Upcom­ing Meetings

Meet­ing Six­teen — 24^th Jan­u­ary 2013

RCT’s in Edu­ca­tion. Review­ing the white paper pub­lished last sum­mer:
Haynes L., Ser­vice, O., Goldacre, B., Torg­er­son D. (2012). Test, Learn, Adapt: Devel­op­ing Pub­lic Pol­icy with Ran­domised Con­trolled Tri­als. Cab­i­net Office Behav­ioural
Insights Team

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Past Meet­ings

Meet­ing Fif­teen - 17th July

Lit­er­acy in Science

Meet­ing Four­teen — 3rd July 2012

Atti­tudes towards science

Meet­ing Thir­teen — 12th June 2012

Com­pe­ti­tion and Girls

Meet­ing Twelve — 22nd May 2012

Boost­ing sci­ence learn­ing through the design of cur­ricu­lum materials

Meet­ing Eleven — 8th May 2012

School is not where most Amer­i­cans learn most of their science.

Meet­ing Ten — 24^th Jan­u­ary 2012

Osborne J, Sci­ence Edu­ca­tion for the Twenty-First Cen­tury Eura­sia Jour­nal of Math­e­mat­ics, Sci­ence & Tech­nol­ogy Edu­ca­tion, 2007, 3(3), 173–184 (.pdf link)

 

Meet­ing Nine — 10^th Jan­u­ary 2012

Johannes Met­zler and Ludger Woess­mann “The Impact of Teacher Sub­ject Knowl­edge on Stu­dent Achieve­ment: Evi­dence from Within-Teacher Within-Student Vari­a­tion” IZA Dis­cus­sion Paper Num­ber 4999 (2010) (.PDF link).

Meet­ing Six — 18^th Octo­ber 2011

Harold Pash­ler, Mark McDaniel, Doug Rohrer, and Robert Bjork “Learn­ing Styles — Con­cepts and Evi­dence” Jour­nal of Psy­cho­log­i­cal Sci­ence in the Pub­lic Inter­est Decem­ber 2008 vol. 9 no. 3105–119 (.PDF)

Meet­ing Five — 4^th Octo­ber 2011

Haz­ari, Zahra et al. 2010. “Con­nect­ing High School Physics Expe­ri­ences, Out­come Expec­ta­tions, Physics Iden­tity, and Physics Career Choice: A Gen­der Study” Jour­nal of Research in Sci­ence Teach­ing 47(8): 978‑1003. doi: 10.1002/tea.20363 (.PDF 231kB).

Meet­ing Four — 20^th Sep­tem­ber 2011

Roedi­ger, Henry and Jef­frey Karpicke, “Test-Enhanced Learn­ing”, Psy­cho­log­i­cal Sci­ence 17(3): 249–255. doi: 10.1111/j.1467–9280.2006.01693.x (.PDF 121kB)

Meet­ing Three — 6^th Sep­tem­ber 2011

Dri­ver, Ros­alind, “The fal­lacy of induc­tion in sci­ence teach­ing”, in Teach­ing Sci­ence, ed. Ralph Levin­son (Lon­don: Rout­ledge, 1994), 41–48. (Google Books)

Meet­ing Two — 19^th July 2011

Mil­lar, Robin and Jonathan Osborne, “Beyond 2000: Sci­ence Edu­ca­tion for the Future” (Lon­don: King’s Col­lege Lon­don, 1998). (.PDF 142kB)

Meet­ing One — 5^th July 2011

Archer, Louise et al. 2010. “‘Doing’ sci­ence ver­sus ‘being’ a sci­en­tist: Exam­in­ing 10/11-year-old schoolchildren’s con­struc­tions of sci­ence through the lens of iden­tity”, Sci­ence Edu­ca­tion 94(4): 617–639. doi: 10.1002/sce.20399 (.PDF 146kB)