Alexis D. Riley, Felicia Moore Mensah

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JRST VOL. 61 (4), PP.809-840 (2024)
 

Overview: This work summarizes the findings 18 Black women science teachers engaging in Sista Circles where they discuss and develop anti-racist, liberatory approaches to science teaching and learning.

Audience: Administrators (K-12), Instructional designers, K-12 science teachers, Science education leaders, Secondary science teachers

Chulkyu Park, Seonyeong Mun, Hun-Gi Hong

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JRST VOL. 61 (3), PP.674-705 (2024)

Overview: This study investigated how students’ implicit assumptions, formed during present learning, can lead to the construction of alternative conceptions of concepts to be learned in the future.

Audience: Instructional designers, Researchers, Science education leaders, Secondary science teachers, Chemistry educators

Haozhe Jiang, A.Y.M. Atiquil Islam, Xiaoqing Gu, Jia Guan

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JRST VOL. 61, NO. 3, PP.645-673 (2024)

Overview: Students’ thinking styles and STEM attitudes directly predicted their computational thinking skills and thinking styles mediated the relationship between STEM attitudes and computational thinking skills.

Audience: STEM educators; Curriculum designers; University students

Stefanie L. Marshall, Jessica Forrester, Jenny Tilsen

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JRST VOL. 61 (3), PP.533-555 (2024)

Overview: This case study explores how an othermother, who is an elementary principal, employs radical care through her leadership of science for children of her community.

Audience: Administrators (K-12), District science coordinators, Policymakers, Researchers/Researcher supervisors, Science education leaders

Martin Schwichow, Anastasios Zoupides

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JRST VOL. 61, NO. 2, PP.487-516 (2024)

Overview: This work summarizes the findings of 69 studies on teaching floating and sinking. We found a large positive teaching effect and that hands-on experiments are more effective than virtual experiments.

Lori Rubino-Hare, Brooke A. Whitworth, Francis Boateng, Nena Bloom

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JRST VOL. 61, NO. 2, PP.419-456 (2024)

Overview: Our national study assesses the impact of geospatial technology-integrated lessons on student interest in science, technology, and STEM careers. Findings highlight the importance of teacher knowledge, skills and contextual factors.

Beth A. Covitt, Elizabeth Xeng de los Santos, Qinyun Lin, Christie Morrison Thomas, Charles W. Anderson

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