Types, Topics and Trends: A Ten-Year Review of Research Journals in Science Education

O’Toole, John M.; Freestone, Margaret; McKoy, Karina S.; Duckworth, Brian

doi:10.3390/educsci8020073

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“…Lin and others [8] reported a similar finding that qualitative methods were the dominant analysis method in SER papers. This matches the findings of O'Toole and others [16].…”

Section: Methodssupporting

confidence: 93%

“…Therefore, we selected another key venue for further analysis, the latest European Science Education Research Association (ESERA) conference proceedings in the same period. Our historical survey also complements the recent survey by O'Toole and others [16], which analyzed some similar aspects in SER papers in different venues, while using a different categorization system over a period (2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 89%

“…On the other hand, compared with the O'Toole and others study [16] is challenging as they have used a categorization system more abstract than our system. For example, they use 'Scientific Literacy' as the main category but divide it into several sub-categories-some of which are like our foci areas, such as curriculum, and several others fall beyond the scope of our categorization system.…”

Section: General Trendsmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…The earlier studies do not provide a comprehensive database for comparison, as few studies have paid any attention to this topic. Some studies give information on the educational levels, such as Gul and Sozbilir [1], Teo and others [19] and O'Toole and others [16]. However, it is a different classification attribute than the educational scope.…”

Section: Discipline Characteristicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…More recently, O'Toole and others [16] analyzed ten years (2005-2014) of abstracts from IJSE/JRST/SE/RISE and Studies in Higher Education. They used a different, but overlapping categorization method, identifying papers in five major categories: Scientific literacy (52%), Teaching methods (45%), Learning focus (42%), Teachers (39%), and Relation between Science and Education (16%).…”

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This study provides an overview of the didactic focus areas in educational research in biology, chemistry and physics, seeking to identify the focus areas that are investigated frequently and those that have been studied rarely or not at all. We applied the didactic focus-based categorization analysis method (DFCM), which is based on an extension of the didactic triangle. As the data set, we used 250 papers published in the Nordic Studies in Science Education (NorDiNa) between 2005 and 2013, and the European Science Education Research Association (ESERA) 2013 conference proceedings covering education at upper secondary and tertiary levels. The results show that the teacher's pedagogical actions and the student-content relationship were the most frequently studied aspects. On the other hand, teachers' reflections on the students' perceptions and attitudes about goals and content, and teachers' conceptions of the students' actions towards achieving the goals were studied least. Irrespective of the publication forum, the distributions of foci to different categories were quite similar. Our historical analysis completes the recent studies in the field as it is based on the theory driven categorization system instead of the data driven approaches used by the previous researchers. Moreover, our further observations on more recent publications suggest that no significant changes have taken place, and therefore wider discussion about the scope and the coverage of the research in science education is needed.

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“…Lin and others [8] reported a similar finding that qualitative methods were the dominant analysis method in SER papers. This matches the findings of O'Toole and others [16].…”

Section: Methodssupporting

confidence: 93%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 89%

Section: General Trendsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Discipline Characteristicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Research in Science Education (RISE): A Review (and Story) of Research in RISE Articles (1994–2018)

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A Study on Science Education of Chinese English Textbooks in Senior High School from the Perspective of Multimodality

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Shi²

2020

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With the advent of the post epidemic era, discourse analysis based on systemic functional linguistics has undergone corresponding changes. As one of the key categories of science discourse, the discourse of science education has become one of the research hot spots. The reasonable arrangement, presentation and proportion of Chinese science education in English textbooks of senior high school are of positive significance to improve students' scientific literacy and broaden their horizons. This study aims to analyze the discourse of science education, including the contents, integration forms, meaning construction, relation between image and text by using qualitative methods and investigate the attitude of teachers towards science education in Chinese English textbooks of senior high school by using quantitative methods from the perspective of multimodality based on textbook evaluation theory, visual grammar, and relation theory of image and text. A total of 228 teachers from five different Chinese cities as Anyang, Luoyang, Luohe, Xuchang were investigated. The conclusion are: (1) it should pay attention to increase cognition education of science and technology frontier, design the content of science education more scientifically; (2) it should pay attention to use multimodality to strengthen science education rather than single modal; (3) it should adopt the presentation forms of multimodality which teachers and students prefer and easy to accept in order to improve the teaching effect and guidance of science education in senior high school.

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Types, Topics and Trends: A Ten-Year Review of Research Journals in Science Education

Cited by 9 publications

References 27 publications

Didactic Focus Areas in Science Education Research

Didactic Focus Areas in Science Education Research

Research in Science Education (RISE): A Review (and Story) of Research in RISE Articles (1994–2018)

A Study on Science Education of Chinese English Textbooks in Senior High School from the Perspective of Multimodality

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