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The Next Generation Science Standards: The Features and Challenges

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Jay Plasman, Michael Gottfried & Filiz Oskay. (2023) Exploring the role of high school engineering courses in promoting science attitudes for students with learning disabilities. Journal of Research in Science Teaching.
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Benjamin R. Lowell & Katherine L. McNeill. (2022) Changes in teachers' beliefs: A longitudinal study of science teachers engaging in storyline curriculum‐based professional development. Journal of Research in Science Teaching 60:7, pages 1457-1487.
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Sarah J. Fick & Anna Maria Arias. (2022) A review of literature that uses the lens of the next generation science crosscutting concepts: 2012–2019. Journal of Research in Science Teaching 59:6, pages 883-929.
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Christopher Mutseekwa. (2021) STEM practices in Science teacher education curriculum: Perspectives from two secondary school teachers’ colleges in Zimbabwe. Journal of Research in Science, Mathematics and Technology Education 4:2, pages 75-92.
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Bing Wei & Yaqing Wang. (2020) The Presentation of Science Practice in Twenty Historical Cases. Science & Education 30:2, pages 365-380.
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Gavin W. Fulmer, Jihyun Hwang, Chenchen Ding, Brian Hand, Jee K. Suh & William Hansen. (2020) Development of a questionnaire on teachers' knowledge of language as an epistemic tool. Journal of Research in Science Teaching 58:4, pages 459-490.
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Norma J. Boakes. (2019) Cultivating Design Thinking of Middle School Girls through an Origami STEAM Project. Journal for STEM Education Research 3:2, pages 259-278.
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R M Lia, A Rusilowati & W Isnaeni. (2020) The implementation of NGSS-oriented learning at engineering skill programs in a vocational high school: analysis of students’ cognitive and psychomotor profiles. Journal of Physics: Conference Series 1567:4, pages 042085.
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Ian Hardy & Todd Campbell. (2020) Developing and supporting the Next Generation Science Standards: The role of policy entrepreneurs. Science Education 104:3, pages 479-499.
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