It is now widely agreed in many countries around the world that teaching is among the most
important factors in students' achievement, in school success more broadly, and in the …

Providing support focused on real challenges is critical in retaining highly qualified new
science teachers, but the field lacks a systematic description of these teachers' needs. The …

Helping students develop informed views of nature of science (NOS) has been and
continues to be a central goal for kindergarten through Grade 12 (K–12) science education …

The title of this chapter deliberately includes two terms-scientific literacy and science literacy,
abbreviated together as SL. The literature on SL has mushroomed in the past two decades …

An important distinction can be made between the science, technology, and society (STS)
movement of past years and the domain of socioscientific issues (SSI). STS education as …

This study investigated the influence of an explicit and reflective inquiry‐oriented compared
with an implicit inquiry‐oriented instructional approach on sixth graders' understandings of …

This position paper addresses some enduring, as well as emerging issues, associated with
the crucial question of benchmarking understandings about nature of science (NOS) for …

As the context of human life expands from personal to global, a new vision of scientific
literacy is needed. Based on a synthesis of the literature and the findings of an online survey …

Much has been written about how effective nature of science instruction must have a
significant explicit and reflective character. However, while explicitly drawing students' …

Findings generated by recent research in science education, international debate on the
guiding purposes of science education and the nature of scientific and technological literacy …