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View article: Fostering Sociopolitical Awareness in Genetic Education: Investigating Racial Health Disparities in Diabetes
Fostering Sociopolitical Awareness in Genetic Education: Investigating Racial Health Disparities in Diabetes Open
View article: What Makes a Competent Outsider?
What Makes a Competent Outsider? Open
View article: Friendly Controversy: Synergistic Scaffolding for Practices of Providing Peer Critique
Friendly Controversy: Synergistic Scaffolding for Practices of Providing Peer Critique Open
View article: Disagreeing softly: Supporting students in managing disagreement in peer critique
Disagreeing softly: Supporting students in managing disagreement in peer critique Open
Disagreement is often perceived negatively, yet it can be beneficial for learning and scientific inquiry. However, students tend to avoid engaging in disagreement. Peer critique activities offer a promising way to encourage students to emb…
View article: De/settling Powered Differentials and Disciplinary Practices Through Rightful Presence: Examining How Power, Emotions, and Resistance Shaped Emerging Epistemic Ideals in Middle School Science
De/settling Powered Differentials and Disciplinary Practices Through Rightful Presence: Examining How Power, Emotions, and Resistance Shaped Emerging Epistemic Ideals in Middle School Science Open
There is a growing body of scholarship in science education that attends to the role of emotions and affect as shaping youths' negotiation of and experiences with disciplinary science practices towards more expansive understandings of how …
View article: Supporting Students’ Epistemic Agency to Revise a Class Criteria List for Scientific Models
Supporting Students’ Epistemic Agency to Revise a Class Criteria List for Scientific Models Open
Reforms in science education have called for students to engage in scientific practices.A scientific practice that has received increased attention is modeling.Part of the practice of modeling is the development, use, and evaluation of epi…
View article: Elementary Students’ Reasoning About Explanation-Evidence Relationships
Elementary Students’ Reasoning About Explanation-Evidence Relationships Open
Relating evidence to explanations is a critical epistemic practice for productive engagement with evidence in the science classroom and beyond.However, research examining students' reasoning about what makes for stronger and more robust ev…
View article: Probing Beyond the Biology: Centering a Relational Ontology in Middle-School Science Modeling Towards Rightful Presence
Probing Beyond the Biology: Centering a Relational Ontology in Middle-School Science Modeling Towards Rightful Presence Open
Modeling science phenomena serves as a tool to support science practices, where classroom environments and youths' relations with each other and those in positions of power shape how the activity unfolds and what models are created.Grounde…
View article: Designing Science Curricula That Disrupt Disciplinary Boundaries Towards Sociopolitical Change: A Middle School Life Science Unit
Designing Science Curricula That Disrupt Disciplinary Boundaries Towards Sociopolitical Change: A Middle School Life Science Unit Open
Supporting minoritized students' participation in a science requires designing expansive notions of what counts as doing and learning science.We present the design of a middle-school biology unit about stress and body system interactions t…
View article: Investigating students’ development of mechanistic reasoning in modeling complex aquatic ecosystems
Investigating students’ development of mechanistic reasoning in modeling complex aquatic ecosystems Open
Introduction This study reports on a classroom intervention where upper-elementary students and their teacher explored the biological phenomena of eutrophication using the Modeling and Evidence Mapping (MEME) software environment and assoc…
View article: Developmental changes in children’s recognition of the relevance of evidence to causal explanations
Developmental changes in children’s recognition of the relevance of evidence to causal explanations Open
Identifying relevant evidence is necessary to evaluate scientific claims. Two studies explore how children ages 7–10 (n = 98) judge the relevance of different types of observations for evaluating the accuracy of a causal explanation, and h…
View article: Applying the Grasp-of-Evidence Framework to Design and Evaluate Epistemically Complex Learning Environments
Applying the Grasp-of-Evidence Framework to Design and Evaluate Epistemically Complex Learning Environments Open
The contemporary information world is epistemically complex—rife with conflicts, misinformation, and diverse forms of poor evidence. To prepare learners for this world, educators must enable learners to handle this epistemic complexity. As…
View article: Working Together: Integrating Computational Modeling Approaches to Investigate Complex Phenomena
Working Together: Integrating Computational Modeling Approaches to Investigate Complex Phenomena Open
Complex systems are made up of many entities, whose interactions emerge into distinct collective patterns. Computational modeling platforms can provide a powerful means to investigate emergent phenomena in complex systems. Some research ha…
View article: Students’ Understanding of the Dynamic Nature of Genetics: Characterizing Undergraduates’ Explanations for Interaction between Genetics and Environment
Students’ Understanding of the Dynamic Nature of Genetics: Characterizing Undergraduates’ Explanations for Interaction between Genetics and Environment Open
This research investigates how students reason about the phenomenon of phenotypic plasticity. An analysis of student interviews reviled two types of mechanistic explanations, one of which seems to be less intuitive but is critical for reas…
View article: Analysis of Different Categories of Epistemic and Metacognitive Discourse in Argumentation
Analysis of Different Categories of Epistemic and Metacognitive Discourse in Argumentation Open
Argumentative practices have been shown to deepen understanding and improve academic performance. After 10 years of work with science curricula designed to develop reasoning, we present a framework grounded in data from our projects for id…
View article: Critical Design Decisions for Successful Model-Based Inquiry in Science Classrooms
Critical Design Decisions for Successful Model-Based Inquiry in Science Classrooms Open
Current science education reforms and the new standards (Next Generation Science Standards [NGSS], 2013) advocate that K-12 students gain proficiency in the knowledge-generating practices of scientists. These practices include argumentatio…
View article: Issue Information
Issue Information Open