This article offers a review of the major literature about attitudes to science and its
implications over the past 20 years. It argues that the continuing decline in numbers …

Researchers, educators, and policymakers are focusing more on student engagement as
the key to addressing low achievement, student boredom and alienation, and high dropout …

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, we know a great deal about the teaching
processes that occur in classrooms, including the teaching processes that can improve …

Juan Miguel Campanario, Algunas posibilidades del artículo de investigación como recurso
didáctico orientado a cuestionar ideas inadecuadas sobre la ciencia, Enseñanza de las …

Pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) has been embraced by many of the recent
educational reform documents as a way of describing the knowledge possessed by expert …

Research on student attitudes and aspirations towards science has been an increasing
focus of concern in the past decade. Much of this is driven by a growing concern about …

'Science as inquiry'is a key content standard in the National Science Education Standards to
be enacted by US science teachers. This paper is the result of a study that was conducted in …

This study examined the pedagogical content knowledge of experienced and novice
chemical demonstrators. It specifically delineates the nature of the declarative knowledge …

Student attitudes toward science have received constant research attention for a number of
decades, for reasons that have changed over time. Science curriculum outcomes have for …

This study used base‐year data from a large and nationally representative data base (NELS:
88) to identify some important explanatory factors for gender differences in science …