Contributions from Science Education Research

Front Matter....Pages I-XIX
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Interest in Science: Lessons and non-lessons from TIMSS and PISA....Pages 3-10
Research-based Innovative Units for Enhancing Student Cognitive Outcomes and Interest in Science....Pages 11-26
Girls and Physics: Dilemmas and Tensions....Pages 27-36
Front Matter....Pages 37-37
Contested Territory: The Actual and Potential Impact of Research on Teaching and Learning Science on Students’ Learning....Pages 39-57
Studying Science Teaching Practices in Relation to Learning: Time Scales of Teaching Phenomena....Pages 59-75
The Potential of Video Studies in Research on Teaching and Learning Science....Pages 77-89
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
Pedagogical Content Knowledge: What Does it Mean to Science Teachers?....Pages 93-105
Science Teachers’ PCK and Teaching Practice: Learning to Scaffold Students’ Open-inquiry Learning....Pages 107-118
Physics in Context – A program for Improving Physics Instruction in Germany....Pages 119-130
The Relationship of Capability Beliefs and Teaching Environments of New Danish Elementary Teachers of Science to Teaching Success....Pages 131-142
A Beginners’ Module of Integrated Natural Science for Secondary Teacher Students: The result of an Educational Reconstruction Process over Three Iterations....Pages 143-156
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
Learning Process Studies....Pages 159-171
Meaning Construction and Contextualization While Solving a Dynamics Task in the Laboratory....Pages 173-185
Development of a Model of Formative Assessment....Pages 187-198
Memorisation of Information from Scientific Movies....Pages 199-210
Front Matter....Pages 211-211
Micro-organisms: Everyday Knowledge Predates and Contrasts with School Knowledge....Pages 213-224
Using the Processes of Electrical Charge of Bodies as a Tool in the Assessment of University Students’ Learning in Electricity....Pages 225-236
Representation and Learning about Evaporation....Pages 237-248
Learning from the History and Philosophy of Science: Deficiencies in Teaching the Macroscopic Concepts of Substance and Chemical Change....Pages 249-259
Front Matter....Pages 261-261
Non-Formal Science Teaching and Learning....Pages 263-273
Front Matter....Pages 261-261
Adults’ Understanding of Analogy-based Exhibits in an Interactive Science Museum....Pages 275-287
The Puppets Project: Using Puppets to Promote Engagement and Talk in Science....Pages 289-296
Inquiring the Inquiry Laboratory in High School....Pages 297-306
Developing Students’ Views on the Nature of Science through Non-traditional Writing-to-Learn Experiences in the Science Classroom....Pages 307-318
Front Matter....Pages 319-319
Towards a Validated Conception of Scientific Models....Pages 321-332
The Development of Elementary Students’ Understanding of Complex Ecosystems Through a Model-Based Approach....Pages 333-345
Effects of Model-Based Teaching on the Durability of Pre-Service Physics Teachers’ Conceptions of Lunar Events....Pages 347-359
Learning and Teaching about Ecosystems Based on Systems Thinking and Modelling in an Authentic Practice....Pages 361-374
Front Matter....Pages 375-375
Argumentation and the Learning of Science....Pages 377-388
Students’ Argumentation in Group Discussions on a Socio-Scientific Issue....Pages 389-401
Exemplary Teaching of Argumentation: A Case Study of Two Science Teachers....Pages 403-415
What Can We Learn from a Study of Argumentation in the Students Answers and Group Discussion to Open Physics Problems?....Pages 417-431
Front Matter....Pages 433-433
Evaluating Students’ Multimedia Science Design Projects in the Elementary Classroom....Pages 435-449
Technology-Enhanced Collaborative Inquiry Learning: Four Approaches under Common Aspects....Pages 451-463
Visualizing the Quantum Atom....Pages 465-475
Evaluation of the Hypermedia Learning Environment “Physics for Medical Students” Within two Different Settings....Pages 477-487
The Role of Language in Learning Physics with Computer-based Multimedia....Pages 489-502
Back Matter....Pages 503-518