TABLE
OF CONTENTS |
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| PART
1 STUDENTS’ INTEREST IN LEARNING
SCIENCE |
|
| Chapter
1 |
Interest in Science: Lessons and non-lessons from
TIMSS and PISA
Peter J. Fensham |
3 |
| Chapter
2 |
Research-based
Innovative Units for Enhancing Student
Cognitive Outcomes and Interest in Science 11
David F. Treagust
|
11 |
| Chapter
3 |
Girls
and Physics: Dilemmas and Tensions 27
Elizabeth Whitelegg, Patricia Murphy and Christina
Hart
|
27 |
| 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
John Leach
|
39 |
| Chapter
5 |
Studying
Science Teaching Practices in Relation to Learning:
Time Scales of Teaching Phenomena
Andrée Tiberghien and Christian Buty
|
59 |
| Chapter
6 |
The Potential of Video Studies in Research on Teaching
and Learning Science
Maja Brückmann, Reinders Duit, Maike Tesch,
Hans Fischer, Alexander Kauertz, Thomas Reyer, Bernhard
Gerber, Birte Knierim and Peter Labudde
|
77 |
| PART
3 SCIENCE TEACHERS’ KNOWLEDGE, PRACTICE AND
EDUCATION |
| Chapter
7 |
Pedagogical Content Knowledge: What Does it Mean
to Science Teachers?
John Loughran, Amanda Berry and Pamela Mulhall
|
93 |
| Chapter
8 |
Science
Teachers’ PCK and Teaching Practice: Learning
to
Scaffold Students’ Open-inquiry Learning
Onno de Jong and A. E. van der Valk
|
107 |
| Chapter
9 |
Physics
in Context – A program for Improving Physics
Instruction in Germany
Reinders Duit, Silke Mikelskis-Seifert and Christoph
T. Wodzinski
|
119 |
| Chapter
10 |
The Relationship of Capability Beliefs and Teaching
Environments of New Danish Elementary Teachers of
Science to Teaching Success
Annemarie M. Andersen, Søren Dragsted, Robert
H. Evans and Helene Sørensen
|
131 |
| Chapter
11 |
A Beginners’ Module of Integrated Natural
Science for Secondary Teacher Students: The result
of an Educational Reconstruction Process over Three
Iterations
Albert Zeyer and Manuela Welzel
|
143 |
| PART
4 LEARNING AND UNDERSTANDING SCIENCE |
| Chapter
12 |
Learning Process Studies
Hans Niedderer, Marion Budde, Damien Givry, Dimitris
Psillos and Andrée Tiberghien
|
159 |
| Chapter
13 |
Meaning
Construction and Contextualization While Solving
a Dynamics Task in the Laboratory
Carlos Reigosa and María P. Jiménez-Aleixandre
|
173 |
| Chapter
14 |
Development of a Model of Formative Assessment
Terry Russell and Linda McGuigan |
187 |
| Chapter
15 |
Memorisation of Information from Scientific Movies
Bülent Pekda?g and Jean-François Le
Maréchal
|
199 |
| PART
5 TEACHING AND LEARNING SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTS |
| Chapter
16 |
Micro-organisms: Everyday Knowledge Predates and
Contrasts with School Knowledge
Milena Bandiera
|
213 |
| Chapter
17 |
Using
the Processes of Electrical Charge of Bodies as
a Tool in the Assessment of University Students’
Learning in Electricity
Jenaro Guisasola, José L. Zubimendi, José
M. Almudí and Mikel Ceberio
|
225 |
| Chapter
18 |
Representation
and Learning about Evaporation
Russell Tytler and Vaughan Prain |
237 |
| Chapter
19 |
Learning from the History and Philosophy of Science:
Deficiencies in Teaching the Macroscopic Concepts
of Substance and Chemical Change
M. Consuelo Domínguez-Sales, Carles Furió-Más
and Jenaro Guisasola
|
249 |
| PART
6 INNOVATIVE TEACHING–LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
IN SCIENCE EDUCATION |
| Chapter
20 |
Non-Formal Science Teaching and Learning
Ivo C?áp
|
263 |
| Chapter
21 |
Adults’ Understanding of Analogy-based Exhibits
in an Interactive Science Museum
Ana S. Afonso and John K. Gilbert |
275 |
| Chapter
22 |
The
Puppets Project: Using Puppets to Promote Engagement
and Talk in Science
Stuart Naylor, Brenda Keogh, Brigid Downing, Jane
Maloney and Shirley Simon |
289 |
| Chapter
23 |
Inquiring the Inquiry Laboratory in High School
Mira Kipnis and Avi Hofstein |
297 |
| Chapter
24 |
Developing Students’ Views on the Nature of
Science through Non-traditional Writing-to-Learn
Experiences in the Science Classroom
Tili Wagner and Tamar Levin |
307 |
| PART
7 MODELS AND MODELLING IN SCIENCE EDUCATION |
| Chapter
25 |
Towards
a Validated Conception of Scientific Models
Jan H. van Driel and A.E. van der Valk
|
321 |
| Chapter
26 |
The Development of Elementary Students’ Understanding
of Complex Ecosystems Through a Model-Based Approach
Marios Papaevripidou, Constantinos P. Constantinou
and Zacharias C. Zacharia
|
333 |
| Chapter
27 |
Effects
of Model-Based Teaching on the Durability of Pre-Service
Physics Teachers’ Conceptions of Lunar Events
Feral Ogan-Bekiroglu
|
347 |
| Chapter
28 |
Learning
and Teaching about Ecosystems Based on Systems Thinking
and Modelling in an Authentic Practice
René Westra, Kerst Boersma, Arend J. Waarlo
and Elwin Savelsbergh
|
361 |
| PART
8 DISCOURSE AND ARGUMENTATION IN SCIENCE EDUCATION |
| Chapter
29 |
Argumentation
and the Learning of Science
Claudia von Aufschnaiter, Sibel Erduran, Jonathan
Osborne and Shirley Simon
|
377 |
| Chapter
30 |
Students’ Argumentation in Group Discussions
on a Socio-Scientific Issue
Virginie Albe
|
389 |
| Chapter
31 |
Exemplary
Teaching of Argumentation: A Case Study of Two Science
Teachers
Sibel Erduran and Zoubeida R. Dagher
|
403 |
| Chapter
32 |
What
Can We Learn from a Study of Argumentation in the
Students Answers and Group Discussion to Open Physics
Problems?
Marina Castells, Juan Enciso, Josep M. Cerveró,
Pere López and Modesto Cabellos
|
417 |
PART 9 TEACHING AND LEARNING SCIENCE USING
MULTIMEDIA
AND COMPUTER TOOLS |
| Chapter
33 |
Evaluating Students’ Multimedia Science Design
Projects
in the Elementary Classroom
|
435
|
| Chapter
34 |
Technology-Enhanced Collaborative Inquiry Learning:
Four Approaches under Common Aspects
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
|
451 |
| Chapter
35 |
Visualizing
the Quantum Atom
A. Kontogeorgiou, J. Bellou, Tassos A. Mikropoulos
|
465 |
| Chapter
36 |
Evaluation
of the Hypermedia Learning Environment “Physics
for Medical Students” Within two Different
Settings
Heike Theyßen and Monika Hüther
|
477 |
| Chapter
37 |
The Role of Language in Learning Physics with Computer-based
Multimedia
Thorid Rabe and Helmut F. Mikelskis
|
489 |
