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Shiyu Xu; Michael J. Reiss; Wilton Lodge – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2025
This study introduces a Comprehensive Scientific Creativity Assessment (C-SCA) instrument and empirically tests its reliability and validity. While existing instruments to measure scientific creativity generally focus on a single dimension, such as divergent thinking, the C-SCA incorporates scientific knowledge, motivation in scientific creativity…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Science Process Skills, Creativity, Creative Thinking
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Leonie I. Johann; Fredrik K. H. Rusk; Michael J. Reiss; Jorge Groß – Journal of Biological Education, 2024
This study reports on the theoretical- and empirical-based design and evaluation of cell membrane biology learning activities within the Model of Educational Reconstruction and experiential realism. First, we designed analogy-based learning activities by considering students' and scientists' conceptions as described in the literature. Secondly, we…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Thinking Skills, Cytology, Molecular Biology
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Andy Markwick; Michael J. Reiss – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
The worrying decline in the status of primary school science in schools in England has been linked to low teacher confidence in teaching science and to schools being heavily focused on achievement in English and mathematics. This article reports on a novel professional learning strategy that was provided for 23 primary science leaders over five…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Self Efficacy, Teacher Leadership, Faculty Development
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Andy Markwick; Michael J. Reiss – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2024
Today's school students are faced with complex and harmful global challenges that they will need to address. The ability to think critically and creatively, to work in interdisciplinary teams and to understand the importance of a healthy planet for all life will be key to success. Education, including school education, has a major role in helping…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Curriculum Development, Teaching Methods, Educational Change
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Andy Markwick; Michael J. Reiss – Curriculum Journal, 2025
Today's school students are inheriting complex and harmful global challenges that are potentially irreversible and which they will need to address. The ability to think critically and creatively, to work in interdisciplinary teams and to understand the importance of a healthy planet for all life will be needed for success. Education has a major…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Curriculum Development, Global Approach, Teaching Methods
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Katherine Maslowski; Rina Biswakarma; Michael J. Reiss; Joyce Harper – Journal of Biological Education, 2024
Sex and fertility education is essential to enable people to make informed choices. School is an important source of education, so we examined the current curriculum relating to sex and fertility education in England and compared it with students' accounts of their experiences. We analysed the Awarding Body GCSE science and biology specifications…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Pregnancy, Secondary School Students, Biochemistry