Contributions from Science Education Research

508 Pages·2007·12.886 MB·English

by  Peter J. Fensham (auth.), Roser Pintó, Digna Couso (eds.)

Contributions from Science Education Research
Contributions
from Science
Education Research
Edited by
Roser Pintó
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Digna Couso
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Contributors xi
Preface xvii
PART 1 STUDENTS’ INTEREST IN LEARNING SCIENCE
Chapter 1 Interest in Science: Lessons and Non-lessons from TIMSS
and PISA 3
Peter J. Fensham
Chapter 2 Research-based Innovative Units for Enhancing Student
Cognitive Outcomes and Interest in Science 11
David F. Treagust
Chapter 3 Girls and Physics: Dilemmas and Tensions 27
Elizabeth Whitelegg, Patricia Murphy and Christina Hart
PART 2 SCIENCE EDUCATION RESEARCH: NEW APPROACHES AND
LINKS TO PRACTICE
Chapter 4 Contested Territory: The Actual and Potential Impact of
Research on Teaching and Learning Science on Students’
Learning 39
John Leach
Chapter 5 Studying Science Teaching Practices in Relation to
Learning: Time Scales of Teaching Phenomena 59
Andrée Tiberghien and Christian Buty
Chapter 6 The Potential of Video Studies in Research on Teaching
and Learning Science 77
Maja Brückmann, Reinders Duit, Maike Tesch,
Hans Fischer, Alexander Kauertz, Thomas Reyer, Bernhard
Gerber, Birte Knierim and Peter Labudde
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PART 3 SCIENCE TEACHERS’ KNOWLEDGE, PRACTICE
AND EDUCATION
Chapter 7 Pedagogical Content Knowledge:
What Does it Mean to Science Teachers? 93
John Loughran, Amanda Berry and Pamela Mulhall
Chapter 8 Science Teachers’ PCK and Teaching Practice: Learning to
Scaffold Students’ Open-inquiry Learning 107
Onno de Jong and A. E. van der Valk
Chapter 9 Physics in Context – A program for Improving Physics
Instruction in Germany 119
Reinders Duit, Silke Mikelskis-Seifert
and Christoph T. Wodzinski
Chapter 10 The Relationship of Capability Beliefs and Teaching
Environments of New Danish Elementary Teachers of
Science to Teaching Success 131
Annemarie M. Andersen, Søren Dragsted, Robert H. Evans
and Helene Sørensen
Chapter 11 A Beginners’ Module of Integrated Natural Science for
Secondary Teacher Students: The result of an Educational
Reconstruction Process over Three Iterations 143
Albert Zeyer and Manuela Welzel
PART 4 LEARNING AND UNDERSTANDING SCIENCE
Chapter 12 Learning Process Studies 159
Hans Niedderer, Marion Budde, Damien Givry,
Dimitris Psillos and Andrée Tiberghien
Chapter 13 Meaning Construction and Contextualization While Solving
a Dynamics Task in the Laboratory 173
Carlos Reigosa and María P. Jiménez-Aleixandre
Chapter 14 Development of a Model of Formative Assessment 187
Terry Russell and Linda McGuigan
Chapter 15 Memorisation of Information from Scientific Movies 199
Bülent Pekdag˘ and Jean-François Le Maréchal
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PART 5 TEACHING AND LEARNING SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTS
Chapter 16 Micro-organisms: Everyday Knowledge Predates and
Contrasts with School Knowledge 213
Milena Bandiera
Chapter 17 Using the Processes of Electrical Charge of Bodies as a
Tool in the Assessment of University Students’ Learning
in Electricity 225
Jenaro Guisasola, José L. Zubimendi, José M. Almudí and
Mikel Ceberio
Chapter 18 Representation and Learning about Evaporation 237
Russell Tytler and Vaughan Prain
Chapter 19 Learning from the History and Philosophy of Science:
Deficiencies in Teaching the Macroscopic Concepts of
Substance and Chemical Change 249
M. Consuelo Domínguez-Sales, Carles Furió-Más
and Jenaro Guisasola
PART 6 INNOVATIVE TEACHING–LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
IN SCIENCE EDUCATION
Chapter 20 Non-Formal Science Teaching and Learning 263
Ivo Cˇáp
Chapter 21 Adults’ Understanding of Analogy-based Exhibits in an
Interactive Science Museum 275
Ana S. Afonso and John K. Gilbert
Chapter 22 The Puppets Project: Using Puppets to Promote
