Researching the Effectiveness of a Science Professional Learning Programme Using a Proposed Curriculum Framework for Schools: A Case Study

Paige, Kathryn; Zeegers, Yvonne; Lloyd, David; Roetman, Philip

doi:10.1007/s10763-014-9569-2

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“…Programmes that facilitate communication between scientists and students, and allow school groups to participate in scientific research have the potential to improve the scientific literacy of citizens by enhancing interest and experience in science and technology from a young age (Paige et al . ). By collaborating with schools to deliver these programmes through class activities, using limited resources (i.e.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…Authentic scientific projects that address questions for which the answers are not known in advance are likely to be more engaging for students than pre‐prepared school experiments that run year after year (Paige et al . ). Recently, the important link between citizen science and environmental education was made by Wals et al .…”

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confidence: 97%

“…; OECD ; Paige et al . ). Some key competencies that have been attributed to citizen science include: science and technology skills and understanding; digital competence; and, a sense of initiative and entrepreneurship (Bonney et al .…”

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confidence: 97%

“…; Paige et al . ). Citizen science activities can be organized to match current school programmes, as activities can have greater impact if they are built into current curricula to enhance learning, rather than being treated as an extra‐curricular activity to fit in around core programmes (Bates et al .…”

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Citizen science in schools: Engaging students in research on urban habitat for pollinators

Saunders

Roger²,

Geary

et al. 2018

Austral Ecology

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Citizen science can play an important role in school science education. Citizen science is particularly relevant to addressing current societal environmental sustainability challenges, as it engages the students directly with environmental science and gives students an understanding of the scientific process. In addition, it allows students to observe local representations of global challenges. Here, we report a citizen science programme designed to engage school-age children in real-world scientific research. The programme used standardized methods deployed across multiple schools through scientist-school partnerships to engage students with an important conservation problem: habitat for pollinator insects in urban environments. Citizen science programmes such as the programme presented here can be used to enhance scientific literacy and skills. Provided key challenges to maintain data quality are met, this approach is a powerful way to contribute valuable citizen science data for understudied, but ecologically important study systems, particularly in urban environments across broad geographical areas.

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Citizen science in schools: Engaging students in research on urban habitat for pollinators

Saunders

Roger²,

Geary

et al. 2018

Austral Ecology

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“…Past researches have put much emphasis on the importance of science towards career especially towards global importance (Gottfried et al, 2016) [7], increase the nation's socio-economy (Paige, Zeegers, Llyod, & Roetman, 2016) [8], guarantee the stabilization of technology (Onyekuru, 2015) [9] and towards a better quality development of science curriculum (Fensham, 2016) [10]. Nevertheless, in order to create students who are scientifically literate and have interest in science, various factors must be identified so that a quality skilled work force can be produced.…”

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Motivation to Learn Science as a Mediator between Attitude towards STEM and the Development of STEM Career Aspiration among Secondary School Students

Razali¹,

Manaf²,

Talib³

et al. 2020

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Education system plays an important role when it is able to produce skilled labour in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics field (STEM) for industrial need. Increasing students' interest to explore science by integrating STEM in the learning process is the main agenda for the global education system to ensure the learning outcome for students to excel in the future is achieved. Therefore, the need to cultivate the attitude towards STEM and the motivation to learn science is the drive in the development of students' STEM career interest. Hence, this research will 1) Identify the direct effect of attitude towards STEM and 2) Identify the effect of mediator which is motivation to learn science towards the development of students' STEM career interest. This research is a quantitative research that uses questionnaire forms. The research respondents are comprised of 419 Form 4 science stream students in Selangor, Malaysia. The result from the study can answer the research questions by proving the influence of attitude towards STEM is significant (p=.002) and the huge effect of motivation in science as mediator (R2=.458) towards the development of students' STEM career interest. The result of the study is hoped to be able to give meaningful input towards students' learning as well as the importance of attitude towards STEM, and the motivation to learn science as a mediator could contribute towards detailed curriculum design and the teaching of science so that it will become more meaningful towards students' future.

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Science as Human Endeavour, Critical Pedagogy and Practitioner Inquiry: Three Early Career Cases

Paige

Hardy

2018

Int J of Sci and Math Educ

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Researching the Effectiveness of a Science Professional Learning Programme Using a Proposed Curriculum Framework for Schools: A Case Study

Cited by 11 publications

References 20 publications

Citizen science in schools: Engaging students in research on urban habitat for pollinators

Citizen science in schools: Engaging students in research on urban habitat for pollinators

Motivation to Learn Science as a Mediator between Attitude towards STEM and the Development of STEM Career Aspiration among Secondary School Students

Science as Human Endeavour, Critical Pedagogy and Practitioner Inquiry: Three Early Career Cases

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