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The Use of the Constructivist Teaching Sequence (CTS) to Facilitate Changes in the Visual Representations of Fifth-Grade Elementary School Students: A Case Study on Teaching Heat Convection Concepts
Most primary school students, although they grasp the scientific concepts of heat convection at the macroscopic level, commonly fail to visualize...
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Computational thinking for the digital age: a systematic review of tools, pedagogical strategies, and assessment practices
Computational thinking (CT) has received growing interest as a research subject in the last decade, with research contributions attempting to...
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A conceptual framework for teaching computational thinking in personalized OERs
Interests towards teaching programming skills have risen recently in the realm of computing education. Learning how to program not only enables...
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Promoting pupils’ computational thinking skills and self-efficacy: a problem-solving instructional approach
Computational thinking (CT) is a fundamental skill and an analytical ability that children in the twenty-first century should develop. Students...
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Comparing learners’ knowledge, behaviors, and attitudes between two instructional modes of computer programming in secondary education
BackgroundUnplugged programming is proved to be an effective means to foster the learner-centered programming learning. In addition to the final...
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Secondary Science Student Teachers’ Use of Verbal Discourse to Communicate Scientific Ideas in Their Field Placement Classrooms
Student teachers struggle to identify themselves as teachers in their field placement during their student teaching year, and some of the difficulty...
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Educating New Secondary School Physics Teachers
In terms of structure, initial teacher education (ITE) in England is complex. Most new teachers who intend to work in the secondary sector (teaching...
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Using mixed methods evaluation to assess the feasibility of online clinical training in evidence based interventions: a case study of cognitive behavioural treatment for low back pain
BackgroundCognitive behavioural (CB) approaches are effective in the management of non-specific low back pain (LBP). We developed the CB Back Skills...
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Implementation of Standards-Based Curriculum by Chemistry Teachers: From Curriculum Materials to Teaching Practice
As we know, a large number of the standards-based curriculum materials have been developed around the world. This paper aimed to explore the degree...
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Theoretical Framework
In the first chapter of this theoretical framework, I will address the role of science within education in general. It provides the theoretical...
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Young Children Sampling Sustainable Learning as Healthier Me
In this chapter, we consider educational practices that lead children’s authentic learning. We focus these ideas on children about three to five...
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How to Learn in and from the Chemistry Laboratory
Laboratory activities have long had a distinctive and central role in the chemistry curriculum as a means of making sense of the natural world. For...
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Endogenous Production of Order in Science Lessons
The interests of ethnomethodological research are directed to provide, through detailed analyses, that account-able phenomena are through and through...
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The Effect of the No Child Left Behind Accountability Mechanisms on Middle School Mathematics Teaching and Student Performance
Reform efforts in education have increasingly emphasized standards and accountability as the pathway to achieve educational outcomes. The Obama...
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Curriculum Studies in Mexico: The Exchanges, the Concepts, the Practices
As in my study of curriculum studies in South Africa (Pinar 2010) and Brazil (Pinar 2011), I summarize the exchanges between the participating...
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Science Education As a Research Field Within a Domain of Enquiry
Education is a relatively recent discipline that is centrally concerned with teaching and learning. Science Education as an identifiable field with a...
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The Development, Validation, and Application of a Science Curriculum Delivery Evaluation Questionnaire for Francophone-Minority Settings
The study described in this paper examines the procedures used in the identification of the broad and complex factors influencing science curriculum...
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User Adaptation in Supporting Exploration Tasks in Virtual Learning Environments
In the increasing heterogeneous student population in both the academic and corporate training environments, the need of a customized instructional...
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Two Possible Pedagogies for Teaching Higher Order Thinking: Transmission of Information Versus Knowledge Construction
Teachers’ thinking in the context of instruction of higher order thinking skills is naturally embedded in their general thinking about teaching and...
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Children talk about learning to draw
This study investigates four- to six-year-old children’s conceptions of learning, by applying the lexicometric method to their oral responses to...