Table of Contents

Preface

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Editorial Board

Foreword

The implementation of the educational achievement study of the science curriculum

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Baoshan YANG

Academic Articles

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Assessing preservice elementary teachers’ views on the nature of scientific knowledge: A dual-response instrument

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Ling L. LIANG, Sufen CHEN, Xian CHEN, Osman Nafiz KAYA,
April Dean ADAMS, Monica MACKLIN and Jazlin EBENEZER

2.

Utilization of attitude maps in evaluating teachers' attitudes towards assessment

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Feral OGAN-BEKIROGLU

3.

Challenges encountered in implementing constructivist teaching in physics: A qualitative approach

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Wheijen CHANG

4.

The effect of scientific process skills education on students’ scientific creativity, science attitudes and academic achievements

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Hilal AKTAMIS & Ömer ERGIN

General Articles

5.

Using different conceptual change methods embedded within 5E model: A sample teaching of Endothermic – Exothermic reactions

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Fatma TÜRK & Muammer ÇALIK

6.

Discussion on the enlightenment of the examination content reform on college students’ study ——Taking an open question of college Physics examination as an example

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Xiuli BAI, Honghong ZHU & Xishun XIE

7.

Students’ understanding of light concepts primary school: A cross-age study

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Çigdem SAHIN, Hava IPEK & Alipasa AYAS

8.

The knowledge of DNA and DNA technologies among pre-service science teachers

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Osman CARDAK and Musa DIKMENLI

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The views of the classroom teacher candidates related to the environmental science course and the environmental sensibility

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Nilgün YENICE, A. Seda SARACALOGLU & Ö. Cem KARACAOGLU

10.

Fostering primary school students’ understanding of cells and other related concepts with interactive computer animation instruction accompanied by teacher and student-prepared concept maps

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Ercan AKPINAR & Omer ERGIN

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Effectiveness of the conceptual change texts accompanied by concept maps about students’ understanding of the molecules carrying genetical information

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Ibrahim TASTAN, Musa DIKMENLI & Osman CARDAK

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An analysis of applied mechanics contest for senior high school students in Taiwan

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Nelson Cheng-Chih CHEN, Ching-Hao CHEN & Ming-chun LIN

Special Section - Review on Science Assessment  

Special Section Preface

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Special Editor: Baoshan YANG

13.

APU science assessment in the United Kingdom

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Yeung Chung LEE

14.

Review on assessment of students’ academic achievements studies in China

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Mei ZHONG

15.

Investigating Taiwanese 9th-graders’ scientific literacy via authentic assessment

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Shu-Nu CHANG

16.

Primary science learning of Hong Kong through the lens of TIMSS

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Winnie Wing-mui SO

17.

The science assessment in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) of USA

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Helan WU, Yau-yuen YEUNG and May-hung CHENG

18.

An introduction to the assessment framework of the TIMSS 2007

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Jun HU

 Acknowledgement

[List of Reviewers]

Editorial Board