The number of science education research papers has been rapidly rising in recent years.
This number has been particularly influenced by researchers from non-English speaking …

This chapter provides a systematic review of research on the teaching, learning, and
assessment of nature of science (NOS) in science education since the time of the publication …

This chapter briefly traces the history of nature of science (NOS) orientations in science
education, notes some differences in the way NOS is defined and in arguments used to …

This study assessed the (i) ways in which, and extent to which, several aspects of nature of
science (NOS) are represented in high school biology and physics textbooks in the United …

Chemistry teaching has traditionally been weakly connected to everyday life, technology,
society, and history and philosophy of science. This article highlights knowledge areas and …

This study aims to investigate textbook tasks in the Norwegian school subject Natural
sciences and the views of science that the tasks mediate to the pupils. Natural science is an …

Understanding nature of science (NOS) is widely considered an important educational
objective and views of NOS are closely linked to science teaching and learning. Thus there …

Abstract “Nature of Science”(NOS) and “Social Justice”(SJ) are vivid areas in contemporary
science education research. There are different conceptualizations of NOS and SJ, giving …

The number of studies analyzing chemistry textbooks has steadily increased over the years
and has notably surged in the past decade. In this literature review, we examine the …

Abstract This study examines Saudi Arabian middle school science textbooks' coverage of
the essential features of scientific inquiry. All activities in the middle school science …