Research Briefs 2024

Research Briefs are one page overviews of an article published in JRST.   Each Research Brief includes an introduction, a summary of the essential findings of the original article, and a takeaway message. Click on the Download PDF or View in Browser links to read the Research Brief. For the original articles, please refer to the article citation.


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2024

Ting, Tang, Tong: 3rd Grade Emerging Bilingual Students Explaining Sounds
Enrique Suárez, Valerie Otero
JRST VOL. 61 (1), PP.137-169 (2024)
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Instructional Practices in Secondary Science: How Teachers Achieve Local and Standards-Based Success
Beth A. Covitt, Elizabeth Xeng de los Santos, Qinyun Lin, Christie Morrison Thomas, Charles W. Anderson
JRST VOL. 61 (1), PP.170-202 (2024)
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Impact of Geospatial Lessons on Student Interest in Science and Technology Careers
Lori Rubino-Hare, Brooke A. Whitworth, Francis Boateng, Nena Bloom
JRST VOL. 61 (2), pp 419-456 (2024)
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A Summary of Studies on Teaching Floating and Sinking
Martin Schwichow, Anastasios Zoupides
JRST VOL. 61 (2), PP.487-516 (2024)
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Othermothering Leadership within an Elementary Science Network
Stefanie L. Marshall, Jessica Forrester, Jenny Tilsen
JRST VOL. 61 (3), PP.533-555 (2024)
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How Do Thinking Styles and STEM Attitudes Have Effects on Computational Thinking? A Structural Equation Modeling Analysis
Haozhe Jiang, A.Y.M. Atiquil Islam, Xiaoqing Gu, Jia Guan
JRST VOL. 61(3), PP. 645-673 (2024)
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High School Students’ Evolving Alternative Conceptions Related to the Volume of Gas
Chulkyu Park, Seonyeong Mun, Hun-Gi Hong
JRST VOL. 61 (3), PP.674-705 (2024)
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Things Your History Teacher Won’t Teach You: Science Edition
Alexis D. Riley, Felicia Moore Mensah
JRST VOL. 61 (4), PP.809-840 (2024)
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Gender-Inclusive Science Education for Trans and Nonbinary Youth
K. Rende Mendoza, Carla C. Johnson
JRST VOL. 61 (4), PP.937-971(2024)
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The Influence of Power on Increasing Access to Undergraduate Research Experiences
Rebecca S. Friesen, Adriana D. Cimetta
JRST VOL. 61 (5), PP. 1032-1061 (2024)
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Enhancing Self-Regulation of Intuitive Thinking in The Context of Evolution
Tim Hartelt, Helge Martens
JRST VOL. 61 (5), PP.1134-1180 (2024)
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Guiding Students to Make Meanings Across Modes in Science
Vaughan Prain & Russell Tytler
JRST VOL.61 (5), PP.1181-1205 (2024)
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From Graphs as Task to Graphs as Tool
A. Lynn Stephens
JRST VOL. 61 (5), PP. 1206-1233 (2024)
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Validating a Content Knowledge for Teaching Science Assessment for Preservice Elementary Teachers
Katherine E. Castellano, Jamie N. Mikeska
JRST VOL. 61 (6), PP.1389-1426 (2024)
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Cognitive-Science Interventions Improved Middle School Science Learning; Teacher Content Knowledge PD Did Not
Steven L. Kramer, Janie Scull, Andrew Porter, Christine M. Massey, F. Joseph Merlino, John Y. Baker
JRST VOL. 61, NO. 7, PP.1543-1573 (2024)
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Understanding Practitioner and Researcher Voices in Science Education Writing
Joseph A. Taylor, G. Michael Bowen, Marcus Kubsch, Ryan Summers, Asli Sezen-Barrie, Patricia Patrick, Cathy Lachapelle, AbdiRizak Warfa, S. Selcen Guzey
JRST VOL. 61 (7), PP.1727-1754(2024)
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Asset and Deficit Discourses of Student Ideas in Science Formative Assessment Co-design
Caitlin G. M. Fine, Erin M. Furtak
JRST VOL.61 (9), PP. 2133-2161(2024)
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Navigating Socio-Emotional Risk through Comfort-Building in Physics Teacher Professional Development: A Case Study
Maggie S. Mahmood, Hamideh Talafian, Devyn Shafer, Eric Kuo, Morten Lundsgaard, Tim Stelzer
JRST VOL.61 (9), PP. 2223-2257 (2024)
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Positioning Science Phenomena as Locally and Personally Relevant
Heather F. Clark, Symone A. Gyles, Darlene Tieu, Shriya Venkatesh, William A. Sandoval
JRST VOL. 61 (9), PP. 2104-2132 (2024)
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