Research Articles | Science Education & Experiential Learning (SEEL) Team

Articles and book chapters that feature research from the team.

Kirk, E. A., Sadler, T. D., Ke, L., Zangori, L. A. (in revision). Design Considerations for a Multiple-choice Assessment of Socio-scientific Systems Thinking. International Journal of Designs for Learning.
Kirk, E. A., Romine, W. L., Sadler, T. D., Elsner, J. N., Zangori, L. A., Ke, L (in review). Interest and Effort: Exploring the Relationship Between Students’ COVID-19 Interest and Information Seeking Behavior. International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement.
Lesnefsky, R., Sadler, T., Ke, L., (In Press). How Middle School Students Engage in Modeling Viral Transmission. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference of the Learning Sciences-ICLS 2022. International Society of the Learning Sciences.
Kirk, E. A. (2023). Perspective Taking Interventions and Socio-Scientific Issues: The Case for Cautious Optimism. International Society for the Learning Sciences 2023 Annual Meeting. International Society for the Learning Sciences. [Conference Proceeding]
Elsner, J. N., Sadler, T. D., Zangori, L., Friedrichsen, P. J., & Ke, L. (2022). Student interest, concerns, and information-seeking behaviors related to COVID-19. Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research, 4(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1186/s43031-022-00053-2
Ke, L., Sadler, T. D., Zangori, L., & Friedrichsen, P. (2021). Developing and using multiple models to promote scientific literacy in the context of socio-scientific issues. Science & Education, 30, 589-607. DOI: 10.1007/s11191-021-00206-1
Friedrichsen, P. J., Ke, L., Sadler, T. D., & Zangori, L. (2021). Enacting co-designed socio-scientific issues-based curriculum units: A case of secondary science teacher learning. Journal of Science Teacher Education, 32, 85-106. DOI: 10.1080/1046560X.1010.1795576
Ke, L., Zangori, L., Sadler, T. D., & Friedrichsen, P. (2020). Integrating scientific modeling and socio-scientific reasoning to promote scientific literacy. In W. Powell (Ed.), Socioscientific issues-based instruction for scientific literacy development (pp. 31-54). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11191-021-00206-1
Owens, D. C., Sadler, T. D., & Friedrichsen, P. (2021). Teaching practices for enactment of socio-scientific issues instruction: An instrumental case study of an experienced biology teacher. Research in Science Education, 51, 375-398. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11165-018-9799-3
Ke, L., Sadler, T. D., Zangori, L., & Friedrichsen, P. J. (2020). Students’ perceptions of socio-scientific issue-based learning and their appropriation of epistemic tools for systems thinking. International Journal of Science Education, 42, 1339-1361. https://doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2020.1759843
Sadler, T. D., Friedrichsen, P., Zangori, L., & Ke, L. (2020). Technology-supported professional development for collaborative design of COVID-19 instructional materials. Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 28, 171-177. https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/216087
Friedrichsen, P., Sadler, T. D., & Zangori, L. (2020). Supporting teachers in the design and enactment of socio-scientific issue-based teaching in the USA. In M. Evagorou, J. A. Nielsen, & J. Dillon (Eds.), Science teacher education for responsible citizenship: Towards a pedagogy for relevance through socio-scientific issues (pp. 85-99). New York: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40229-7_6
Hancock, T. S., Friedrichsen, P. J., Kinslow, A. T., & Sadler, T. D. (2019). Selecting socio-scientific issues for teaching: A grounded theory study of how science teachers collaboratively design SSI-based curricula. Science & Education, 28, 639-667. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11191-019-00065-x
Sadler, T. D., Friedrichsen, P., & Zangori, L. (2019). A framework for teaching for socio-scientific issue and model based learning (SIMBL). Educação e Fronteiras/Education and Borders, 9 (25), 8-26.
Peel, A., Sadler, T. D., Friedrichsen, P. J. (2019). Learning natural selection through computational thinking: Unplugged design of algorithmic explanations. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 56, 983-1007. DOI: 10.1002/tea.21545 (Recognized as “Research Worth Reading” by NARST)
Peel, A., Zangori, L., Friedrichsen, P., Hayes, E. & Sadler, T. (2019). Students’ model-based explanations about natural selection and antibiotic resistance through socio-scientific issues based learning. International Journal of Science Education, 41, 510-532. DOI: 10.1080/09500693.2018.1564084
Kinslow, A. T., Sadler, T. D., & Nguyen, H. (2019). Socio-scientific reasoning and environmental literacy in a field-based ecology class. Environmental Education Research, 25, 388-410. DOI: 10.1080/13504622.2018.1442418
Zangori, L., Foulk, J. A., Sadler, T. D., & Peel, A. (2018). Exploring elementary teachers’ perceptions and characterizations of model-oriented issue-based (MOIB) teaching. Journal of Science Teacher Education, 29, 555-577. DOI: 10.1080/1046560X.2018.1482173
Zangori, L., Peel, A., Kinslow, A., Friedrichsen, P., & Sadler, T. D. (2017). Student development of model-based reasoning about carbon cycling and climate change in a socio-scientific issues unit. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 10, 1249-1273. DOI: 10.1002/tea.2104 (Recognized as “Research Worth Reading” by NARST)
Peel, A., Sadler, T. D., Kinslow, A. T., Zangori, L., & Friedrichsen, P. (2017). Climate change as an issue for socio-scientific issues teaching and learning. In D. P. Shepardson, A. Roychoudhury, & A. S. Hirsch (Eds.), Teaching and Learning about Climate Change: A Framework for Educators (pp. 153-165). London: Routledge.
Sadler, T. D., Foulk, J. A., & Friedrichsen, P. J. (2017). Evolution of a model for socio-scientific issue teaching and learning. International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 5(1), 75-87. DOI:10.18404/ijemst.55999
Romine, W. L., Sadler, T. D., & Kinslow, A. T. (2017). Assessment of scientific literacy: Development and validation of the quantitative assessment of socio-scientific reasoning (QuASSR). Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 54, 274-295 DOI:10.1002/tea.21368 (Identified as a “Featured Article” by the National Association of Geoscience Teachers’ Geoscience Education Research Exchange)
Kinslow, A. T., & Sadler, T. D. (2017). Evolution of an environmental education program with a focus on birds: From collecting data to engaging with socio-scientific issues. In M. P. Mueller, D. A. Tippins, & A. J. Stewart (Eds.), Animals and Science Education (169-185). New York: Springer.
Friedrichsen, P., Sadler, T. D., Graham, K., & Brown, P. (2016). Design of a socio-scientific issue curriculum unit: Antibiotic resistance, natural selection, and modeling. International Journal of Designs for Learning, 7(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.14434/ijdl.v7i1.19325