Table of Contents

Preface

Staff members

Topics include:

• Towards science education research that is relevant for improving practice: The model of educational reconstruction
• Computer assisted hands-on laboratories activities: Design, development and evaluation of instructional software for science teachers education
• Discourse Analysis in University Physics Class. Implications for Improvement of Educational Practice
• Assessing characteristics of teacher and student actions during instructional talks in primary science classrooms by means of video-analysis
• The process of teachers’ planning and implementation of school visits to science and technology museums
• Young people’s perspectives on genetics, identity and society using film and discussion
• Learning with simulations and their effect on problem solving in the domain of physics
• Designing and evaluating a research-based teaching-learning sequence on the moment of force
• Meaningful learning of models and modelling in chemistry education by adapting authentic practices
• Textcoherence and self-explanation in learning physics with multimedia
• A Multimodal analysis of physics explanations

Author index