This research aims to identify the trends in the field of science education, during the last decade. Generally, these trends are compatible with the developments in the field of science education, which mostly emphasize teaching practices and methods. Similar projects have been carried out during previous decades, focusing on research articles published in journals specializing in science education. Instead, the emphasis of this study is on journals that focus generally on the field of education research. The findings show that there are articles in these journals addressing science education and overall, they reflect the developments in the research of the particular field.
This research is a bibliometric study that focuses on publications containing both terms “technological pedagogical content knowledge” (TPACK or TPCK) and “science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics” (STEAM). The former addresses knowledge that teachers are expected to gain, whereas the latter addresses a new integrating subject field. Both terms dominate contemporary education research, especially in relation to technology and its impact on education. These two terms have been researched individually by bibliometricians. The aim of this research is to examine articles that combine these terms, as there seems to be a lack of such studies. With the help of the Scopus platform, 2,608 articles published since 2007 were collected and analyzed.
This research aims to identify elements of critical thinking that exist in primary science national curricula of several countries. Critical thinking is justified to be important in science teaching. It is considered a complex concept, which encompasses several skills. Science teaching is expected to promote the development and use of those competencies on behalf of the learners. The research around which of these elements are promoted in national curricula is still limited. Some models approach critical thinking as a concept comprised of five different groups of skills, which are basic clarification, decision, inference, advanced clarification and auxiliary skills. It was selected as appropriate for this study, which study examined the curricula of seventeen different countries. Through a content analysis approach, it investigated which of these groups and skills they mention. The data reveal that the majority of curricula refer to most of these skills.
This research examined Greek elementary school teachers' views concerning the transformation of their school into a "learning organization" paradigm. This transformation is important for contemporary schools as it allows teachers to develop, adopt new roles, promote better learning, and contribute to the wider social context. However, Greek schools have been found to be resistant to reforms due to the prevalence of a highly centralized system. Therefore, using a quantitative approach, this study aimed to identify teachers' perceptions towards adapting to a learning organization, with regards to their believes and the actual implementation. The conclusions that were drawn after the statistical analysis demonstrated that teachers claimed to have adopted certain new roles, but they did feel restricted in certain cases.
This study aims to identify the research types that authors of science education journal articles tend to select for their studies. It focused on articles published during the last decade. Selection of the appropriate research type is a significant process in education research. Depending on factors such as the goals that the researchers set or the conditions within which they work, they may select the implementation of quantitative studies, such as experimental study, field survey, secondary data analysis, and case research. They may select the implementation of qualitative studies such as case study, focus group, action research, and ethnography. Finally, they may select the implementation of mixed study. Therefore, by researching the types of research in published articles it is possible to gain insights about what goals the researchers set and their work context. This was the objective of this research. 2,071 articles in refereed journals in science education were collected. These articles were published between 2011-2020. The methodology included descriptive statistics and distribution calculation through a Kolmogorov Smirnov test. The findings showed that there is a preference to the qualitative type, even though there is a considerable number of studies to other types as well.
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