This state-of-the art research Handbook provides a comprehensive, coherent, current synthesis of the empirical and theoretical research concerning teaching and learning in science and lays down a foundation upon which future research can be built. The contributors, all leading experts in their research areas, represent the international and gender diversity that exists in the science education research community. As a whole, the Handbook of Research on Science Education demonstrates that science education is alive and well and illustrates its vitality. It is an essential resource for the entire science education community, including veteran and emerging researchers, university faculty, graduate students, practitioners in the schools, and science education professionals outside of universities. The National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST) endorses the Handbook of Research on Science Education as an important and valuable synthesis of the current knowledge in the field of science education by leading individuals in the field. For more information on NARST, please visit: http://www.narst.org/.
Each volume in the 7-volume series The World of Science Education reviews research in a key region of the world.
This groundbreaking handbook offers a contemporary and thorough review of research relating directly to the preparation, induction, and career long professional learning of K-12 science teachers.
PACKETS: A guidebook for inservice mathematics teacher development. Lexington, MA: Heath. Katims, N., Lesh, R., Hole, B., & Hoover, M. (1994b). PACKETS: A program for integrating learning and performance assessment for mathematics.
A survey of research in science education, compiled by researchers in this field. The handbook explores a wide spectrum of areas crucial to science education. Part I covers science teacher...
Thus, learners are disempowered when they do not engage in high-quality multicultural science curricula that impart ... children in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) career opportunities” (NSTA 2000, 2nd para).
(2009). Focus in high school mathematics: Reasoning and sense making. Reston, VA: NCTM. National Research Council (NRC). (2011). Successful K-12 STEM education: Identifying effective approaches in Science, Technology, Engineering, ...
This groundbreaking handbook offers a contemporary and thorough review of research relating directly to the preparation, induction, and career long professional learning of K-12 science teachers.
The chapters in this edition are reviews of research in science education and retain the strong international flavor of the project.
Gatekeeper of Science (1997); William Crookes and the Commercialization of Science (2008); and The Case of the Poisonous Socks. Tales from Chemistry (2011). Edgar W. Jenkins is emeritus professor of science education policy 2381 73 ...
The Handbook of Research on Integrating Computer Science and Computational Thinking in K-12 Education is a collection of innovative research on the methods and applications of computer science curriculum development within primary and ...