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  1. The primary purpose of the current study is to identify the differences between Indonesian and Korean high school students with regard to science learning orientations based on the inter-correlation between co...

    Authors: Arif Rachmatullah and Minsu Ha
    Citation: Asia-Pacific Science Education 2019 5:19
  2. This research aims to develop an instructional model using advanced laboratory equipment (ALE) based on collective intelligence attributes that can be applied to the scientifically-gifted students. The develop...

    Authors: Kyunghee Jeon, Dahye Park and Jongseok Park
    Citation: Asia-Pacific Science Education 2019 5:18
  3. Educational opportunities in the home, at school, and within the community differ across countries and affect students’ achievement and future success in science fields. Bandura’s Social (Social foundations of...

    Authors: Rachel Louise Geesa, Burcu Izci, Hyuksoon S. Song and Shiyi Chen
    Citation: Asia-Pacific Science Education 2019 5:17
  4. For the purpose of introducing the trends and development of science teacher education in Taiwan, three stages of teacher education were explored in this study: the distant past (DP): 1949 to 1994; the immedia...

    Authors: Hsiao-Lin Tuan and Yu-Ling Lu
    Citation: Asia-Pacific Science Education 2019 5:15
  5. The purpose of this article is to examine the quality management of the secondary school science teachers in Korea. To improve the quality of teachers, it takes a coherent policy effort over the entire teachin...

    Authors: Youngsun Kwak
    Citation: Asia-Pacific Science Education 2019 5:14
  6. This study suggests an engineering design process-based (EDP-based) teaching and learning model in science education and examines its educational potential for scientifically gifted students. This model consis...

    Authors: Hwa-Jung Han and Kew-Cheol Shim
    Citation: Asia-Pacific Science Education 2019 5:13
  7. In this reviewing paper, a couple of issues concerning school science education in Macau are discussed, including science teacher education, science curriculum reform, and opportunities and challenges for scie...

    Authors: Bing Wei
    Citation: Asia-Pacific Science Education 2019 5:10
  8. This study explored relationships between students’ attitudes toward science and their preferred versus actual experience of cooperative, constructivist-oriented, or direct instruction. The sample consisted of...

    Authors: Gavin W. Fulmer, Hongjia Ma and Ling L. Liang
    Citation: Asia-Pacific Science Education 2019 5:9
  9. Capacity building usually follows any initiative. This also applies to education especially after curriculum reforms. This is to equip teachers with enough skills that would make them align their practices to ...

    Authors: Sally B. Gutierez
    Citation: Asia-Pacific Science Education 2019 5:8
  10. Scientific argumentation skills are important for students for expressing their opinions, making decisions and solving problems in daily life. Previous studies have focused on students’ scientific argumentatio...

    Authors: Wilaiwan Songsil, Pongprapan Pongsophon, Boonsatien Boonsoong and Anthony Clarke
    Citation: Asia-Pacific Science Education 2019 5:7
  11. The purpose of this paper is to describe pre- and in-service science teacher education and science education research in Indonesia in an effort to better inform the international science education community ab...

    Authors: Faisal and Sonya N. Martin
    Citation: Asia-Pacific Science Education 2019 5:4
  12. This paper reports on a multimodal teaching approach delivered to grade 5 elementary students in a bilingual school in Hong Kong, as part of a larger research study aimed at supporting English Language Learner...

    Authors: Melanie Williams, Kok-Sing Tang and Mihye Won
    Citation: Asia-Pacific Science Education 2019 5:3
  13. Every classroom environment reflects the cultural features of the country where it is located. In this study, with a focus on cultural features, we compared the science classroom environments of two Asian coun...

    Authors: Jina Chang, Chatree Faikhamta, Jiyeon Na and Jinwoong Song
    Citation: Asia-Pacific Science Education 2018 4:11
  14. The purpose of this paper is to describe the historical development of science teacher education in pre-service and in-service education in Japan with a focus on the systemic changes and teachers’ professional...

    Authors: Tetsuo Isozaki
    Citation: Asia-Pacific Science Education 2018 4:10
  15. Creativity has become an increasingly important skill in today’s rapidly changing times, as industries and economies depend upon innovation. It is therefore a requirement for school graduates, especially those...

    Authors: Luzie Semmler, Shingo Uchinokura and Verena Pietzner
    Citation: Asia-Pacific Science Education 2018 4:9
  16. This concept paper discussed the development of science teacher education programs in Malaysia. The discussion encompassed the existing policies, practices and issues, arising from the science teacher educatio...

    Authors: Siti Nur Diyana Mahmud, Nurfaradilla Mohamad Nasri, Mohd Ali Samsudin and Lilia Halim
    Citation: Asia-Pacific Science Education 2018 4:8
  17. “Doing” science in the form of practical work is one pedagogical approach to learning science alongside others such as talking science, writing science, reading science and representing science. However, scien...

