Article
Education & Educational Research
Soleil Roper, Daniel Carpenter, Esther Garza
Summary: The study found that teachers prioritize developing bilingual and bi-literacy competence, building background knowledge, and connecting home and school for students, but they do not consistently implement PLDs as an assessment standard in science writing.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BILINGUAL EDUCATION AND BILINGUALISM
(2021)
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Brett Vahkal, Jamie Kraft, Emanuela Ferretti, Minyoung Chung, Jean-Francois Beaulieu, Illimar Altosaar
Summary: Proteomics can map extracellular vesicles (EVs), such as exosomes, across disease states and cell types, but careful consideration must be given to avoid the impact of contaminants in samples. Human milk EVs and exosomes are increasingly important in health and disease research, yet experimental characterization and functional assays still need further refinement.
Review
Education & Educational Research
Stacy Olitsky
Summary: In this essay, the author examines three manuscripts that discuss centering equity in peer review by Bancroft, Ryoo and Miles, Nkrumah and Mutegi, and Marshall and Salter. The author considers the implications for journals and funding organizations and presents recommendations for more equitable peer review processes, including the need to address biases and support marginalized communities. Further considerations include the relationship between equity and merit in peer review and the importance of fostering discussion and development in the field.
Review
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Megan Mosey, Damien Douchi, Eric P. Knoshaug, Lieve M. L. Laurens
Summary: The potential of genetic engineering in improving algae biomass productivity, pest resistance, and novel molecule production is significant. However, challenges such as varying success rates and lack of thorough discussion on underlying causes of unsuccessful attempts remain. Therefore, further research and development of effective strategies are needed for genetic engineering in non-model algae.
ALGAL RESEARCH-BIOMASS BIOFUELS AND BIOPRODUCTS
(2021)
Review
Education, Scientific Disciplines
Cassandra Prefontaine, Isabelle Gaboury, Helene Corriveau, Jacinthe Beauchamp, Chantal Lemire, Marie-Josee April
Summary: Reflection has been integrated into healthcare education programs to facilitate deeper learning and enhance professional practice, but there is a lack of guidance for educators in selecting appropriate evaluation tools for reflection. This study aims to identify and evaluate existing reflection evaluation tools, highlighting areas for improvement. Further research is needed to validate the psychometric properties of such tools.
Review
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Cheuk Fan Ng
Summary: Online distance learning is offered both in post-secondary distance education institutions and traditional universities, with little research focusing on the impact of physical environment on learning. The author proposes a conceptual model for understanding the role of physical environment in online learning, identifying gaps in research and suggesting directions for future studies.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Review
Microbiology
Lilit Tonoyan, Marlene Chevalier, Severine Vincent-Bugnas, Robert Marsault, Alain Doglio
Summary: Periodontitis is a major threat to oral health, associated with tooth loss and systemic diseases, with a new paradigm suggesting a viral-bacterial combination as a key factor. Research on the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) may contribute to advancing periodontitis research and controlling the disease. Innovative technologies are being explored to detect and diagnose EBV in periodontitis for better understanding and management of the condition.
Review
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Jeffrey S. Saltz, Iva Krasteva
Summary: There is an increasing number of big data science projects aiming to create value for organizations, but many fail to deliver expected results. The lack of established methodologies for executing these projects is a key reason for their failures. To address this, this study conducts a systematic review to identify key themes in current research on executing data science projects, common approaches for organizing and managing these projects, activities in the project life cycle, and implications for future research. The review identifies 68 primary studies classified in six categories, with workflow and agility being the most prominent themes. The findings suggest a need for further research on achieving the theorized benefits of agility and efficiently combining workflow and agile frameworks in data science project execution.
PEERJ COMPUTER SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Communication
Craig O. Stewart
Summary: Research shows that undergraduate engineering students emphasize personal attributes and relationships with peers in communication, while potential identity gaps that may hinder the formation of STEM identity were also observed in the data. Communication plays a crucial role in understanding students' development and expression of STEM identities.
JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Review
Education & Educational Research
Marta Torrijos-Muelas, Sixto Gonzalez-Villora, Ana Rosa Bodoque Osma, Eva Guijarro
Summary: This systematic review focuses on scientific knowledge among educators and strategies for improving this knowledge in higher education. The findings reveal medium or low levels of scientific literacy and low scores in the nature of science among the sample. Explicit instruction methods such as inquiry-based, solving-problem, and modelling approaches can enhance the teaching and learning of science.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENCE EDUCATION
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Anne M. McAlister, Sarah Lilly, Jennifer L. Chiu
Summary: This study explores how physical science doctoral students navigate their role identities throughout their graduate program, and identifies factors that may influence these identities. The findings highlight the importance of time, institutional recognition, advisor relationships, community in graduate school, and interest in shaping doctoral students' role identities.
Review
Education & Educational Research
Sara Soares, Matilde Goncalves, Rita Jeronimo, Regine Kolinsky
Summary: In this article, the authors conduct a theoretical review of science narrative texts as tools for learning, drawing on pedagogical aspects, linguistic features, and cognitive aspects. They find encouraging evidence that science narrative texts can benefit learning and memory outcomes at different educational levels. The authors also suggest that future research and educational practices should focus on specific narrative effects and consider the conditions and underlying processes that contribute to variability in outcomes.
JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN SCIENCE TEACHING
(2023)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Juliane Mielke, Thekla Brunkert, Franziska Zuniga, Michael Simon, Leah L. Zullig, Sabina De Geest
Summary: This study aims to review and map current methodological approaches to contextual analysis in intervention implementation studies and provides a novel framework for evaluating and mapping it. The results show inconsistencies and lack of standardization in the methods used for contextual analysis. Further development of methodological approaches is recommended to improve the quality and consistency of implementation science research.
