Handbook of Research on Science Education, Volume II, Volume 2Norman G. Lederman, Sandra K. Abell Building on the foundation set in Volume I—a landmark synthesis of research in the field—Volume II is a comprehensive, state-of-the-art new volume highlighting new and emerging research perspectives. The contributors, all experts in their research areas, represent the international and gender diversity in the science education research community. The volume is organized around six themes: theory and methods of science education research; science learning; culture, gender, and society and science learning; science teaching; curriculum and assessment in science; science teacher education. Each chapter presents an integrative review of the research on the topic it addresses—pulling together the existing research, working to understand the historical trends and patterns in that body of scholarship, describing how the issue is conceptualized within the literature, how methods and theories have shaped the outcomes of the research, and where the strengths, weaknesses, and gaps are in the literature. Providing guidance to science education faculty and graduate students and leading to new insights and directions for future research, the Handbook of Research on Science Education, Volume II is an essential resource for the entire science education community. |
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... Theory and Evidence In the field of science education, research attempts have been made to utilize theories or ... theory and research experiments—theory informs and provides a framework for experiments, and research findings allow ...
... theory assumes that, for example, a teachinglearning situation in a biology lesson can be interpreted without a ... theory predicts a particular item ordering from easy to difficult, if the theory matches what is observed in the ...
... theory and research is then seen as one of measurement error. (Blalock, 1968, pp. 6–12) This is the basic idea of theory-guided measurement— there is a true value (e.g., of motivation or performance in chemistry), and a measurement ...
... theory because this theory provides measures of the quality needed for statistical analysis. Core themes of earlier sections of our chapter are revisited in our discussion about the Rasch method. Rasch measurement techniques were ...
... theory and research. In Hubert M. Blalock, Jr., & Ann B. Blalock (Eds.), Methodology in social research (pp. 5–27). New York: McGraw-Hill. Boone, W., Townsend, S., & Staver, J. (2011). Using Rasch theory to guide the practice of survey ...
Contents
55 | |
Section III Diversity and Equity in Science Learning | 165 |
Section IV Science Teaching | 301 |
Section V Curriculum and Assessment in Science | 543 |
Section VI Science Teacher Education | 809 |
Contributors | 911 |
Subject Index | 913 |
Author Index | 929 |
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