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Planning and carrying out investigations: an entry to learning and to teacher professional development around NGSS science and engineering practices

The shift from science inquiry to science practices as recommended in the US reports A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas and the Next Generation Science Standa...

Authors: Richard A Duschl and Rodger W Bybee

Understanding of high-achieving science students on the nature of science

Although teaching nature of science (NOS) has been continually emphasized in many major reform efforts in science education, researchers claim that students do not possess adequate views of NOS. Insufficient u...

Authors: Ora Kahana and Tali Tal

Diffusion of research-based instructional strategies: the case of SCALE-UP

Many innovative teaching strategies have been developed under the assumption that documenting successful student learning outcomes at the development site is enough to spread the innovation successfully to sec...

Authors: Kathleen T Foote, Xaver Neumeyer, Charles Henderson, Melissa H Dancy and Robert J Beichner

Mathematics and biology teachers’ tacit views of the knowledge required for teaching: varying relationships between CK and PCK

The knowledge that is required for teaching includes subject matter content knowledge (CK) and pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). Although CK and PCK are distinct components of the teachers’ knowledge, the d...

Authors: Ronit Rozenszajn and Anat Yarden

Exploring the dynamics of organizational learning: identifying the decision chains science and math faculty use to plan and teach undergraduate courses

The field of STEM education is increasingly focusing on processes of individual, cultural, and organization-level change in postsecondary institutions, yet current approaches tend to focus on individual levera...

Authors: Matthew T Hora and Anne-Barrie Hunter

Meaningful statistics in professional practices as a bridge between mathematics and science: an evaluation of a design research project

Creating coherence between school subjects mathematics and science and making these school subjects meaningful are still topical challenges. This study investigates how students make meaningful connections bet...

Authors: Adri Dierdorp, Arthur Bakker, Jan A van Maanen and Harrie MC Eijkelhof

Studying technology-based strategies for enhancing motivation in mathematics

During the middle school years, students frequently show significant declines in motivation toward school in general and mathematics in particular. One way in which researchers have sought to spark students’ i...

Authors: Jon R Star, Jason A Chen, Megan W Taylor, Kelley Durkin, Chris Dede and Theodore Chao

Meteorology meets engineering: an interdisciplinary STEM module for middle and early secondary school students

Given the continued need to educate the public on both the meteorological and engineering hazards posed by the severe winds of a tornado, an interdisciplinary science, technology, engineering, and mathematics ...

Authors: Bradford S Barrett, Angela L Moran and John E Woods

The twenty-third ICMI study: primary mathematics study on whole numbers

A new study on the teaching and learning of whole number arithmetic in primary school and pre-school will be conducted by the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI). The study is organized...

Authors: Sybilla Beckmann

Investigation about representations used in teaching to prevent misconceptions regarding inverse proportionality

A major problem in teaching science is the overcoming of misconceptions. Reif found a procedure specifying a science concept. Neglect of this procedure can induce misconceptions. To find what can prevent misco...

Authors: Matthias R Risch

A comparative analysis of the relationship between learning styles and mathematics performance

As an effort to account for disparities in mathematics performance between American and East Asian middle school students, the present research aims to compare the relationship between learning styles (competi...

Authors: Vania J Ma and Xin Ma

Developing a computer-based assessment of complex problem solving in Chemistry

Complex problem-solving competence is regarded as a key construct in science education. But due to the necessity of using interactive and intransparent assessment procedures, appropriate measures of the constr...

Authors: Ronny Scherer, Jenny Meßinger-Koppelt and Rüdiger Tiemann

International Journal of STEM Education - a platform to promote STEM education and research worldwide

Authors: Yeping Li