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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

In recent years, research that doesn’t fit narrowly defined priorities has increasingly come under attack regardless of its ...

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.

DOHA: Twenty teachers and vice-principals from independent schools in Qatar boosted their teaching skills at a summer training programme on energy and the environment held at the University of Cyprus.

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 ...