'Relevance'is one of the key terms related to reforms in the teaching and learning of science.
It is often used by policy-makers, curriculum developers, science education researchers and …

This paper aimed to review, and assess the'effectiveness' of the attempts undertaken to
improve prospective and practising science teachers' conceptions of nature of science …

The chapter sets out the agenda for the entire book. The primary aim is to illustrate the
context for the articulation of how “Nature of Science”(NOS) can be conceptualized and …

Desde hace unas décadas la investigación basada en el diseño de Secuencias de
Enseñanza-Aprendizaje se ha convertido en una línea de investigación cada vez más …

Epistemic practices are the socially organized and interactionally accomplished ways that
members of a group propose, communicate, assess, and legitimize knowledge claims …

Discipline-Based Education Research: Understanding and Improving Learning in Undergraduate
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In this paper, we contend that what to teach about scientific reasoning has been bedeviled
by a lack of clarity about the construct. Drawing on the insights emerging from a cognitive …

The National Science Foundation funded a synthesis study on the status, contributions, and
future direction of discipline-based education research (DBER) in physics, biological …

This young graduate student's excitement echoes the themes and claims developed in this
chapter. The message offers a glimpse into the nature of earth science inquiry. The …

What is engineering? What do engineers do? How is engineering related to, but distinct
from, science? These questions all relate to the nature of engineering (NOE), and as …