Journal articles

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The impact of teachers and their science teaching on students’ ‘science interest’: a four-year study (with Marianne R. Logan), International Journal of Science Education (2013)

There is a crisis in school science in Australia and this may be related to...

 

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Beliefs and willingness to act about global warming: where to focus science pedagogy? (with Eddie Boyes and Martin Stanisstreet), Science Education (2013)

Science educators have a key role in empowering students to take action to reduce global...

 

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Knowing and learning about science in primary school ‘communities of science practice’: the views of participating scientists in the MyScience Initiative (with Anne Forbes), Research in Science Education (2013)

MyScience is a primary science education initiative in which being in a community of practice...

 

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Can science education help to reduce global warming? An international study of the links between students' beliefs and their willingness to act (with Manuel Rodriguez, Edward Boyes, Martin Stanisstreet, Georigios Malandrakis, Roseanne Fortner, Ahmet Kilinc, Neil Taylor, Kiran Chhokar, Shweta Dua, Abdullah Ambusaidi, Poh-Ai I. Cheong, Hye-Gyoung Yoon, and Mijung Kim), The International Journal of Science in Society (2011)

In this period of environmental degradation it is essential to assist people to change their...

 

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Understanding students' beliefs about actions and willingness to act on global warming in Korea and Singapore (with H G. Yoon, Y Kim, E Boyes, and Martin Stanisstreet), Journal of the Korean Association for Science Education (2011)
 

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Australian secondary students' views about global warming: beliefs about actions and willingness to act (with Edward Boyes and Martin Stanisstreet), Research in Science Education (2009)

A 44-item questionnaire was constructed to determine secondary students’ views about how useful various specific...

 

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Australian secondary students’ views about global warming: beliefs about actions, and willingness to act (with Edward Boyes and Martin Stanisstreet), Research in Science Education (2009)

A 44-item questionnaire was constructed to determine secondary students’ views about how useful various specific...

 

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Cam McRobbie: a man for all seasons (with Gregory P. Thomas), Cultural Studies of Science Education (2009)

This article reviews the contributions of Campbell John McRobbie, Cam, to science education scholarship and...

 

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Global warming responses at the primary secondary interface 2. Potential effectiveness of education (with Eddie Boyes and Martin Stannistreet), Australian Journal of Environmental Education (2009)

In an earlier paper (Skamp, Boyes, & Stanisstreet, 2009b), students' beliefs and willingness to act...
 

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Global warming responses at the primary secondary interface: 1 Students' beliefs and willingness to act (with Edward Boyes and Martin Stanisstreet), Australian Journal of Environmental Education (2009)

Using survey methodology, students’ beliefs, and willingness to act, about 16 specific actions related to...

 

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Global warming responses at the primary secondary interface: 2 Potential effectiveness of education (with Edward Boyes and Martin Stanisstreet), Australian Journal of Environmental Education (2009)

In an earlier paper (Skamp, Boyes, & Stanisstreet, 2009b), students’ beliefs and willingness to act...

 

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Understanding teachers' 'level of use' of learnscapes, Environmental Education Research (2009)

All eight teachers and their principal, at an Australian regional primary school in New South...

 

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Atoms and molecules in Primary Science: what are teachers to do?, Australian Journal of Education in Chemistry (2008)
 

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Creating web-based environmental education resources through community and university partnerships (with Renata Phelps, Carrie Maddison, and Richard W. Braithwaite), Australian Journal of Teacher Education (2008)

Community groups often seek to engage with schools in promoting environmental education goals. A collaborative...

 

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Engaging students in science across the primary secondary interface: listening to the students’ voices (with Marianne R. Logan), Research in Science Education (2008)

Most studies indicate primary students’ attitudes towards and interest in science decline as they progress...

 

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Air-quality: a comparison of conceptions and attitudes across the continents (with Edward Boyes, George Myers, Martin Stanisstreet, and Stephen Yeung), Compare (2007)

A closed-form questionnaire was used to explore the ideas of school students about the composition...

 

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Development of an instrument: mentoring for effective primary science teaching (with Peter Hudson and Lyndon Brooks), Science Education (2005)

Perceptions of mentors' practices related to primary science teaching from nine Australian universities (N =...

 

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Students’ interest in science across the middle-school years (with Marianne R. Logan), Teaching Science (2005)
 

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Teaching about stuff, Primary Science Review (2005)
 

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Students’ ideas and attitudes about air quality (with Edward Boyes and Martin Stanisstreet), Research in Science Education (2004)

The results of a large scale (N = 1001) cross-sectional (Years 6, 8 and 10)...

