Assessing Science Learning
Author: Janet Coffey
Publisher: NSTA Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 505
ISBN-13: 1933531401
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Practical Perspectives on Educational Theory and Game Development
Author: Marzullo, Fabio Perez
Publisher: IGI Global
Published: 2021-06-25
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 1799850226
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe video game market continues to increase, reaching millions of users on a variety of platforms and revealing how engaging and pervasive gaming can be. Games create engagement and offer both entertainment and a powerful way to understand and interact with the world. It is natural that educators see the potential of games as a learning tool that can support students who have difficulties learning and also reinvent it. Practical Perspectives on Educational Theory and Game Development is a critical scholarly resource that combines educational scenarios and game fundamentals in order to improve the way people learn and evolve. The book supports professionals with the creation of strategies for using gamification and game-based learning theory with effectiveness and measured results. Featuring a wide range of topics such as entrepreneurship, gamification, and traditional learning, this book is ideal for academicians, education professionals, curriculum designers, educational game developers, researchers, and students.
International Perspectives on Science Education for the Gifted
Author: Keith S Taber
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-28
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1317803906
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the spirit of encouraging international dialogue between researchers and practitioners, often working within isolated traditions, this book discusses perspectives on science education for the gifted informed by up-to-date research findings from a number of related fields. The book reviews philosophy, culture and programmes in science education for the gifted in diverse national contexts, and includes scholarly reviews of significant perspectives and up-to-date research methods and findings. The book is written in a straightforward style for students studying international perspective modules on undergraduate, but especially masters and doctoral degrees in Science Education and Gifted Education. Gifted education has come to be regarded as a key national programme in many countries, and gifted education in science disciplines is now of major importance to economic and technological development. Despite these national initiatives and developments, there are very few discussions on gifted education in science from international perspectives. This will be a valued addition to the scholarship in this emergent field.
Aspects of Teaching Secondary Science
Author: Sandra Amos
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-09-02
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1134508808
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA key new textbook which is part of a new series co-published with The Open University Written to be used in conjunction with its counterpart in the Teaching in the Secondary School series. Between them they address both the theoretical and practical issues in science teaching Examples of good practice are underpinned by reference to research and other literature
Dilemmas of Science Teaching
Author: John William Wallace
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780415237628
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Elementary Science Teacher Education
Author: Ken Appleton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-16
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 1135464170
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCo-Published with the Association For Science Teacher Education. Reflecting recent policy and standards initiatives, emerging research agendas, and key innovations, this volume provides a contemporary overview of important developments and issues that have that have in recent years shaped elementary science education pre-service courses and professional development, and practices that are shaping future directions in the field. Contributors from several countries who are actively engaged in research and design in elementary science education address: *Conceptual issues which impinge on contemporary science teacher education; *Intersections of content, pedagogy, and practice; and *Professional development as a contextualized practice. Elementary Science Teacher Education: International Perspectives on Contemporary Issues and Practice offers a clear picture of the current state of the field and directions for the future--to the benefit of elementary science teacher educators, aspiring teacher educators, school policy makers, other professionals involved in science education and, ultimately, the millions of elementary school children who will gain from improved practice.
International Perspectives on the Contextualization of Science Education
Author: Ingrid Sánchez Tapia
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-02-03
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 3030279820
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores how science learning can be more relevant and interesting for students and teachers by using a contextualized approach to science education. The contributors explore the contextualization of science education from multiple angles, such as teacher education, curriculum design, assessment and educational policy, and from multiple national perspectives. The aim of this exploration is to provide and inspire new practical approaches to bring science education closer to the lives of students to accelerate progress towards global scientific literacy. The book presents real life examples of how to make science relevant for children and adolescents of diverse ethnic and language backgrounds, socioeconomic status and nationalities, providing tools and guidance for teacher educators and researchers to improve the contextualization and cultural relevance of their practice. The book includes rigorous studies demonstrating that the contextualization of science learning environments is essential for student engagement in learning science and practitioners' reflections on how to apply this knowledge in the classroom and at national scale. This approach makes this book valuable for researchers and professors of science education and international education interested in designing teacher education courses that prepare future teachers to contextualize their teaching and in adding a critical dimension to their research agendas.
Practical Perspectives on Science Education
Author: Marvin Druger
Publisher: ASA-CSSA-SSSA
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9780891181743
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScience educators will enjoy reading the 20+ essays that provide many no-nonsense teaching tips and insights about science education. They represent Druger's personal reflections, based upon his experience in teaching more than 40,000 students during his career. Teachers will be moved and motivated after reading this inspirational book. 'Meeting former students everywhere I go; receiving letters and articles from former students; seeing the 'light bulbs' turned on in the minds of my students; sensing the excitement of a thoughtful insight; hearing critical questions being asked, and sometimes hearing creative answers; experiencing the good humor of youth and laughing with students; sharing a quest to live the good life to its fullest-that's what teaching is all about. Would I choose this career if I had the choice to make over again? You bet '-Marvin Druger The American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America are prominent international scientific societies headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin. The Societies specialize in peer-reviewed, high-quality science titles for a wide variety of audiences.Some of the many areas we publish in include: -Soils Methods and Management -Crop Development and Improvement -Agrosystem Management and the Global Food Crisis -Environmental Conservation and Climatology
Perspectives on Practice and Meaning in Mathematics and Science Classrooms
Author: D. Clarke
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2001-03-31
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780792369394
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a variegated picture of science and mathematics classrooms that challenges a research tradition that converges on the truth. The reader is surrounded with different images of the classroom and will find his beliefs confirmed or challenged. The book is for educational researchers, research students, and practitioners with an interest in optimizing the effectiveness of classrooms as environments for learning.
Pedagogy and the Practice of Science
Author: David Kaiser
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9780262112888
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudies examining the ways in which the training of engineers and scientists shapes their research strategies and scientific identities.
