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Learning Science, Kindergarten through Eighth Grade:
Practitioner Resource Volume
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Building on the success of the recent consensus study research synthesis Taking Science to School: Learning and Teaching Science in Grades K-8 (TSS), with support from the Merck Institute for Science Education, the Board on Science Education of the National Academies has produced a practitioner-friendly version of the TSS research report. That volume, titled Ready, Set, Science!: Putting Research to Work in K-8 Science Classrooms is authored by educational researcher Sarah Michaels (Clark University) and BOSE Senior Program Officers Andrew Shouse and Heidi Schweingruber, in consultation with master science teachers and liaisons from the Science Learning, K-8 committee that authored TSS.
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The resulting resource book incorporates the research findings of the TSS in an accessible and useful manner intended to support science education practitioners, including science specialists, science teacher-leaders, science teachers and teacher educators, professional development providers, and assessment and curriculum developers in their practice. The practitioner report will develop extended, contextualized examples to bring to life selected findings of the formal report. Written in an accessible manner, it will illustrate findings across diverse contexts to demonstrate multiple ways in which principles of research are manifest in classroom and professional development settings. To augment the narrative, the practitioner report will draw on classroom artifacts (student work samples, assignments, assessments) and photographs of classrooms, students, and teachers in action.
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