Documenting teachers' motivation for professional learning: a systematic review

K Stark, R Sayers, E Angell - Professional Development in …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Given the wide range of knowledge and skills expected of teachers, andthe ongoing
evolution of the teaching profession, it is imperative thatteachers continue to learn …

Development and validation of an astronomy self-efficacy instrument for understanding and doing

R Freed, D McKinnon, M Fitzgerald, CM Norris - Physical Review Physics …, 2022 - APS
This paper presents a new astronomy self-efficacy instrument, composed of two factors; one
relating to learning astronomy content, which we call astronomy personal self-efficacy, and …

University run science outreach programs as a community of practice and site for identity development

V Millar, M Toscano, J van Driel… - … Journal of Science …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
There is a concern in many countries with participation rates in science. One response to
this has been a proliferation of university run science outreach programs that aim to both …

Effectiveness of authentic performance tasks: The case of a special education course

U Uluçınar, E Dinç - Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2021 - ijopr.com
Designed as participatory action research, this study aims to develop authentic tasks as
assessment and evaluation activities in an undergraduate special education course, and to …

Major outcomes of an authentic astronomy research experience professional development program: An analysis of 8 years of data from a teacher research program

LM Rebull, DA French, W Laurence, T Roberts… - Physical Review Physics …, 2018 - APS
The NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program (NITARP) provides a year-long
authentic astronomy research project by partnering a research astronomer with small groups …

The cosmic interaction: A review of the literature on cosmology, religion, and the big questions in the context of astronomy education research

S Salimpour, MT Fitzgerald - Science & Education, 2022 - Springer
This study explored over 200 journals and a content-focussed research repository to
investigate the occurrence of research on the Big Questions in the field of astronomy …

Learning to Teach Science From a Contextualized Stance

M Giamellaro, K L'Heureux, C Buxton… - … of Research on …, 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
Contextualization is a curricular approach and a learning process in which science content
knowledge is intentionally situated within a context where that knowledge can be …

The NASA/IPAC teacher archive research program (NITARP)

LM Rebull, M Fitzgerald, T Roberts, DA French… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
NITARP, the NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program, partners small groups of
predominantly high school educators with research astronomers for a year-long research …

Authentic research in the classroom for teachers and students

LM Rebull - arxiv preprint arxiv:1804.08747, 2018 - arxiv.org
With the advent of research-grade robotic telescopes (and professional archives) coupled
with the wide availability of the Internet in schools, getting high-quality data in the classroom …

Astronomy data in the classroom

LM Rebull - Physics Today, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Luisa M. Rebull (rebull@ ipac. caltech. edu) is a research astronomer at the NASA/IPAC
Infrared Science Archive at Caltech in Pasadena, California. She has been working closely …