This Review of Chemistry Education Research (CER) provides an overview of the
development of research in chemistry education from the early days, when ideas about how …

Learning progressions are the successively more sophisticated ways of thinking about an
idea that follow one another over a broad span of time. This review examines the research …

This chapter characterises the two key purposes of assessment, formative and summative,
within a general model of assessment of student learning. It discusses reliability and validity …

Given the centrality of argumentation in the Next Generation Science Standards, there is an
urgent need for an empirically validated learning progression of this core practice and the …

BACKGROUND Design experiences play a crucial role in undergraduate engineering
education and are increasingly important in K–12 settings. There are few efforts to …

To improve instructional practices–in schools, universities and in out of school settings has
been a major concern of science education research and development. The intensive …

Our paper is an analytical review of the design, development and reporting of learning
progressions and teaching sequences. Research questions are:(1) what criteria are being …

This article presents an empirical study on an initial learning progression of energy, a
concept of central importance to the understanding of science. Learning progressions have …

Assessments that function close to classroom teaching and learning can play a powerful role
in fostering academic achievement. Unfortunately, however, relatively little attention has …

This article describes some of the underlying conceptualizations that have gone into the
work of the BEAR Center in the development of learning progressions. The core of all of …