Improving Science Education: The Contribution of Research

Part one: researching teaching and learning science: why things fall evidence and warrants for belief in a college astronomy course designing teaching situations in the secondary school formative assessment and science education: amodel and theorizing national evaluation for the improvement of science teaching learning to teach science in the primary school manag-ing science teachers' development status as the hallmark of conceptual learning analysing discourse in the science classroom. Part two: reviewing the role and purpose of science in the school curriculum providing suitable content in the 'science for all' curriculum interesting all children in 'science for all' making the nature of science explicit shifting the paradigm on 'science for all' science, views about science, and pluralistic science education renegotiating the culture of school science. Part three: researching science education research programmes and the student science learning literature goals, methods and achievements of research in science education didactics of science - the forgotten dimension in science education research? policy, practice and research - the case of testing and assessment.