A Framework for K-12 Science Education and Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
describe a new vision for science learning and teaching that is catalyzing improvements in …

The goal of scientific literacy has led to a steady increase in argument-based interventions in
science education contexts. It has been suggested that student participation in argument …

One of the hallmarks of science and science education is the production of new knowledge
about the natural world through objective argument and critique. Teachers' understanding of …

Abstract Argumentation is a core practice of science and has recently been advocated as an
essential goal of science education. Our research focuses on the discourse in urban high …

Science educators increasingly seek to support students' participation in scientific practices,
particularly epistemic practices, that is, those that ground authority for knowing in the …

This article reports an investigation of a professional development program to enhance
elementary teachers' ability to engage their students in argument from evidence in science …

This article reports the outcomes of a project in which teachers' sought to develop their
ability to use instructional practices associated with argumentation in the teaching of science …

Findings generated by recent research in science education, international debate on the
guiding purposes of science education and the nature of scientific and technological literacy …

Does student-centered dialogical argumentation work in authentic classroom settings? Four
experienced secondary teachers implemented an argument-based curriculum situated …

This paper examines whether teachers' prior professional development (PD) in Project-
Based Learning (PBL) significantly related to teachers' enactments of PBL practices within …