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Common Guidelines for Education Research and Development
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Institute of Education Sciences, 2013
In January 2011, a Joint Committee of representatives from the U.S. Department of Education (ED) and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) began work to establish cross-agency guidelines for improving the quality, coherence, and pace of knowledge development in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education. Although the…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Research and Development, Intervention, Educational Improvement
Student Content Knowledge Increases after Participation in a Hands-on Biotechnology Intervention
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Bigler, Amber M.; Hanegan, Nikki L. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2011
Implementing biotechnology education through hands-on teaching methods should be considered by secondary biology teachers. This study is an experimental research design to examine increased student content knowledge in biotechnology after a hands-on biotechnology intervention. The teachers from both school groups participated in, Project Crawfish,…
Descriptors: Research Design, Intervention, Biology, Biotechnology
History of Science as an Instructional Context: Student Learning in Genetics and Nature of Science
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Kim, Sun Young; Irving, Karen E. – Science & Education, 2010
This study (1) explores the effectiveness of the contextualized history of science on student learning of nature of science (NOS) and genetics content knowledge (GCK), especially interrelationships among various genetics concepts, in high school biology classrooms; (2) provides an exemplar for teachers on how to utilize history of science in…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Concept Mapping, Research Design