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Opportunities and challenges of China’s inquiry-based education reform in middle and high schools: Perspectives of science teachers and teacher educators
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; National Science Council, Taiwan ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2005-01)
Consistent with international trends, an emergent interest in inquiry-based science teaching and learning in K-12 schools is also occurring in China. This study investigates the possibilities for and the barriers to enactment ...
Guiding explanation construction by children at the entry points of learning progressions
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2012-02)
Policy documents in science education suggest that even at the earliest years of formal schooling, students are capable of constructing scientific explanations about focal content. Nonetheless, few research studies provide ...
A conceptual guide to natural history museum visitors' understanding of evolution
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2010-03)
Museum visitors are an ideal population for assessing the persistence of the conceptual barriers that make it difficult to grasp Darwinian evolutionary theory. In comparison with other members of the public, they are more ...
Real-World Applications and Instructional Representations Among Prospective Elementary Science Teachers
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005-12)
This paper explores new elementary teachers' instructional representations and how these are related to their science subject matter knowledge. One pair of prospective elementary teachers studied here exhibited a ...
Development and Evaluation of an Inquiry-Based Elementary Science Teacher Education Program Reflecting Current Reform Movements
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005-08)
The National Science Education Standards (National Research Council 1996, National science education standards . Washington, DC: National Academy Press) and various other national and state documents call for teachers who ...
Developing a hypothetical multi-dimensional learning progression for the nature of matter
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2010-08)
We describe efforts toward the development of a hypothetical learning progression (HLP) for the growth of grade 7–14 students' models of the structure, behavior and properties of matter, as it relates to nanoscale science ...
Urban schools' teachers enacting project-based science
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2006-09)
What teaching practices foster inquiry and promote students to learn challenging subject matter in urban schools? Inquiry-based instruction and successful inquiry learning and teaching in project-based science (PBS) were ...
Supporting Science Teacher Learning: The Role of Educative Curriculum Materials
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-08)
Re‐conceptualization of scientific literacy in South Korea for the 21st century
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2011-08)
As the context of human life expands from personal to global, a new vision of scientific literacy is needed. Based on a synthesis of the literature and the findings of an online survey of South Korean and US secondary ...
Investigating teacher learning supports in high school biology curricular programs to inform the design of educative curriculum materials
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2009-11)
Reform efforts have emphasized the need to support teachers' learning about reform-oriented practices. Educative curriculum materials are one potential vehicle for promoting teacher learning about these practices. Educative ...