Research and the Quality of Science Education

From Normal to Revolutionary Science Education.- Reflections on a Problem Posing Approach.- How Can Large International Comparative Studies Contribute to the Quality of Science Education?.- Towards a More Curricular Focus in International Comparative Studies on Mathematics and Science Education.- 40 Years of Curriculum Development.- Characteristics of Meaningful Chemistry Education.- Cross-Curricular Collaboration in Teaching Social Aspects of Genetics.- School Innovation in Science: Change, Culture, Complexity.- Ways of Using 'Everyday Life' in the Science Classroom.- Science Teacher Education: Issues and Proposals.- Outcomes of Professional Development in Primary Science: Developing a Conceptual Framework.- Chemistry Teachers Research Their Own Work: Two Case Studies.- The Relationships Between Primary Teachers' Attitudes and Cognition During a Two Year Science In-Service Programme.- Teaching Concepts in Contexts: Designing a Chemistry Teacher Course in a Curriculum Innovation.- Epistemological Thought and Role-Playing: Impact on Pre-Service Teachers' Opinions on Mobile Phone Risks.- Teaching-Learning Sequences Tools for Learning and/or Research.- Designing and Evaluating Short Science Teaching Sequences: Improving Student Learning.- Discussing a Research Programme for the Improvement of Science Teaching.- "Scientific Communication": An Instructional Program for High-Order Learning Skills and Its Impact on Students' Performance.- Learning about the Nature of Scientific Knowledge: The Imitating-Science Project.- The Effect of Using Drama in Science Teaching on Students' Conceptions of the Nature of Science.- The Relevance of Teaching about the "Nature of Science" to Students of the Health Sciences.- Teaching about the Epistemology of Science inSchool Science Classrooms: Case Studies of Teachers' Experiences.- A Three-Phase Design for Productive Use of Analogy in the Teaching of Entropy.- Dynamic Assessments of Preservice Teachers' Knowledge of Models and Modelling.- Investigating Teachers' Ideas about Models and Modelling - Some Issues of Authenticity.- Investigation of Effects and Stability in Teaching Model Competence.- Using Multiple Analogies: Case Study of a Chemistry Teacher's Preparations, Presentations and Reflections.- The Role of Argument in Science Education.- The Role of Argumentation in Developing Scientific Literacy.- Meaning Making in High School Science Classrooms: A Framework for Analysing Meaning Making Interactions.- From a Causal Question to Stating and Testing Hypotheses: Exploring the Discursive Activity of Biology Students.- Argument Construction and Change while Working on a Real Environment Problem.- Textbooks and Their Authors: Another Perspective on the Difficulties of Teaching and Learning Electricity.- The Concept of Force as a Constitutive Element of Understanding the World.- Changes in College Students' Conceptions of Chemical Equilibrium.- Parallel Conceptions in the Domain of Force and Motion.- A Cross-Sectional Study of the Understanding of the Relationships Between Concentration and Reaction Rate among Turkish Secondary and Undergraduate Students.