Adolescent Development in School Science

Overview of the seminar, Ann C.Howe and Paul Thompsen; research on advanced reasoning, concept acquisition, and a theory of science instruction, Anton Lane and Mary Simpson; hewers of wood and drawers of water? or populations in change?, Michael Shaer and Pinchas Tamir; theory into practice - how to assist science teachers to teach constructively, Peter Fensham and Ann C.Howe; changing conceptions, Rosalind Driver and Joan Solomon; physics education and students' development, Maie-Genevieve Sere et al; science teaching from a developmental perspective - the importance of central conceptual skills, Robbie Case and Trevor Bond; beyond the cognitive, ed.John Head; the affective constraints on learning science, John Head; gender and the image of science, Svein Sjoberg; imagery, cognition, and spatial ability, Ann C.Howe; Piaget and interests in science subjects, Fritz Kubli; the social constraints on learning science, ed.John Head; social influence or cognitive growth?, Joan Solomon; a social critique of cognitively based science curricula, Peter Kutnick; conceptual demands of science courses and social class, Ana M.Domingos; models in action - the use of metacognitive tools to facilitate meaningful learning, Joseph D.Novak; cognitive acceleration - the effects of two years of intervention in science classes, Philip Adey et al; didactical transpositions and pupils' learning, P.Koumaras et al; children's conceptions of science, ed.Joan Bliss; research on student alternative framework in science-perspectives from the Federal Republic of Germany, Reiners Duit; a commonsense theory of motion - a theoretical and empirical approach, Joan Bliss; students' conception of matter, Ruth Stavy; some detail - secondary school student's and biology student teachers' attributes of cause and effect relationships in biological situations requiring suspension of judgement, Ehud Jungwirth; development of a new science study unit following research on students' ideas about photosynthesis; Yehudit Eisen and Ruth Stavy; a study of students' alternative frameworks in stochiometry, Hans-Yurgen Schmidt; science practical process skills of ninth grade students in Israel, Pinchars Tamir; formal operations - its validity and application to science learning, ed.Michael Shayer; constructing formal operations, Leslie Smith; an investigation of the scaling of Piagetian formal operations, Trevor Bond; the application of a Rasch model on Piagetan measures of stages of thinking, Jarkko Hautamaki; cognitive structure mapping as a tool in science teaching, Peter Matthews.