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Research on STEM practices in education: International perspectives

Edited by Prof Sibel Erduran

Recent curriculum policies from around the world have called for the teaching and learning of STEM practices in educational settings. For example, the Next Generation Science Standards in the USA advocate the inclusion of science and engineering practices in STEM education. This thematic series brings together the work of scholars from around the world to investigate the trends in STEM education research in terms of coverage of STEM practices and to illustrate how STEM practices can be incorporated in educational settings. The collection includes a set of articles illustrating various research and development efforts from different parts of the world in order to make STEM practices a component of STEM instruction. The articles focus on science, mathematics, engineering and technology domains, and include focus on a range of topics such as argumentation, digital games, curriculum policy and reflective practice of teacher educators.

  1. The use of visual representations (i.e., photographs, diagrams, models) has been part of science, and their use makes it possible for scientists to interact with and represent complex phenomena, not observable...

    Authors: Maria Evagorou, Sibel Erduran and Terhi Mäntylä
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2015 2:11
  2. Design and science inquiry are intertwined during engineering practice. In this study, we examined the relationship between design behaviors and scientific explanations. Data on student design processes were c...

    Authors: Åženay Purzer, Molly Hathaway Goldstein, Robin S Adams, Charles Xie and Saeid Nourian
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2015 2:9
  3. This auto-ethnographic study describes research conducted in a science teacher education program at a state university in Turkey, where I had taught the ‘laboratory applications’ course for the four previous y...

    Authors: Deniz Saribas and Gaye Defne Ceyhan
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2015 2:7
  4. The primary objective of this paper is to provide a review of research on argumentation in science education based on publications from 1998 to 2014 in three science education journals. In recent years, the te...

    Authors: Sibel Erduran, Yasemin Ozdem and Jee-Young Park
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2015 2:5
  5. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between theory and design in the context of creating digital games to support children's development of scientific expertise.

    Authors: Douglas B Clark, Pratim Sengupta, Corey E Brady, Mario M Martinez-Garza and Stephen S Killingsworth
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2015 2:2
  6. The shift from science inquiry to science practices as recommended in the US reports A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas and the Next Generation Science Standa...

    Authors: Richard A Duschl and Rodger W Bybee
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2014 1:12