Table of Contents

Foreword

The role of visual representations in the learning and teaching of science: An introduction

[Full Text in English]

John K. GILBERT

Chinese Foreword

Theoretical perspectives of science teacher education

[Full Text in Chinese] [English Abstract]

Chorng-Jee GUO

Academic Articles

1.

Change in student beliefs about attitudes toward science in grades 6-9

[Full Text in English]

Hakan AKCAY, Robert E. YAGER, Srini M. ISKANDER, & Halil TURGUT

2.

SEE-SEP: From a separate to a holistic view of socioscientific issues

[Full Text in English]

Shu-Nu CHANG RUNDGREN and Carl-Johan RUNDGREN

3.

Alternative understanding about scientific inquiry

[Full Text in Chinese] [English Abstract]

Winnie Wing-mui SO and Mei ZHONG

4.

Promotion of scientific literacy on global warming by process drama

[Full Text in English]

Pongprapan PONGSOPHON, Naruemon YUTAKOM and Saouma B. BOUJAOUDE

 General Articles

5.

Science teachers’ conceptions of nature of science: The case of Bangladesh

[Full Text in English]

Md. Mahbub Alam SARKAR & Jui Judith GOMES

6.

Assessment of the constructivist physics learning environments

[Full Text in English] 

Ömer Faruk KESER and Ali Riza AKDENIZ

7.

Student teachers’ levels of understanding and model of understanding about Newton's laws of motion

[Full Text in English]

Aysegül SAGLAM-ARSLAN and Yasemin DEVECIOGLU

8.

Sustainability in higher education: A needs assessment on a course “Education and awareness for sustainability”

[Full Text in English]

9.

Analysis of Turkish high-school physics-examination questions according to Bloom’s taxonomy

[Full Text in English]

Serhat KOCAKAYA and Selahattin GÖNEN

10.

A proper policy in the permanent teacher’s training: Key impulse of the ICT Centre in Andalusia (Spain)

[Full Text in English]

M. Amor PÉREZ, M. FANDOS & J. Ignacio AGUADED

11.

Using a conceptual change text as a tool to teach the nature of science in an explicit reflective approach

[Full Text in English]

Salih ÇEPNİ and Emine ÇİL

12.

The function module design of virtual experimental study platform

[Full Text in Chinese] [English Abstract]

Zhiyuan XU, Helan WU, Zuyuan WANG, Hongjiao YAO, and Jun CHEN

13.

From changes in education system to curriculum reform: A critique of the new Hong Kong senior secondary science curriculum

[Full Text in Chinese] [English Abstract]

Yeung Chung LEE, Chung Man LAM & Yau Yuen YEUNG

14.

A study on the current status of teaching and learning science process skills in Anhui Province secondary schools

[Full Text in Chinese] [English Abstract]

Xian-wei FANG and Zhi-wei CHEN

15.

Movies in chemistry education

[Full Text in English]

Bülent PEKDAĞ & Jean-François LE MARÉCHAL

16.

Students’ performance awareness, motivational orientations and learning strategies in a problem-based electromagnetism course

[Full Text in English]

Murat SAĞLAM

17.

Teaching creative thinking in regular science lessons: Potentials and obstacles of three different approaches in an Asian context

[Full Text in English]

Vivian M. Y. CHENG

 Exemplary Teaching Methods

18.

An exploration of how to make the air from a suspended fan cooler

[Full Text in Chinese] [English Abstract]

Nelson C. C. CHEN

19.

Developing an instructional material using a concept cartoon adapted to the 5E model: A sample of teaching erosion

[Full Text in English]

Salih BIRISÇI and Mustafa METIN

20.

Design and application of fuzzy S-P table

[Full Text in Chinese] [English Abstract]

Ai-yu CUI

 Acknowledgement

[List of Reviewers]

Editorial Board