 

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Completed the first year: novices’ perceptions of what would improve their science teaching (with Michael Cahill), Australian Science Teachers’ Journal (2003)

Cahill and Skamp examine the levels of confidence among selected primary level science and technology...

 

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Teacher candidates talk: listen to the unsteady beat of learning to teach (with Andrea Mueller), Journal of Teacher Education (2003)

If we are to change the pedagogy of teacher education, then teacher educators need to...

 

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Teaching about air quality (with Edward Boyes and Martin Stanisstreet), Australian Science Teachers’ Journal (2003)
 

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Learnscapes, science and technology teachers and the curriculum, Australian Science Teachers’ Journal (2002)
 

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Mentoring preservice teachers of primary science (with Peter Hudson), The Electronic Journal of Science Education (2002)

Perceptions of mentors' practices related to primary science teaching were obtained from final year preservice...

 

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A longitudinal study of the influences of primary and secondary school, university and practicum on student teachers’ images of effective primary science practice (with Andrea Mueller), International Journal of Science Education (2001)

What do student teachers believe have influenced their images of good primary science teaching? Has...

 

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Facilitating learnscape development, maintenance and use: teachers’ perceptions and self-reported practice (with Iris Bergmann), Environmental Education Research (2001)

Learnscapes are a recent initiative of the New South Wales Department of Education and Training...

 

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Student teachers’ conceptions of effective primary science practice: a longitudinal study (with Andrea Mueller), International Journal of Science Education (2001)

What conceptions do student teachers hold about good primary science teaching? Do these conceptions change...

 

Books

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Teaching primary science constructively (3rd edn), ERA Research Outputs (2008)

Written for students in undergraduate primary teacher education courses and for practising primary teachers. It...

 

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A review of air quality community education (with Iris Bergmann, Ros Taplin, and Kristina Cooke), ERA Research Outputs (2007)

This report provides a review of current and recent major air quality community education programs...

 

A review of air quality education (with Iris Bergmann, Ros Taplin, and Kristina Cooke), (2007)

This report provides a review of current and recent major air quality community education programs...

 

Book chapters

Materials, Teaching primary science constructively (2011)
 

Materials and change, Teaching primary science constructively (2011)
 

Our place in space, Teaching primary science constructively (2011)
 

Teaching primary science constructively (4th edn chapter)), School of Education research papers (2011)
 

Emerging trends and themes in professional doctorate research: doctoral research in education, Professional doctorate research in Australia: commentary and case studies from business, education and indigenous studies (2009)
 

School science and environmental education, The world of science education: handbook of research in Australasia (2009)
 

Materials, Teaching primary science constructively (2008)
 

Materials and change, Teaching primary science constructively (2008)
 

Our place in space, Teaching primary science constructively (2008)
 

Teaching primary science constructively, Teaching primary science constructively (2008)
 

Conference presentations

Implementation of science based on the 5E learning model: insights from teacher feedback on trial Primary Connections units (with Shelley Peers), Australasian Science Education Research Association Conference (2012)
 

Teachers’ implementation of primary connections: insights from teacher feedback (with Shelley Peers), CONASTA 61: Conference of the Australian Science Teachers' Association (2012)
 

Student mental models of global warming and climate change: what does research tell us? (with Eddie Boyes, Martin Stanisstreet, M Rodriguez, Georigios Malandrakis, Roseanne Fortner, Ahmet Kilinc, N Taylor, Kiran Chhokar, Shweta Dua, Abdullah Ambusaidi, I P-A Cheong, M Kim, and Hye-Gyoung Yoon), National Research Council Workshop on Climate Change Education in Formal Settings, K-14 (2011)
 

Secondary students’ beliefs and willingness to act to reduce global warming: an international study (with Eddie Boyes, Martin Stanisstreet, Manuel Rodriguez, Georgios Malandrakis, Roseanne Fortner, Ahmet Kilinc, Neil Taylor, Dua Shweta Choker Kiran, Ambusaidi Abdullah, Irene Cheong, Mijung Kim, and Hye-Gyoung Yoon), World Environmental Education Congress (2011)
 

Secondary students’ beliefs and willingness to act to reduce global warming: an international study related to transport options and its consequences for science education (with Eddie Boyes, Martin Stanisstreet, Manuel Rodriguez, Georgios Malandrakis, Roseanne Fortner, Ahmet Kilinc, Neil Taylor, Dua Shweta Choker Kiran, Abdullah Ambusaidi, Irene Cheong, Mijung Kim, and Hye-Gyonug Yoon), Australasian Science Education Research Association Conference (2011)
 

