Sure, students in the classroom have to remember facts, but they also have to apply them. Some research efforts to enhance learning zero in on methods to strengthen memory and recall, while others ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A University at Buffalo professor who specializes in science education will bring his message of technology and student engagement to the nation's largest group of science educators ...

As a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, Carl Wieman could probably get away with being a mediocre teacher. Yet he’s devoted much of his career to improving the ways colleges and universities teach science ...

Teachers must be able to combine several important kinds of knowledge in order to successfully implement classroom science instruction for concept learning. These include knowledge of science content, ...

Journal of Science Teacher Education, Vol. 18, No. 6 (2007), pp. 841-860 (20 pages) This study examined changes in personal science teaching self-efficacy (PSTE), outcome expectancy (STOE), and ...

Geoscience education research (GER) furthers our understanding of how people learn geoscience and how instructional practices can enhance learning. The central premise of this line of research views ...

The proper teaching of science is probably the greatest problem before American secondary education. Yet the schools must not only teach more physics and chemistry, but should also face the issue of ...

PROF. J. KENNER, of the Manchester College of Technology, recently opened a discussion on the “Historical Method in Teaching Science” at a meeting of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society.

A couple of years ago, five faculty members at Harvard University published an intriguing study. They had run an experiment in an introductory undergraduate physics course to figure out why active ...

As scientists, one would think that we would approach all areas of our careers using the same evidence-based decision making that we use in our research. However, this is often not the case when it ...

Minnesota students’ science test scores dropped this year amid news science standards, according to the state Department of Education. Overall, 25.7% of students met or exceeded the new standards.