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Direct linkCherbow, Kevin; McNeill, Katherine L. – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2022
Background: Teachers need to make sense of curricular materials and design instruction to ensure students will be positioned to pursue their own arc of inquiry in curriculum enactment. Whole-group discussions are crucial opportunities for curricular sensemaking, yet planning and enactment can be challenging. Methods: We used a single, revelatory…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Curriculum Development, Student Participation, Group Discussion
Lowell, Benjamin R.; Cherbow, Kevin; McNeill, Katherine L. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2022
A key goal of recent reforms in science education has been to support students' collective sensemaking, in which they work together to understand a natural phenomenon. This work is often done during class discussions, but facilitating those discussions is challenging. In this study, we used a framework of three discussion types to investigate how…
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), Science Instruction, Middle School Teachers, Comprehension
Lowell, Benjamin R.; McNeill, Katherine L. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2023
Reforms such as the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) call for substantial change in teacher practice such as instruction that is more phenomenon-based, three-dimensional, supportive of student epistemic agency, and coherent from the student perspective. Such change requires ongoing support in the form of aligned curricular materials and…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Attitude Change, Science Teachers, Faculty Development
González-Howard, María; McNeill, Katherine L. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2019
Abstract For students to meaningfully engage in science practices, substantive changes need to occur to deeply entrenched instructional approaches, particularly those related to classroom discourse. Because teachers are critical in establishing how students are permitted to interact in the classroom, it is imperative to examine their role in…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Classroom Communication, Science Process Skills, Teacher Expectations of Students
Lowell, Benjamin R.; Cherbow, Kevin; McNeill, Katherine L. – Science Education, 2021
The adoption of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) requires many teachers to drastically change their classroom instruction. Curricular materials offer a tool to support this transition, but there are questions about the degree to which available curricula truly reflect the shifts required by the NGSS. This study proposes a framework of…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Science Education, Science Curriculum, Alignment (Education)
González-Howard, María; McNeill, Katherine L. – Science Education, 2020
The various types of interactions that students carry out when engaged in scientific argumentation function together to move forward developing ideas and support sensemaking. As such, incorporating argumentation in classroom instruction holds promise for supporting students in developing and acting with an epistemic agency, being positioned, and…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Epistemology, Criticism, Science Education
González-Howard, María; McNeill, Katherine L.; Marco-Bujosa, Lisa M.; Proctor, C. Patrick – International Journal of Science Education, 2017
Reform initiatives around the world are reconceptualising science education by stressing student engagement in science practices. Yet, science practices are language-intensive, requiring students to have strong receptive and productive language proficiencies. It is critical to address these rigorous language demands to ensure equitable learning…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, English Language Learners, Case Studies, Science Instruction
Edelson, Daniel C.; Reiser, Brian J.; McNeill, Katherine L.; Mohan, Audrey; Novak, Michael; Mohan, Lindsey; Affolter, Renee; McGill, Tara A. W.; Buck Bracey, Zoë E.; Deutch Noll, Jamie; Kowalski, Susan M.; Novak, Dawn; Lo, Abraham S.; Landel, Carolyn; Krumm, Andrew; Penuel, William R.; Van Horne, Katie; González-Howard, María; Suárez, Enrique – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2021
OpenSciEd is an ambitious effort to implement the vision of the "Framework for K-12 Science Education" and the "Next Generation Science Standards" broadly across the United States. The premise of OpenSciEd is that high quality instructional materials can play a critical role in transforming science teaching and learning at a…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Evidence Based Practice, Instructional Materials, Educational Change
Loper, Suzanna; McNeill, Katherine L.; Goss, Megan – Advances in STEM Education, 2018
Science teachers need support in developing pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) around science practices such as argumentation. Educative curriculum materials (ECMs) have great potential as a tool to support teachers' PCK development, particularly for in-service teachers. In this chapter, we describe an intervention in which we developed and…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Material Development, Middle School Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Cherbow, Kevin; McKinley, Megan T.; McNeill, Katherine L.; Lowenhaupt, Rebecca – Science Education, 2020
Recent reforms in science education advocate for a vision of learning where students "figure out" science ideas through engagement in science practices. Consequently, there have been significant efforts to engage K-12 students in the science practices. However, less research attention has been given to understand how this…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Science Education
McNeill, Katherine L.; González-Howard, María; Katsh-Singer, Rebecca; Loper, Suzanna – Science Education, 2017
Argumentation, a key epistemic practice in science, engages students in socially constructing knowledge claims using evidence. However, teachers need support in integrating argumentation into classroom instruction. We examined teachers' enactments of an educative science curriculum and their curricular decision making for argumentation. Ten middle…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Science Curriculum, Persuasive Discourse, Epistemology
McNeill, Katherine L.; Marco-Bujosa, Lisa M.; González-Howard, María; Loper, Suzanna – International Journal of Science Education, 2018
Fidelity of implementation (FOI) has received attention in calls for funding and research; however, there are numerous ways of conceptualising and measuring this construct. We argue that this conceptualisation is important for recent reform efforts focused on science practices. Consequently, we explored FOI in the context of the enactment of a…
Descriptors: Fidelity, Program Implementation, Educational Change, Scientific Principles
Lowenhaupt, Rebecca; McNeill, Katherine L. – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2019
Purpose: In U.S. public schools, principals must implement reforms that require instructional leadership across subjects, though little is known about subject-specific supervision. Methods: Through interviews with 26 K-8 principals, we examine instructional leadership for science. Findings: Our findings showed that science supervision occurred…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Public Schools, Principals, Administrator Attitudes
Marco-Bujosa, Lisa M.; McNeill, Katherine L.; González-Howard, María; Loper, Suzanna – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2017
Educative curriculum materials provide teachers with authentic opportunities to learn new skills and practices. Yet, research shows teachers use curriculum in different ways for different reasons, and these modifications could undermine the learning goals of the curriculum. Little research, however, has examined the variation in teacher use of…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Science Curriculum, Case Studies, Instructional Materials
McNeill, Katherine L.; González-Howard, María; Katsh-Singer, Rebecca; Loper, Suzanna – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2016
Despite the recent emphasis on science practices, little work has focused on teachers' knowledge of these key learning goals. The development of high quality assessments for teachers' pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) of science practices, such as argumentation, is important to better assess the needs of teachers and to develop supportive…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Persuasive Discourse, Middle School Teachers, Science Teachers
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