Developing Standards in Research on Science Education

Ph.D. students, supervisors, and lecturers presented a multitude of research goals in science education and the variety of theoretical frameworks. Topics include: teachers' thinking and beliefs and teachers' actions in the classroom, the interaction between specific programs of science museums and teachers' and classes' plans for engagement with them, teaching, learning and understanding of new subject matter for science classes, different interaction processes in the classroom, discourse analysis, decision making processes in science classes and the use of models in chemistry lessons, and specific characters and the function of text when learning physics by means of computer-based multimedia.