    Authors: Joanna Higgins, Azra Moeed and Raewyn Eden
    Citation: Asia-Pacific Science Education 2018 4:6
  18. To improve the effectiveness of science teacher training, with regard to the impact of Chinese culture on teachers’ views on the nature of science (VNOS), a nationwide survey of primary science teachers was pe...

    Authors: Qi Lu, Hongshia Zhang and Bing Wei
    Citation: Asia-Pacific Science Education 2018 4:5
  19. Questions are important in facilitating the thinking process that leads to learning. There are many research studies examining the use of students’ questions as scaffolds to facilitate argument construction bu...

    Authors: May Poh Eng Phua and Aik-Ling Tan
    Citation: Asia-Pacific Science Education 2018 4:4
  20. This article provides a description of science teacher education in Thailand, which is a key driver of the country’s science education reform. We describe the history of science teacher education and consider ...

    Authors: Chatree Faikhamta, Jeerawan Ketsing, Akarat Tanak and Suthida Chamrat
    Citation: Asia-Pacific Science Education 2018 4:3
  21. This action research project examines first year science teachers’ conceptions of scientific inquiry and their challenges in implementing inquiry-based lessons. Classroom observations and interviews represent ...

    Authors: Soo Chiang James Long and Yejun Bae
    Citation: Asia-Pacific Science Education 2018 4:2
  22. Participatory action research is an empowering approach to advance research with participants. This paper describes and discusses the process and outcomes in engaging cogenerative dialogue (cogen) and coteaching ...

    Authors: Tang Wee Teo, Mohamed Faizal Bin Badron and Aik-Ling Tan
    Citation: Asia-Pacific Science Education 2017 3:6
  23. Since the introduction of Learning Circles (a particular model of action research) by the Ministry of Education (MOE) in 2000, action research has grown to become fairly ubiquitous in Singapore education both ...

    Authors: Salleh Hairon
    Citation: Asia-Pacific Science Education 2017 3:5
  24. We investigated the effect of feedback order—teachers’ written, descriptive comments followed by evaluative scores—on students’ performance and learning for chemistry and mathematics in a Singapore mathematics...

    Authors: Hooi Ling Chua, Sheau Huey Lee and Gavin W. Fulmer
    Citation: Asia-Pacific Science Education 2017 3:4
  25. Students experience thermal physics phenomena from a very young age, but in Singapore their formal science instruction occurs in Primary 3 or 4 (aged 9 or 10) and again in secondary school (aged 13 to 16). Hen...

    Authors: Flavian Brian Fernandez
    Citation: Asia-Pacific Science Education 2017 3:3
  26. This paper describes the perception of a social constructivist approach to teaching and learning among Vietnamese teachers in a Confucian heritage culture and the changes these teachers undergo through their i...

    Authors: N. V. T. Hằng, A. M.W. Bulte and A. Pilot
    Citation: Asia-Pacific Science Education 2017 3:2
  27. This study investigated 59 Mainland China high school biology teachers’ attitudes toward and ethical reasoning of three socioscientific issues (SSI), including genetic modification, gene therapy, and assisted ...

    Authors: Yu Chen and Winnie Wing Mui So
    Citation: Asia-Pacific Science Education 2017 3:1
  28. The construction of scientific explanations, as a key scientific practice, has been highlighted in policy documents. However, research suggests that students lack competence in constructing scientific explanat...

    Authors: Jian-Xin Yao, Yu-Ying Guo and Knut Neumann
    Citation: Asia-Pacific Science Education 2016 2:4
  29. This qualitative inquiry project investigates the political and policy discourses related to education reform in Taiwan. Specifically, it examines the science education reform policies and policy leaders’ visi...

    Authors: Ying-Syuan Huang and Anila Asghar
    Citation: Asia-Pacific Science Education 2016 2:3
  30. This study examines how Melody, a Korean transnational girl in the US, participates in high school AP (Advanced Placement) biology class, engages in identity work, and learns science. Melody was a daughter of a g...

    Authors: Minjung Ryu
    Citation: Asia-Pacific Science Education 2015 1:4
  31. Even though humanity faces grand challenges, including climate change, sustainability of the planet and its resources, and well-being of humans and other species, for the past 60 years science educators have b...

    Authors: Kenneth Tobin
    Citation: Asia-Pacific Science Education 2015 1:2
  32. Two-tier multiple-choice (TTMC) items are used to assess students’ knowledge of a scientific concept for tier 1 and their reasoning about this concept for tier 2. But are the knowledge and reasoning involved i...

    Authors: Gavin W. Fulmer, Hye-Eun Chu, David F. Treagust and Knut Neumann
    Citation: Asia-Pacific Science Education 2015 1:1