Science Education
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Research

This page is under construction.

Members of the Science Education group are involved in different research areas:

Nature of Science

Assessment of Science

Performance-assessment tasks ahve been developed for use in Irish primary schools. These aim to support teachers in making formative and summative judgements about pupils' scientific skills and subject knowledge.

For further information consult the page on assessment.


Pre-service primary teachers science knowledge and perceptions of teaching science in the primary school.  (IASSEE)

 

Science and society

Enabling children to make links between school science and science in society