Geoscience educational publications are reviewed in seven areas to identify future
directions for curriculum development, professional development and research. The review …

The National Science Foundation funded a synthesis study on the status, contributions, and
future direction of discipline-based education research (DBER) in physics, biological …

Seventy-nine studies in geoscience conceptions appeared in peer-reviewed publications in
English from 1982 through July 2009. Summaries of the 79 studies suggest certain recurring …

This paper organizes and analyses over 500 geoscience misconceptions relating to
earthquakes, earth structure, geologic resources, glaciers, historical geology, karst …

Assessment of learning in entry-level college science courses is of interest to a wide variety
of faculty, administrators, and policy-makers. The question of student preparedness for …

Surveys of the earth science content of all secondary (high school) science textbooks and
related publications used in England and Wales have revealed high levels of …

The purpose of this study was to investigate the contribution of a computer simulation to
students' learning of physics concepts (weight and mass). Our simulation was produced …

This report comes at a time when our nation and our species face profound challenges.
Ensuring adequate food, water, energy, and mineral resources to support a growing human …

The aims of this study were considered under three headings. The first was to elicit
misconception that science and physics student teachers (pre-service teachers) had about …

College student conceptions of the scale of geologic time and the relationships between
time and geological or biological events were evaluated through interviews, open-ended …