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  1. 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 Published on:

  2. 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
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  3. 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
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  4. 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
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  5. 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
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  6. 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
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  7. 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
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  8. 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
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  9. 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
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  10. 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
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  11. 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 Published on:

  12. 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
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  13. 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
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  14. 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 Published on:

  15. 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 Published on:

  16. 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 Published on:

  17. 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 Published on:

  18. 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 Published on:

  19. 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 Published on:

  20. 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 Published on:

  21. 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 Published on:

  22. 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 Published on:

  23. 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 Published on:

  24. 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 Published on:

  26. 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 Published on:

  27. 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 Published on:
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