1. RISE Editorial

   • Deborah Corrigan

   EditorialNotes 13 January 2013 Pages: 1 - 2

2. Teacher Quality Indicators as Predictors of Instructional Assessment Practices in Science Classrooms in Secondary Schools in Barbados

   • Babalola J. Ogunkola
   • Ramona E. Archer-Bradshaw

   OriginalPaper 01 July 2011 Pages: 3 - 31

   

3. High School Students’ Understanding of the Human Body System

   • Orit Ben-Zvi Assaraf
   • Jeff Dodick
   • Jaklin Tripto

   OriginalPaper 07 July 2011 Pages: 33 - 56

   

4. A Theoretical and Empirical Exploration of Intrinsic Problems in Designing Inquiry Activities

   • Daniel Z. Meyer
   • Allison Antink Meyer
   • Leanne M. Avery

   OriginalPaper 13 July 2011 Pages: 57 - 76

   

5. Responding to a Relevance Imperative in School Science and Mathematics: Humanising the Curriculum Through Story

   • Linda Darby-Hobbs

   OriginalPaper 28 July 2011 Pages: 77 - 97

6. Science Students Creating Hybrid Spaces when Engaging in an Expo Investigation Project

   • Umesh Ramnarain
   • Josef de Beer

   OriginalPaper 19 August 2011 Pages: 99 - 116

   

7. Views of Nature and the Human-Nature Relations: An Analysis of the Visual Syntax of Pictures about the Environment in Greek Primary School Textbooks—Diachronic Considerations

   • Rea Lemoni
   • Ageliki Lefkaditou
   • George P. Stamou

   OriginalPaper 27 August 2011 Pages: 117 - 140

   

8. Teaching Gene Technology in an Outreach Lab: Students’ Assigned Cognitive Load Clusters and the Clusters’ Relationships to Learner Characteristics, Laboratory Variables, and Cognitive Achievement

   • Franz-Josef Scharfenberg
   • Franz X. Bogner

   OriginalPaper 16 September 2011 Pages: 141 - 161

   

9. New Curricular Material for Science Classes: How Do Students Evaluate It?

   • Sofia Freire
   • Cláudia Faria
   • Pedro Reis

   OriginalPaper 27 September 2011 Pages: 163 - 178

10. Transforming the Social Practices of Learning with Representations: A Study of Disciplinary Discourse

    • Kim Nichols
    • Jim Hanan
    • Muditha Ranasinghe

    OriginalPaper 29 September 2011 Pages: 179 - 208

    

11. Consistency of Students’ Ideas across Evaporation, Condensation, and Boiling

    • Zubeyde Demet Kirbulut
    • Michael Edward Beeth

    OriginalPaper 05 October 2011 Pages: 209 - 232

    

12. Science Engagement and Literacy: A Retrospective Analysis for Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Students in Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia

    • Amanda Woods-McConney
    • Mary C. Oliver
    • Renato Schibeci

    OriginalPaper 18 October 2011 Pages: 233 - 252

    

13. A Pedagogical Model for Ethical Inquiry into Socioscientific Issues In Science

    • Kathryn J. Saunders
    • Léonie J. Rennie

    OriginalPaper 20 October 2011 Pages: 253 - 274

    

14. At the Crossroads: The Impact of New Irish Science Curricula on First Year Post-Primary Students

    • Janet Penelope Varley
    • Clíona Murphy
    • Órlaith Veale

    OriginalPaper 22 October 2011 Pages: 275 - 298

    

15. Teachers’ Perspectives on the Human-Nature Relationship: Implications for Environmental Education

    • António Almeida
    • Clara Vasconcelos

    OriginalPaper 28 October 2011 Pages: 299 - 316

16. Argumentation in the Chemistry Laboratory: Inquiry and Confirmatory Experiments

    • Dvora Katchevich
    • Avi Hofstein
    • Rachel Mamlok-Naaman

    OriginalPaper 09 November 2011 Pages: 317 - 345

    

17. Modelling the Sociocultural Contexts of Science Education: The Teachers’ Perspective

    • Nasser Mansour

    OriginalPaper 22 November 2011 Pages: 347 - 369

    

18. Dialectical Features of Students’ Argumentation: A Critical Review of Argumentation Studies in Science Education

    • Jan Alexis Nielsen

    OriginalPaper 27 November 2011 Pages: 371 - 393

19. Students’ and Teachers’ Application of Surface Area to Volume Relationships

    • Amy R. Taylor
    • M. Gail Jones

    OriginalPaper 02 December 2011 Pages: 395 - 411

    

20. Inquiry-Based Laboratory Activities in Electrochemistry: High School Students’ Achievements and Attitudes

    • Burcin Acar Sesen
    • Leman Tarhan

    OriginalPaper 04 December 2011 Pages: 413 - 435