1. Editorial comments

   EditorialNotes Pages: vi - vi

2. Developing professional skills in chemistry — An initial study

   • Christopher Kirk

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 8

3. High school students' questions in biology: Cognitive levels and content themes

   • Reuven Lazarowitz
   • Orna Meir

   OriginalPaper Pages: 9 - 21

4. Pupils' learning of science in primary schools: A system-level investigation

   • N. Cranston
   • R. McAllister

   OriginalPaper Pages: 22 - 34

5. The “pupil-as-scientist” metaphor in science education

   • Colin Gauld

   OriginalPaper Pages: 35 - 41

6. Producing and choosing chemistry texts: There are better ways

   • John Edwards
   • Joanna Stewart
   • Scott Ashton

   OriginalPaper Pages: 42 - 52

7. Application of a conceptual conflict teaching strategy to enhance student learning of acids and bases

   • Brian M. Hand
   • David F. Treagust

   OriginalPaper Pages: 53 - 63

8. Enhancing teaching expertise: A case study of the process of change

   • R. Ross
   • J. Hills
   • R. T. White

   OriginalPaper Pages: 64 - 70

9. Preservice primary teacher education in NSW: A comparative analysis of espoused science education curricula

   • Keith Skamp

   OriginalPaper Pages: 71 - 82

10. Classroom dialogue and science achievement

    • John Clarke

    OriginalPaper Pages: 83 - 94

11. A most valuable growing exercise

    • Valda Kirkwood
    • Malcolm Carr

    OriginalPaper Pages: 95 - 103

12. Purposes achieved by drawing during science activities

    • Dorothy Hayes
    • David Symington

    OriginalPaper Pages: 104 - 111

13. “Reading” scientific diagrams: Characterising components of skilled performance

    • Richard Lowe

    OriginalPaper Pages: 112 - 122

14. Cognitive learning strategies and outcomes in a heat transfer experiment

    • Gloria Dall'Alba

    OriginalPaper Pages: 123 - 133

15. Problem solving and the video practical: the iron wool/acetic acid experiment

    • P. P. Lynch
    • T. Shadbolt

    OriginalPaper Pages: 134 - 142

16. Whats in a solution? A look at logic and belief in problem solving

    • Jack A. Rowell
    • Chris J. Dawson

    OriginalPaper Pages: 143 - 151

17. J.D. Bernal and science education: A tribute to the 50th anniversary of the publication of “the social function of science”

    • R. T. Cross
    • R. F. Price

    OriginalPaper Pages: 152 - 159

18. Case studies of student research projects in school science

    • Russell Tytler

    OriginalPaper Pages: 160 - 168

19. Two non-traditional measures of chemistry learning: Word association and idea association

    • Kam-Wah Lee

    OriginalPaper Pages: 169 - 176

20. Teacher classroom management styles with beginning high school students

    • Jim Butler
    • Warren Beasley

    OriginalPaper Pages: 177 - 185

21. Students' understanding of basic ideas of the second law of thermodynamics

    • Reinders Duit
    • Sofia Kesidou

    OriginalPaper Pages: 186 - 195

22. Instant use of evidence from collaborative research about physics teaching

    • David Treagust
    • Monica Leggett
    • Bill Wilkinson

    OriginalPaper Pages: 196 - 204

23. Results from the second international science study: Some sex differences for Australian 14-year-old students

    • Malcolm J. Rosier

    OriginalPaper Pages: 205 - 210

24. Countering fundamental misconceptions about light

    • Tony Fetherstonhaugh
    • John Happs

    OriginalPaper Pages: 211 - 219

25. Being cool in the cool unit or evaluating the learning of refrigeration from scratch

    • Barry Newman
    • Mark Cosgrove
    • Mike Forret

    OriginalPaper Pages: 220 - 226

26. Learning in science: Qualitative and quantitative investigation in year 10 classrooms

    • Barry J. Fraser
    • Leonie J. Rennie

    OriginalPaper Pages: 227 - 235

27. School experience in preservice education: examining some assumptions

    • Jeff Northfield

    OriginalPaper Pages: 236 - 243

28. Adult scientific and technological literacy: A review

    • R. A. Schibeci

    ReviewPaper Pages: 244 - 250

29. Ernst mach and thought experiments in science education

    • Michael R. Matthews

    OriginalPaper Pages: 251 - 257

30. Linking the aims of practical work to assessment procedures in teaching situations

    • P. P. Lynch
    • P. Webb

    OriginalPaper Pages: 258 - 267

31. The cultural roots of school biology in australia — from vitalism and mechanism to dialectic materialism

    • Rod Fawns

    OriginalPaper Pages: 268 - 275

32. Solid water is denser than liquid water: Students' experiences of science lessons in fiji

    • Srinivasiah Muralidhar

    OriginalPaper Pages: 276 - 282

33. Helping students learn in chemistry

    • Brendan Schollum

    OriginalPaper Pages: 283 - 289

34. Misleading illustrations

    • Doug Hill

    OriginalPaper Pages: 290 - 297

35. Some students' beliefs in mechanics —A third world viewpoint

    • Beno Boeha

    OriginalPaper Pages: 298 - 309