Cognitive and Affective Aspects in Science Education Research: Selected Papers from the ESERA 2015 Conference

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Introduction....Pages 1-12
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Visualizing the Nature of Science: Beyond Textual Pieces to Holistic Images in Science Education....Pages 15-30
Using Assessment Materials to Stimulate Improvements in Teaching and Learning....Pages 31-40
Chemistry Teachers’ Perceptions and Attitudes Towards Creativity in Chemistry Class....Pages 41-54
“Creating Creativity”: Improving Pre-service Teachers’ Conceptions About Creativity in Chemistry....Pages 55-68
Is Topic-Specific PCK Unique to Teachers?....Pages 69-85
Pedagogical Content Knowledge and Constructivist Teaching: A Hot Potato’s Last Straw in Swiss Science Classrooms....Pages 87-100
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Quality of SSI Scenarios Designed by Science Teachers....Pages 103-116
The Use of Drama in Socio-Scientific Inquiry-Based Learning....Pages 117-126
Useful Plants as Potential Flagship Species to Counteract Plant Blindness....Pages 127-140
Digital Videos of Experiments Produced by Students: Learning Possibilities....Pages 141-153
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Making Sense of ‘Making Sense’ in Science Education: A Microgenetic Multiple Case Study....Pages 157-166
Student Difficulties with Graphs in Different Contexts....Pages 167-178
Students’ Mental Models of Human Nutrition from a Literature Review....Pages 179-189
The PISA Science Assessment for 2015 and the Implications for Science Education: Uses and Abuses....Pages 191-203
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Chemistry Teachers’ Professional Knowledge, Classroom Action, and Students’ Learning: The Relevance of Technical Language....Pages 207-218
Analyzing Teachers’ Discursive Participation in Co-taught Science-and-English CLIL Classrooms....Pages 219-231
Multilingual Contexts: A New Positioning for STEM Teaching/Learning....Pages 233-242
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Models and Modelling in Pre-service Teacher Education: Why We Need Both....Pages 245-261
Designing a Course for Enhancing Prospective Teachers’ Inquiry Competence....Pages 263-278
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Investigating Science Teachers’ Transformations of Inquiry Aspects When Implementing Research-Based Teaching-Learning Sequences....Pages 279-293
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Cross-Curricular Goals and Raising the Relevance of Science Education....Pages 297-307
Integrating Mathematics into Science: Design, Development and Evaluation of a Curriculum Model....Pages 309-321
Fostering European Students’ STEM Vocational Choices....Pages 323-338
The Notion of Praxeology as a Tool to Analyze Educational Process in Science Museums....Pages 339-355
Expanding the Scope of Science Education: An Activity-Theoretical Perspective....Pages 357-370