Engagement and Talk in Science 289
Stuart Naylor, Brenda Keogh, Brigid Downing,
Jane Maloney and Shirley Simon
Chapter 23 Inquiring the Inquiry Laboratory in High School 297
Mira Kipnis and Avi Hofstein
Chapter 24 Developing Students’ Views on the Nature of Science
through Non-traditional Writing-to-Learn Experiences in
the Science Classroom 307
Tili Wagner and Tamar Levin
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PART 7 MODELS AND MODELLING IN SCIENCE EDUCATION
Chapter 25 Towards a Validated Conception of Scientific Models 321
Jan H. van Driel and A.E. van der Valk
Chapter 26 The Development of Elementary Students’ Understanding
of Complex Ecosystems Through a Model-Based Approach 333
Marios Papaevripidou, Constantinos P. Constantinou
and Zacharias C. Zacharia
Chapter 27 Effects of Model-Based Teaching on the Durability of
Pre-ServicePhysicsTeachers’ConceptionsofLunarEvents 347
Feral Ogan-Bekiroglu
Chapter 28 Learning and Teaching about Ecosystems Based on
Systems Thinking and Modelling in an Authentic Practice 361
René Westra, Kerst Boersma, Arend J. Waarlo and Elwin
Savelsbergh
PART 8 DISCOURSE AND ARGUMENTATION IN SCIENCE
EDUCATION
Chapter 29 Argumentation and the Learning of Science 377
ClaudiavonAufschnaiter,SibelErduran,JonathanOsborne
and Shirley Simon
Chapter 30 Students’ Argumentation in Group Discussions on a
Socio-Scientific Issue 389
Virginie Albe
Chapter 31 Exemplary Teaching of Argumentation: A Case Study of
Two Science Teachers 403
Sibel Erduran and Zoubeida R. Dagher
Chapter 32 What Can We Learn from a Study of Argumentation in the
Students Answers and Group Discussion to Open Physics
Problems? 417
MarinaCastells,JuanEnciso,JosepM.Cerveró,PereLópez
and Modesto Cabellos
PART 9 TEACHING AND LEARNING SCIENCE USING MULTIMEDIA
AND COMPUTER TOOLS
Chapter 33 Evaluating Students’ Multimedia Science Design Projects
in the Elementary Classroom 435
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Yasmin B. Kafai and Katherine A. Muir Welsh
Chapter 34 Technology-enhanced Collaborative Inquiry Learning: Four
Approaches under Common Aspects 451
Thorsten Bell, Sascha Schanze, Wolfgang Gräber,
James D. Slotta, Doris Jorde, H. B. Berg, T. Strømme, Anja
Neumann, Sigmar-Olaf Tergan and Robert H. Evans
Chapter 35 Visualizing the Quantum Atom 465
A. Kontogeorgiou, J. Bellou, Tassos A. Mikropoulos
Chapter 36 Evaluation of the Hypermedia Learning Environment
“Physics for Medical Students” Within two Different
Settings 477
Heike Theyßen and Monika Hüther
Chapter 37 The Role of Language in Learning Physics with
Computer-based Multimedia 489
Thorid Rabe and Helmut F. Mikelskis
Author Index 503
Subject Index 511
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Ana S. Afonso University of Minho, Portugal
Virginie Albe Didactique des questions scientifiques, économiques et sociales
émergentes, Ecole Nationale de Formation Agronomique, France
José M. Almudí Department of Applied Physics, University of the Basque
Country, Spain
Annemarie M. Andersen The Danish University of Education, Denmark
Claudia von Aufschnaiter University of Hannover, Germany
Milena Bandiera Biology Department, “Roma Tre” University, Italy
ThorstenBell Leibniz–InstituteforScienceEducation(IPN),UniversityofKiel,
Germany
J. Bellou Department of Primary Education, University of Ioannina, Greece
H. B. Berg Department of Teacher Education and School Development,
University of Oslo, Norway
Amanda Berry Monash University, Australia
Kerst Boersma Centre for Science and Mathematics Education, Utrecht
University, The Netherlands
Maja Brückmann IPN – Institute for Science Education, Kiel, Germany
Marion Budde Universum Science Center Bremen, Germany
Christian Buty UMR ICAR, COAST group, Université Lyon 2, France
Modesto Cabellos Dept. DCEM, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
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Ivo Cáp University of Žilina, Slovakia
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