{"title":"Curriculum approaches to strengthening student employability and improving graduate outcomes in the STM disciplines","authors":"Denise Jackson, Michael D. O’Connor","doi":"10.1080/09500693.2024.2419393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2024.2419393","url":null,"abstract":"In Australia and elsewhere, curriculum improvements are needed to improve the development of Science, Technology and Mathematics (STM) graduates for future work and careers. Several studies document significant STM student attrition, poor graduate preparedness for work, relatively weak employment rates post-graduation, and mismatched expectations of graduate capabilities by employers. The inclusion of work-integrated learning (WIL) activities within curricula can better prepare students for relevant employment by bridging discipline-specific teaching with work practices. Traditionally, access to WIL has been limited for STM Bachelor students and a better understanding of WIL’s benefits and impact is needed to refine and extend STM WIL curricula for different disciplines and cohorts. Through the lens of personal capital resources, this article reports on the perspectives of 34,000 recent Bachelor graduates of Australian STM degrees on their participation in WIL and its impact on their perceived employability and transition to work. Findings indicated differences in engagement in WIL across STM disciplines and underrepresented student groups, yet consistent benefits of WIL on preparedness for work and graduate employment. The study provides valuable insights on gaps in WIL provision and potential ways to improve WIL offerings that support the development of future-capable STM graduates with positive labour market experiences.","PeriodicalId":48341,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Science Education","volume":"48 4","pages":"535-558"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147918122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investigating early childhood education students’ ideas about microorganisms","authors":"Georgios Ampatzidis, Irida Tsevreni","doi":"10.1080/09500693.2024.2400316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2024.2400316","url":null,"abstract":"Various age groups of students often hold alternative ideas regarding aspects of microorganisms, such as their biological functions, activity and typical habitats. Taking into account that (a) alth...","PeriodicalId":48341,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Science Education","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142207283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Martin Steinbach, Carolin Eitemüller, Marc Rodemer, Maik Walpuski
{"title":"The influence of representations on task difficulty in organic chemistry: an exploration using a novel paired-items test instrument","authors":"Martin Steinbach, Carolin Eitemüller, Marc Rodemer, Maik Walpuski","doi":"10.1080/09500693.2024.2378218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2024.2378218","url":null,"abstract":"The intricate relationship between representational competence and content knowledge in organic chemistry has been widely debated, and the ways in which representations contribute to task difficult...","PeriodicalId":48341,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Science Education","volume":"249 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142207284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tom van Eijck, Bert Bredeweg, Joanna Holt, Monique Pijls, Anders Bouwer, Anna Hotze, Edith Louman, Asma Ouchchahd, Malou Sprinkhuizen
{"title":"Combining hands-on and minds-on learning with interactive diagrams in primary science education","authors":"Tom van Eijck, Bert Bredeweg, Joanna Holt, Monique Pijls, Anders Bouwer, Anna Hotze, Edith Louman, Asma Ouchchahd, Malou Sprinkhuizen","doi":"10.1080/09500693.2024.2387225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2024.2387225","url":null,"abstract":"Thinking back and forth between observing physical phenomena and developing scientific ideas, also known as hands-on and minds-on learning, is essential for the development of scientific reasoning ...","PeriodicalId":48341,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Science Education","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142207285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What I see of you in me: how do high school students position scientists in a science internship?","authors":"Pei-Ling Hsu, Sonia Ivette Hernández Frausto","doi":"10.1080/09500693.2024.2394709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2024.2394709","url":null,"abstract":"Science internship has been suggested as an effective way of engaging high school students in science inquiry. Research has investigated the impacts of science internship on students' science knowl...","PeriodicalId":48341,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Science Education","volume":"77 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142207286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Station-rotation blended learning model in science education a case study for rural classrooms","authors":"Yusuf Yılmaz, Esra Açıkgül Fırat","doi":"10.1080/09500693.2024.2394707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2024.2394707","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the implementation of the station-rotation blended learning model in science education within rural classrooms in Turkey. The research employs a case study approach to explo...","PeriodicalId":48341,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Science Education","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142207289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ways of questioning, ways of gesturing: how teachers elicit different ways of students’ thinking in elementary science classrooms","authors":"Zhenzhen Zhang, Bingjun Yang, Wendy L. Bowcher","doi":"10.1080/09500693.2024.2387224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2024.2387224","url":null,"abstract":"Questions and gestures used in pedagogical contexts have each received considerable attention. However, rarely have studies focused on the relationship between questions and gestures and what this ...","PeriodicalId":48341,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Science Education","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142207292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring the role of science education as a catalyst for students’ willingness to take climate action","authors":"Jingoo Kang, Sakari Tolppanen","doi":"10.1080/09500693.2024.2393461","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2024.2393461","url":null,"abstract":"Science education aims to encourage students’ active engagement in socio-scientific issues like climate change. While existing research has predominantly focused on science education as a provider ...","PeriodicalId":48341,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Science Education","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142207287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Characterising high school students’ interest trajectory profiles","authors":"Shotaro Naganuma, Rujun Xu","doi":"10.1080/09500693.2024.2394706","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2024.2394706","url":null,"abstract":"Students’ declining interest in science has become a significant concern. We approached this problem from multiple interests perspective. This study aimed to classify high school senior students’ i...","PeriodicalId":48341,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Science Education","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142207288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Designing and teaching socio-scientific issues online: digital curation in the science classroom","authors":"Efrat Dayan, Dina Tsybulsky","doi":"10.1080/09500693.2024.2381133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2024.2381133","url":null,"abstract":"This case study explored how Digital Curation (DC) can be applied to classroom Socio-Scientific Issues (SSI) instruction. It examined teachers’ perspectives on whether and how DC contributes to fos...","PeriodicalId":48341,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Science Education","volume":"14 1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142207290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}