Students’ beliefs and willingness to take specific actions to reduce global warming (with Eddie Boyes and Martin Stanisstreet), Celebrating diversity in science, in learning, in the environment: CONASTA 59: the annual conference of the Australian Science Teachers Association (2010)
 

A comparative study: beliefs and willingness to act about global warming: comparing secondary students' responses in Australia and England (with Edward Boyes and Martin Stanisstreet), 40th Australasian Science Education Research Conference (2009)
 

'Australian secondary students secondary students' views about global warming: beliefs about actions, and willingness to act (with Edward Boyes and Martin Stanisstreet), 15th Australian Association for Environmental Education Conference (2008)

NSW secondary students’ views (n=500) about how useful various specific actions might be at reducing...

 

Secondary student views of global warming: beliefs actions and willingness to act (with Edward Boyes and Martin Stanisstreet), Proceedings of Environmental education up the track: hot topics for our community: 15th biennial National Conference of Australian Association for Environmental Education (2008)

NSW secondary students’ views (n=500) about how useful various specific actions might be at reducing...

 

Sustainable development: doing what you believe to be helpful for global warming (with Edward Boyes, Martin Stanisstreet, M Rodriquez, R Fortner, and G Malandrakis), American Education Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting (2008)
 

Global warming: do students become more willing to be environmentally friendly as they get older? (with Edward Boyes and Martin Stanisstreet), Proceedings of 38th annual conference of Australasian Science Education Research Association (2007)
 

Changes in students' attitudes towards, and interest in, science over the transition years (with Marianne R. Logan), 37th Annual Conference of the Australasian Science Education Research Association (2006)
 

Final year primary students' perspectives on school science: a transition study (with Marianne R. Logan), 36th Annual Conference of the Australian Science Education Research Association (2005)
 

Looking at students' attitudes to science in late primary school and junior secondary school (with Marianne R. Logan), 35th Annual Conference of the Australasian Science Education Research Association (2004)
 

Teachers' perceptions of learnscapes: two years on, Proceedings of 13th biennial Conference of the Australian Association for Environmental Education (2004)
 

Air quality: comparative conceptions and attitudes across the continents (with Edward Boyes, Martin Stanisstreet, and Stephen Yeung), American Education Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting (2003)
 

An evaluation of a mentoring intervention for developing mentees' primary science teaching (with Peter Hudson), Proceedings of 34th Annual Conference of the Australian Science Education Research Association (2003)
 

Conceptions of air quality: an international study (with Edward Boyes and Martin Stanisstreet), Proceedings of 12th biennial Conference of the Australian Association for Environmental Education (2002)
 

Conceptions of air quality: an international study (Presentation) (with Edward Boyes and Martin Stanisstreet), Proceedings of 33th Annual Conference of the Australasian Science Education Research Association (2002)
 

Perceived organizational climate and internet self-efficacy: identifying the best climate to promote e-learning (with J D. Burnett and Allan Ellis), Proceedings of E-Learn 2002 World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education (2002)
 

Teacher candidates report on 'warming up' to teach: how might teacher educators respond? (with Andrea Mueller), Challenging futures - Changing agendas in teacher education : Papers from the Challenging Futures Conference (2002)
 

Mentoring preservice teachers in primary science (with Peter Hudson), Proceedings of 32nd Annual Conference of the Australasian Science Education Research Association (2001)
 

Mentoring preservice teachers of elementary science (with Peter Hudson), Science Teachers' Association of Ontario Conference (2001)
 

Environmental concepts: important and neglected?, Southern Crossings : pointers for change ; conference proceedings for the International Association for Environmental Education Inc., International Conference on Environmental Education (2000)
 

From preservice to novice teacher: factors influencing the teaching of primary science and technology (with Michael Cahill), Proceedings of 31st Annual Conference of the Australasian Science Education Research Association (2000)
 

Teachers' perceptions of the value and impact of learnscapes: implications for practice, Proceedings of 11th biennial Conference of the Australian Association for Environmental Education (2000)
 

Teaching about space constructively, Primary Science Seminar (PRISSWM): annual meeting of the Primary Science Teachers of the Queensland Science Teachers' Association (2000)
 

Reports

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Teaching primary science: trial-teacher feedback on the implementation of PrimaryConnections and the 5E model, Australian Academy of Science (2012)

This report (Teaching primary science: Trial-teacher feedback on the implementation of PrimaryConnections and the 5E...