Research themes
Researchers in UYSEG work with international colleagues on projects focusing on a wide range of topics encompassed by the themes listed below:
Research supporting curriculum development
- Conceptual development
- Formative and diagnostic assessment in science education
- The purpose and value of practical work
The roles and practices of science teachers
- Influences of science education research and curriculum development on teachers' practices
- Using philosophical approaches in science teaching and learning
- Professional development of science teachers - drivers and effects
Attitudes, participation and engagement in science
- Science education and under-represented groups
- The impacts of high-profile science on learners’ responses to science
- Education for scientific literacy
Improving the quality of science education research
- Systematic reviews of research evidence
- Methods for evaluating the effectiveness of educational interventions
- The use of large datasets in educational research
Contexts for science learning
- Context-based science curricula
- Informal science learning
- Learning science outdoors
- Science learning in museums and science centres
Curriculum projects
- Salters Advanced Chemistry
- Salters Horners Advanced Physics
- Salters-Nuffield Advanced Biology
- Twenty-First Century Science
- Best Evidence Science Teaching (BEST)
- Developing Diagnostic Assessments