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Stieff, Mike – Science Education, 2011
Imagistic reasoning appears to be a critical strategy for learning and problem solving in the sciences, particularly chemistry; however, little is known about how students use imagistic reasoning on genuine assessment tasks in chemistry. The present study employed a think-aloud protocol to explore when and how students use imagistic reasoning for…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Organic Chemistry, Problem Solving, Science Instruction
Guerra-Ramos, Maria Teresa; Ryder, Jim; Leach, John – Science Education, 2010
There is evidence that science teachers give naive responses to direct questions about the nature of science. However, there is also evidence that such responses underpredict the more sophisticated knowledge that teachers may use in classroom situations. The purpose of this study was to characterize the informal ideas used by teachers in…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Scientific Principles, Science Teachers, Science Instruction
Koballa, Thomas R., Jr.; Kittleson, Julie; Bradbury, Leslie U.; Dias, Michael J. – Science Education, 2010
Framed by sociocultural theory, the purpose of the study was to understand the cultural tools used by science teachers when leaning to mentor and how tool use may lead to the construction of new understandings about mentoring. The participants were 37 experienced teachers enrolled in a federally funded science-specific mentor preparation program.…
Descriptors: Mentors, Computer Mediated Communication, Science Teachers, Science Instruction
Forbes, Cory T.; Davis, Elizabeth A. – Science Education, 2010
Current science education reform efforts highlight the importance of engaging students in scientifically oriented questions as a central dimension of inquiry-based elementary science. However, elementary teachers, particularly beginning teachers, must often overcome a variety of challenges to engage their students in reform-minded,…
Descriptors: Investigations, Educational Change, Beginning Teachers, Curriculum Development
Pramling, Niklas – Science Education, 2009
This article is about the role of metaphor in scientific knowledge formation and reasoning. These issues are studied by means of an example of the theory of evolution through natural selection. The premise is that the theory of evolution contains a set of problems regarding metaphor. A second premise is that these problems have to be handled in…
Descriptors: Evolution, Figurative Language, Science Achievement, Science Education
Bradbury, Leslie Upson – Science Education, 2010
Educative mentoring is an idea developed by Feiman-Nemser [Feiman-Nemser, S. (1998). Teachers as teacher educators. "European Journal of Teacher Education," 21(1), 63-74; (2001). Helping novices learn to teach: Lessons from an exemplary support teacher. "Journal of Teacher Education," 52(1), 17-30] to reflect current conceptions of mentoring that…
Descriptors: Mentors, Educational Change, Science Teachers, Beginning Teachers
Donnelly, Lisa A.; Sadler, Troy D. – Science Education, 2009
Previous literature has documented how teachers perceive both advantages and disadvantages associated with standards-based reform. These teacher perceptions may be connected to classroom practices in terms of the extent to which standards are utilized by individual teachers. The purpose of this study was to identify how secondary science teachers…
Descriptors: State Standards, Science Teachers, Accountability, Faculty Development
Dotger, Sharon; Dotger, Benjamin H.; Tillotson, John – Science Education, 2010
Discussing the teaching of evolution with concerned parents is a challenge to any science teacher. Using the medical education pedagogy of standardized individuals within the field of teacher education, this article addresses how preservice science teachers elected to verbally interact with standardized parents who questioned the teaching of…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Evolution, Science Teachers, Preservice Teachers
Nelson, Tamara Holmlund – Science Education, 2009
As professional learning communities (PLCs) are proliferating as a form of teacher professional development, it is important to understand what "PLC work" is and how it impacts teacher learning. This article reports on secondary science and mathematics teachers' participation in PLCs and engagement in collaborative inquiry. The PLC provided a…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Professional Development, Learning Activities
McDonald, Scott; Songer, Nancy Butler – Science Education, 2008
Translating written curricular materials into rich, complex, learning environments is an undertheorized area in science education. This study examines two critical cases of teachers enacting a technology-rich curriculum focused on the development of complex reasoning around biodiversity for fifth graders. Two elements emerged that significantly…
Descriptors: Biodiversity, Science Teachers, Science Education, Curriculum
Patchen, Terri; Cox-Petersen, Anne – Science Education, 2008
Classrooms across the United States increasingly find White teachers paired with ethnic minority students, but few of these teachers are prepared for the disparities such cultural integration presents. This is particularly true vis-a-vis science education. While classrooms have diversified, science instruction has not necessarily followed suit.…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Culturally Relevant Education, Access to Education, Teachers
Taylor, Amy R.; Jones, M. Gail; Broadwell, Bethany; Oppewal, Tom – Science Education, 2008
Although there have been numerous studies that indicate the benefits of teachers and students working with scientists, there is little research that documents scientists' views of science education, science teacher preparation, and the goals of science education. Furthermore, little is known about how scientists' views of science education may…
Descriptors: Creativity, Critical Thinking, Science Teachers, Accountability
Contextual Shifting: Teachers Emphasizing Students' Academic Identity to Promote Scientific Literacy
Reveles, John M.; Brown, Bryan A. – Science Education, 2008
This research presents a case study of two teachers' emphasis on students' academic identity as a means of facilitating their science literacy development. These cases support a theoretical position that deconstructs the notion of normative science literacy into its constitutive components: (a) being scientific and (b) appropriating its literate…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Figurative Language, Scientific Literacy, Classrooms
Ault, Charles R., Jr.; Dodick, Jeff – Science Education, 2010
For many decades, science educators have asked, "In what ways should learning the content of traditional subjects serve as the means to more general ends, such as understanding the nature of science or the processes of scientific inquiry?" Acceptance of these ends reduces the role of disciplinary context; the "Footprints Puzzle" and Oregon's…
Descriptors: Scientific Methodology, Scientific Principles, Observation, Inferences
Semken, Steven; Freeman, Carol Butler – Science Education, 2008
We teach earth, ecological, and environmental sciences in and about "places" imbued with meaning by human experience. Scientific understanding is but one of the many types of meanings that can accrue to a given place. People develop emotional attachments to meaningful places. The "sense of place," encompassing the meanings and…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Geology, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods