Explicitly Speaking: An Instructional Routine to Support Students’ Science Language Development

Genetics has become increasingly important in everyday life, a fact that is reflected in state and national science education standards. This study examines the relationship between 474 fifth graders' understandings of the core ideas of inheritance of traits and variation of traits. A confirmatory factor analysis, supplemented with qualitative analyses of students’ responses, revealed a relationship between these concepts and contributed evidence about the nature of students' challenges in learning these ideas. While most students demonstrated some normative ideas, many struggled to explain variation of traits as resulting from equal inheritance of genetic information from two parents. Instead, they focused on generational patterns of visible traits or on the influence of nongenetic factors. Deepening understanding of young students' heredity‐related thinking can improve preparation of older students for learning advanced genetics‐related ideas.

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Young students' understanding of the relationship between inheritance and variation of traits using structural equation modeling

Ibourk

Williams

Opperman

et al. 2018

Science Education

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Academic Vocabulary Support for Elementary Science Pre-Service Teachers

Carrier

Grifenhagen

2019

Journal of Science Teacher Education

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Translanguaging: Developing scientific inquiry in a dual language classroom

Garza

Arreguín-Anderson

2018

Bilingual Research Journal

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Explicitly Speaking: An Instructional Routine to Support Students’ Science Language Development

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Young students' understanding of the relationship between inheritance and variation of traits using structural equation modeling

Young students' understanding of the relationship between inheritance and variation of traits using structural equation modeling

Academic Vocabulary Support for Elementary Science Pre-Service Teachers

Translanguaging: Developing scientific inquiry in a dual language classroom

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