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Storify by Ian Wed, May 08 2013 02:49:43 #SciTeachJC: Dis­crete KS3 HSW Sum­mary of #SciTeachJC dis­cus­sion 7th May A proper archive should appear shortly on the site, but for now here’s a sum­mary of the dis­cus­sion at last night’s Sci­ence Teach­ing Jour­nal Club. The paper: … Con­tinue read­ing →

The next meet­ing will take place on Tues­day 7th May at 7:30pm and will be mod­er­ated by @teachingofsci. Grime, R (2012) A School’s Expe­ri­ence of the Dis­crete Teach­ing of Sci­en­tific Skills at Early Sec­ondary Level, SSR 346 (.pdf) Abstract: Stu­dents … Con­tinue read­ing →

The next meet­ing will take place on 16th April at 7:30pm and will be mod­er­ated by @AlomShaha. Met­zler, Johannes & Woess­mann, Ludger (2010) The Impact of Teacher Sub­ject Knowl­edge on Stu­dent Achieve­ment: Evi­dence from Within-Teacher Within-Student Vari­a­tion IZA DP No. 4999 … Con­tinue read­ing →

Reiss, Michael (2008) The use of eth­i­cal frame­works by stu­dents fol­low­ing a new sci­ence course for 16–18 year-olds. Sci­ence & Edu­ca­tion, 17 (8–9). pp. 889–902. ISSN 0926 7220 [PDF] Abstract: There has been a move in recent years towards the … Con­tinue read­ing →

Firstly, thanks for all those who took part in #sciteachjc last Tues­day. It was a great start to the year and got quite a bit of atten­tion build­ing up to the meet­ing not least from one of the paper’s authors: … Con­tinue read­ing →

Happy New Year! It’s been 6 months since our last meet­ing. Both @Alby and @AlomShaha have been unavail­able to run the club over the lat­ter half of 2012 and the autumn school term is tra­di­tion­ally a long and stress­ful term so, … Con­tinue read­ing →

The title is not a typo; we will not be dis­cussing sci­en­tific lit­er­acy, a theme we have dis­cussed sev­eral times (but if you want more, I strongly rec­om­mend Alice Bell’s refresh­ing sug­ges­tion that this one isn’t just for teach­ers to … Con­tinue read­ing →

Jonathan Osborne, Shirley Simon & Sue Collins (2003): Atti­tudes towards sci­ence: A review of the lit­er­a­ture and its impli­ca­tions, Inter­na­tional Jour­nal of Sci­ence Edu­ca­tion, 25:9, 1049–1079 [down­load .pdf  234kb] Abstract: This arti­cle offers a review of the major lit­er­a­ture about atti­tudes … Con­tinue read­ing →

Ali­son Booth and Patrick Nolen, “Choos­ing to Com­pete: How Dif­fer­ent Are Girls and Boys?”, IZA Dis­cus­sion Paper No. 4027. [Down­load .PDF, 288 kB] Abstract: Using a con­trolled exper­i­ment, we exam­ine the role of nur­ture in explain­ing the styl­ized fact that … Con­tinue read­ing →