Heather King

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Resource Participation

A focus on inquiry and supporting English language learners: results from a PD intervention

A focus on PCK for teacher education

A framing narrative for collaborative partnerships supporting research and learning in informal science institutions

A Learning Research Agenda for Natural History Institutions

A review of Internet-based science learning resources

A science communication collaboration between a science center, college, and industry

An understanding of neuroscience for science educators

Argumentation as part of lab work

Assessing learning in the outdoors

Beliefs about action for climate change: Key influences and implications

Bridging the gap between formal and informal contexts

Can drawings represent a child’s thinking?

Children’s use of repertoires to engage with socioscientific issues

Comparing novice and expert inquiry: What help do novices need?

Compatible or in conflict? Negotiating religious and scientific viewpoints

Computer-based toolkit extends inquiry across settings

Connecting in-school and out-of-school learning experiences

Contrasting perspectives on equity work

Current trends in science teacher professional development

Defining technology

Democratic participation and scientific literacy

Designing practical work to reduce cognitive load and increase learning

Designing professional development for inquiry-based science teaching

Developing pedagogical connections among ideas, experiences, and concepts

Do personality attributes affect a student’s motivation to learn science?

Does the authenticity of an object matter?

Dramatic Science

Early childhood teacher beliefs about learning science

Environmental beliefs and willingness to take action

Examining the skill of observation in young children

Exploring the factors affecting student engagement with science

Highlighting the value of evidence-based evaluation: pushing back on demands for ‘impact’

Highlighting the value of evidence-based evaluation: pushing back on demands for ‘impact’

Highlighting the wider relevance of science centre evaluations: a reflection on the evaluation of a physics engagement programme

How teachers’ beliefs about field trips affect their practices

How urban girls negotiate school science

Identifying implicit assumptions to support learning

Identifying Research Themes for Public Engagement in Natural History Museums

Identifying research themes for public engagement in natural history museums

Identifying with science?

Impact on science identities over time

Informal sector internships foster professional identity development for teacher candidates

International comparison of student interest and enjoyment in science

Is learning science like learning a language?

Learning from hobbyists to understand science learning

Making the unthinkable thinkable

Matching exhibit designer intentions with visitor experience

Moving away from pencil-and-paper tests

Moving beyond outcome-based evaluation in education

Moving into, or away from, science?

Museum educators learn by doing

Museum visits as part of teaching sequences

Museums less influential than Internet on civic science literacy

Native American perceptions of scientists

Negotiating the discourse of socio-scientific issues

Practitioners’ perceptions of their science engagement practices

Pre-service teachers’ understanding of climate science

Professional development through school-based communities of practice

Providing a real-world purpose for learning

Public understanding of and sense of responsibility for global climate change

Questioning the Draw-A-Scientist Test

Re-thinking learning in science

Reading between the lines

Record keeping to support inquiry

Reflections from scientists about their career choices: Key influences and significant factors

Relating culture to prior knowledge

Researcher-teacher co-design: Can it work?

Science camps and student identities in science

Separating science learning into concepts and language

Seven recommendations for supporting adolescent learners

Socioscientific issues and moral sensitivity

Sources of inspiration for STEM decisions

Student views of an out-of-school, university lab science enrichment programme

Students’ understanding of the causes and consequences of climate change

Studying interest generated by engineering design activities

Supporting learners with special needs to ensure equity for all

Supporting opinion-forming skills

Supporting STEM teaching and learning of visually impaired students

Supporting the use of concept cartoons

Teacher concerns around practical work and inquiry-based science

Teachers’ feelings about teaching about climate change

Teaching families the skills of inquiry

Teaching through place to promote cultural and biotic diversity and well-being

The benefits of fieldwork

The effect of parents’ attitudes on student achievement in science

The effect of science museums on academic achievement

The impact of gender on young people’s STEM choices

The impact of teachers on students’ science interest

The importance of drawing in the learning process

The importance of learning about risk

The meaning of science inquiry: what do teachers think?

The nature of collaborative inquiry using computer-based tools

The need for museum programs for people with dementia and their caregivers

The role of teacher self-efficacy beliefs in the success of PD

The value of both talking and writing for learning to argue in science

Toward successful collaborations between museum and schools

Using drama to understand science

Using narrative to communicate science

Using small group discussions in science teaching

Using the Visitor-Identity Model

Visual and spatial thinking in science

What makes girls want to study physics?

What makes public lectures effective?

What questions do students ask scientists?

Why do Finnish students have an edge in science?

Working in partnership with young people to develop museum resources

Young people’s choices for further study in STEM

Zoo visitors’ understanding of animal biology and conservation

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