Parents of 5-year-old boys do more math-related activities at home than parents of 5-year-old girls, according to a study in the journal Developmental Psychology by Suzanne Varnell, who notes that parents express that math is equally importance for both genders.

För eleverna blir det lättare att ta till sig kemi om läraren även använder drama i undervisningen, visar en ny avhandling.– Drama är ett sätt att variera kemi­under­visningen, precis som en ny laboration, säger forskaren Kerstin Danckwardt-Lillieström.

Strukturen og kulturen omkring naturfagene er stivnet. Mere variation og mindre fokus på fagbegreber og lærebøger kan være vejen frem til større deltagelse i naturfagene i overgangen til udskolingen, mener ph.d. og postdoc Ene Ernst Hoppe.

This study employed design-based research, comprising two design cycles to empower teachers' agency when they are engaged in STEAM lesson design. Cycle-1 focused on the application of a principle of “sustained idea-developing discourse” (SIDD) in an online knowledge building environment to foster teachers' “professional agency within teacher communities” (PATC).

The purpose of the study was to determine how students’ acquisition of Integrated Science Process Skills (ISPS) was affected by the integration of a context-based instructional approach (CBIA) with the five stages of the learning cycle (5Es LC).

Hur kan (och bör) undervisning i olika ämnen utformas? Och varför? Här reflekterar Anders Jönsson, professor i didaktik med inriktning naturvetenskapernas didaktik, kritiskt om undervisning i naturvetenskaperna.