This study examined kindergarten teachers' attitudes toward and confidence with
implementing integrated STEM education in early childhood classroom settings. Data were …

The purpose of this study was to examine the predictive effects of inquiry‐based and teacher‐
directed instructional practices on students' attitudes toward science and science …

To help students build twenty-first century learning skills, teachers must have reasonable
perceptions about twenty-first century learning. To investigate Chinese teachers' perceptions …

The term “environmental education” is now approaching 60 years old and is well
established in education circles. There are journals, handbooks, curricula, and associations …

At the conclusion of the fi rst chapter on rural science education (Oliver, 2007a) for the
previous Handbook of Research on Science Education, a question was posed to readers in …

Scotland is one of several countries to have recently implemented a new national curriculum
to highlight 21st century educational priorities. Teachers have been mandated to follow the …

This chapter explores nature of science (NOS) representations in Australian junior
secondary school science textbooks, within the topic of genetics. It outlines a new analytical …

Social constructivism has been increasingly studied and implemented in science school
education. Nevertheless, there is a lack of holistic studies on the implementation of social …

Based on self-determination theory and achievement goal theory, this study provided a
serial multiple mediation model that examined how students' perceptions of teacher …

This paper provides a systematic review of instruments that have the potential to measure
the quality of project-based science and technology (S&T) learning environments in …