Teaching and Learning Sequences: Design and Effect
A special issue of Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 158
Special Issue Editor
Interests: modeling of students’ and teachers’ reasoning and skills in science; inquiry-based approaches; students and teachers understandings of models, NOS and NOSI; developing and evaluating teaching learning sequences in science education; integrating ICT based environments and specifically virtual laboratories in science teaching; science teachers professional development
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The design and implementation of topic-oriented teaching–learning sequences (TLSs) is a flourishing area of research and development for improving science teaching. One distinguishing characteristic of a TLS is its inclusion in a gradual research-based evolutionary process aimed at iterative development and empirical refinement. The development of TLS has become the focus of several theoretical and empirical studies. A Special Issue was published in 2004, which focused on several aspects of TLS, while more recently, editions, reviews, and several empirical and theoretical studies have been published, showing the continuous interest of researchers in studying the linking of research to innovation and practice. However, the explicit and implicit assumptions and decisions that affect, to a considerable degree, the design and development of the corresponding teaching approaches are less widely treated and may not even be clearly presented. The prospective Special Issue aims at providing new insights on TLS design, development, effectiveness, and iterative evolution. The authors of the papers are expected to present and discuss important theoretical issues, discuss suggested design frames and their features, methodological tools and approaches, and their evaluation. It is also desirable to elaborate on the relation between TLS and design-based research as well as TLS dissemination.
Prof. Dr. Dimitris Psillos
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- topic-oriented teaching–learning sequences (TLSs)
- TLS design, development, effectiveness, and iterative
- TLS and design-based research
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