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- ISBN 9780807749135
- Weight: 371g
- Dimensions: 154 x 226mm
- Publication Date: 28 Sep 2008
- Publisher: Teachers' College Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This edited collection synthesizes current research on the most promising methods and models for designing coherent science instruction. Arising from the National Science Foundation-funded Delineating and Evaluating Coherent Instructional Designs for Education (DECIDE) project, this volume combines the insights of researchers from two Centers for Teaching and Learning. The book offers principles and criteria for design of instruction leading to coherent understanding of science. It discusses how courses can help students interpret contemporary scientific dilemmas like global warming and take full advantage of technology. Too often in today's science classes, students learn isolated facts rather than connections among ideas and are unprepared to apply scientific thinking and principles outside of checking off answers on standardized tests.""Designing Coherent Science Education"" demonstrates how effective instruction prepares learners to connect scientific principles to the schoolyard and beyond. ""Designing Coherent Science Education"" offers policy recommendations to transform science courses so that they meet the needs of all students and lure more students into scientific careers. The collection further addresses how to use technology in the classrooms to design coherent science instruction.
Yael Kali is Senior Researcher at the Department of Education in Science and Technology, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology. Marcia C. Linn is Professor of Development and Cognition, specializing in education in mathematics, science, and technology in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. Jo Ellen Roseman, Director of Project 2061 at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, has been involved in the design, testing, and dissemination of Project 2061's science literacy reform tools since 1989.