BMC MEDICAL RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Infectious Diseases
Solange Whegang Youdom, Leonardo K. Basco
Summary: Several anti-malarial drugs have been evaluated in clinical trials, with outcomes classified into four categories. Alternative statistical methods can optimize analysis of therapeutic response categories, and network meta-analysis can determine drug efficacy rankings across different studies.
Review
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Xiuqin Zhou
Summary: Flipped learning is a teaching model where classroom activities are done before class, and class time is used for discussion and interaction among students. This approach has proven to be beneficial in vocational education, improving learners' cognitive skills and emotional states. Previous studies have shown that flipped learning enhances engagement, motivation, self-efficacy, critical thinking, problem-solving, learning skill, learning strategies, and communicative competence. This review emphasizes the importance of incorporating flipped learning as a valuable learner-centered approach in vocational education.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Kate Greer, Heather King, Melissa Glackin
Summary: This paper uses Foucauldian theoretical resources to examine England's climate change education policy landscape and understand its marginalization. The analysis reveals that the policy is lacking, responding to the climate crisis is overlooked in education, pro-environmental ambition is absent, and economic values dominate. The findings highlight the complexity of the problem and suggest that Foucault-informed analytical tools can offer insights on how to rebuild the climate change education policy landscape.
JOURNAL OF EDUCATION POLICY
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Eva Silfver, Allison J. Gonsalves, Anna T. Danilesson, Maria Berge
Summary: This article explores how female university students negotiate their gender identities to become intelligible as engineering students and engineers within the influence of Swedish gender equality discourse. Despite gender equality being used as a resource in their performances, it also poses a dilemma by limiting the possibilities for gender performances to go beyond old patterns. Nevertheless, the article demonstrates three unique ways of negotiating gender and other social categories in different situations connected to university learning and internships.
GENDER AND EDUCATION
(2022)
Article
Art
Phillipa Ellis, Heather King
Summary: Although family workshops are primarily directed at children, accompanying adults actively engage in learning through focused listening, attentive observation, seeking new information, and contributing to the group. The theory of intent participation offers a useful framework for designers to enhance the experiences of adult participants in family workshops.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ART & DESIGN EDUCATION
(2021)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Anna T. Danielsson, Anders Johansson, Anne-Sofie Nystrom, Allison J. Gonsalves
Summary: The purpose of this manuscript is to explore how students perceive that online practices have enabled their participation in university physics programmes. In order to conceptualise how students bridge their science participation across physical and online spaces, we make use of the learning ecology perspective. Data has been generated through semi-structured interviews guided by a timeline, constructed in collaboration between the interviewer and the interviewee. The findings focus on four students who in various ways all have struggled to access science learning resources and found ways to utilise online spaces as a complement to their physical learning ecologies. In the manuscript, we show how online practices have contributed to the students' learning ecologies, e.g. in terms of building networks and functioning as learning support, and how resources acquired through online science practices have both use and exchange value in the wider science community. Furthermore, we argue that online spaces have the potential to offer opportunities for participation and network building for students who do not have access to science activities and science people in their everyday surroundings.
RESEARCH IN SCIENCE EDUCATION
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Gabriella Tisza, Panos Markopoulos, Heather King
Summary: Programming and creative thinking are important skills for the twenty-first century. A playful approach to learning programming helps children engage deeply and improves their creative thinking skills. However, research rarely considers how socioeconomic background affects children's experience in programming activities. This study found that children from middle- and low-income schools had the most positive attitude towards programming.
EDUCATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Johanna Larsson, Anna T. Danielsson
Summary: This paper explores the issue of underrepresentation of women in physics education and proposes that physics teachers play a crucial role in solving this problem. Through interviews with 17 trainee physics students, it is found that female students successfully negotiate their identity as learners of physics, while also embracing the stereotypes associated with physics nerdiness, masculinity, and intelligence. This study highlights the importance of trainee physics teachers in creating inclusive learning environments for their students.
PHYSICAL REVIEW PHYSICS EDUCATION RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Kate Greer, Heather King, Melissa Glackin
Summary: This paper explores the nature of policy influence on climate change education in England during a period of heightened public consciousness about the need for climate change action. Drawing on Foucault's concept of 'governmentalities' and using data from interviews and thematic analysis, the study examines the extent to which influential individuals advocated for policy change. The findings reveal a tendency towards 'deference' among participants and highlight the potential of 'infra-political dissent' to support key individuals in influencing more effective policy in climate change education and other areas.
BRITISH EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH JOURNAL
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Andreas Ottemo, Allison J. Gonsalves, Anna T. Danielsson
Summary: Physics and computer-related disciplines are male dominated in Western higher education, reflecting a privileging of mind and rationality. However, legitimacy in these fields is also tightly connected to embodiment, contributing to the masculinisation of these disciplines.
GENDER AND EDUCATION
(2021)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Anna T. Danielsson, Susanne Engstrom, Per Norstrom, Kristina Andersson
RESEARCH IN SCIENCE EDUCATION
(2021)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Elizabeth A. C. Rushton, Heather King
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENCE EDUCATION PART B-COMMUNICATION AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
(2020)
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Anna T. Danielsson, Maria Berge
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF QUALITATIVE METHODS
(2020)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Emily Dawson, Louise Archer, Amy Seakins, Spela Godec, Jennifer DeWitt, Heather King, Ada Mau, Effrosyni Nomikou
GENDER AND EDUCATION
(2020)
Article
Cultural Studies
Kristina Andersson, Annica Gullberg, Anna T. Danielsson, Kathryn Scantlebury, Anita Hussenius
CULTURAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE EDUCATION
(2020)