1. Preface

   EditorialNotes Pages: v - vi

2. Research in science education: The past ten years and the next five

   • Richard T. White

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 8

3. Concept mapping: Structure or process?

   • Margaret Brumby

   OriginalPaper Pages: 9 - 17

4. Concept maps as reflectors of conceptual understanding

   • John Edwards
   • Kym Fraser

   OriginalPaper Pages: 19 - 26

5. Equations, translations and number skills in learning chemical stoichiometry

   • Peter J. Fensham

   OriginalPaper Pages: 27 - 35

6. An interview study of responses to diagnostic, multiple-choice, physics items

   • Colin Gauld
   • Kathryn Ryan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 37 - 43

7. Arrows in science diagrams: Help or hindrance for pupils?

   • Brendan Schollum

   OriginalPaper Pages: 45 - 59

8. Using socio-cognitive conflict to establish an understanding of the scientific meaning of rock

   • John C. Happs

   OriginalPaper Pages: 61 - 71

9. Children's explanation of natural phenomena

   • David J. Symington
   • Richard T. White

   OriginalPaper Pages: 73 - 81

10. Reading and the learner of science

    • Beverley Bell

    OriginalPaper Pages: 83 - 94

11. Investigation of students' understanding of speed, velocity and acceleration

    • Alister T. Jones

    OriginalPaper Pages: 95 - 104

12. Student beliefs about place value and decimals: Any relevance for science education?

    • Ken Carr

    OriginalPaper Pages: 105 - 109

13. Beginning student teachers' opinions about teaching primary science

    • Ken Appleton

    OriginalPaper Pages: 111 - 119

14. Teacher behaviours and student task involvement within small group and individual activity settings

    • Warren Beasley

    OriginalPaper Pages: 121 - 132

15. Development of a set of scales to measure selected scientific attitudes

    • Bruce Jones
    • Bill Butts

    OriginalPaper Pages: 133 - 140

16. Cognitive preferences and chemistry achievement

    • Campbell J. McRobbie

    OriginalPaper Pages: 141 - 153

17. Science teaching, attitude to health and awareness of health issues

    • Max Maddock

    OriginalPaper Pages: 155 - 162

18. Insights into students' outlooks on science with personal constructs

    • Keith Stead

    OriginalPaper Pages: 163 - 176

19. Student teachers' understanding of science concepts

    • John Hope
    • Michael Townsend

    OriginalPaper Pages: 177 - 183

20. Research on alternative frameworks: Implications for science teacher education

    • Jeff Northfield
    • Richard Gunstone

    OriginalPaper Pages: 185 - 191

21. Hands on heads: Science and the intellectually immature high school student

    • Anthony Blake

    OriginalPaper Pages: 193 - 202

22. Background mapping of teachers' cognate perceptions of asep units

    • Rod Fawns

    OriginalPaper Pages: 203 - 212

23. Dimensions of cognitive demand

    • Gloria Dall'Alba
    • John Edwards

    OriginalPaper Pages: 213 - 221

24. Investigating learning in science at the primary school level

    • Fred Biddulph
    • Roger Osborne
    • Peter Freyberg

    OriginalPaper Pages: 223 - 232

25. Tracing the origins and development of the modern science text: Are new text books really new?

    • Paddy Lynch
    • Paul Strube

    OriginalPaper Pages: 233 - 243

26. Process skills, concepts, and national assessment in science

    • Wynne Harlen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 245 - 254