position paper

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  13. 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

    Citation: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research 2020 2:1

    Content type: Research

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  14. 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

    Citation: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research 2019 1:16

    Content type: Research

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  15. 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

    Citation: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research 2019 1:14

    Content type: Review

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  16. 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

    Citation: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research 2019 1:15

    Content type: Position paper

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  17. 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

    Citation: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research 2019 1:13

    Content type: Position paper

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  18. 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

    Citation: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research 2019 1:12

    Content type: Position paper

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  19. 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

    Citation: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research 2019 1:11

    Content type: Position paper

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  20. 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

    Citation: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research 2019 1:10

    Content type: Position paper

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  21. 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

    Citation: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research 2019 1:9

    Content type: Position paper

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  22. 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

    Citation: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research 2019 1:8

    Content type: Position paper

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  23. 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

    Citation: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research 2019 1:7

    Content type: Position paper

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  24. 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

    Citation: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research 2019 1:6

    Content type: Position paper

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  25. 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

    Citation: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research 2019 1:5

    Content type: Position paper

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  27. 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

    Citation: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research 2019 1:3

    Content type: Position paper

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  28. 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

    Citation: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research 2019 1:2

    Content type: Position paper

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