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Painting a Picture of Career Change Teachers in Queensland Open
Painting a Picture of Career Change Teachers in Queensland reports on a phase of the Australian Research Council Linkage Project titled Career Change Teachers: Addressing teacher shortages in Australia (ARCLP210300839). The research aims t…
How Well Does the F-10 Australian Curriculum Prepare Students to be Water Literate Citizens? Open
Global water availability and management are persistent challenges to sustainable futures, yet people may have limited understandings of water systems and may hold negative attitudes towards sustainable solutions. With education a mechanis…
Understanding the reasons why career changers pursue or pass on a STEM teaching career: a Best–Worst Scaling (BWS) approach Open
Intractable shortages of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) teachers have prompted international policy efforts to recruit career changers to the profession. This research determines the significant influences on care…
Understanding how education reform influences pre-service teachers’ teacher self-efficacy Open
Internationally, governments and education authorities initiate reforms to improve schooling. However, little is known about how these reforms influence pre-service teachers’ (PST) teacher self-efficacy (TSE). This study investigates PSTs’…
Early Career Innovations in Science Education Research: Introduction to the Special Issue Open
Science education research has typically been aligned with a collection of familiar topics and ideas. However, the field, like many others, is becoming ever more varied as it responds to a range of remarkable social, cultural, and technolo…
Teacher self-efficacy and reform: a systematic literature review Open
Teacher self-efficacy (TSE) of pre-service and in-service teachers plays a significant role in the successful implementation of educational reforms. The purpose of this systematic literature review is to explore the interaction between cur…
Realising the sustainability cross- curriculum priority through action- oriented and transformative geography education Open
Sustainability is an important cross-curriculum priority in Australian education that is not commonly realised in schools and classrooms. In this article, we discuss the challenges and opportunities to enacting sustainability, suggesting t…
Representing earth science concepts using slowmation: influences on middle school students' conceptual change Open
A number of challenges are currently impacting the quality of Earth science education in Australia. These include the introduction of a new Australian Curriculum that requires students learn about abstract Earth science concepts; the inade…
Junior secondary school students' conceptions about plate tectonics Open
There are ongoing calls for research that identifies students' conceptions about geographical phenomena. In response, this study investigates junior secondary school students' (N=95) conceptions about plate tectonics. Student response data…
Representing Earth Science Concepts through Slowmation: Influences on Conceptual Change Open
It is well known that students arrive in science classrooms with pre-instructional ideas about science phenomena, and that often students’ ideas are not scientifically accurate representations of these phenomena. This research project will…