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 …

Over the past 10 years an increasing number of articles have been published in leading
science education journals that report on research about teacher identity and describe …

In this work we use research from science education on teacher framing and work from
mathematics education on teacher noticing to develop new approaches to modeling teacher …

Inquiry-based science education is an important innovation. Researchers and teachers
consider it to be stimulating for pupils' application of research skills, construction of meaning …

At the conclusion of the fi rst chapter on rural science education (Oliver, 2007a) for the
previous Handbook of Research on Science Education, a question was posed to readers in …

Background: In response to reform recommendations calling for students' engagement in
scientific practices and the lack of the enactment of such practices in science classrooms, we …

Prior research has mainly focused on what makes professional development effective from
the program design perspective. However, there is a lack of understanding about what …

The purpose of this case study was to examine a beginning elementary teacher's
development of identity for science teaching from her first year at university, her field …

To understand novice teachers' pedagogical content knowledge, this study focuses on first-
year teachers' planning and implementation of lessons incorporating students' …

This article explores how scholars have framed studies of preservice science teacher (PST)
knowledge and learning over the past twelve years. We examined relevant studies between …