CONTENTS -- Alphabetical List of the 88 Education Terms -- THE AUTHOR -- THE REVIEWERS -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Educational Outcomes -- objective -- benchmarks -- standards -- Bloom's taxonomy -- affective domain -- science literacy -- REFERENCES & FURTHER INFORMATION: -- Chapter 2: General Instructional Approaches -- STS, science-technology-society -- problem-based learning -- integrated science, coordinated science -- thematic instruction -- teacher-centered instruction/direct instruction -- student-centered instruction -- mastery learning -- reception learning -- discovery learning -- REFERENCES & FURTHER INFORMATION: -- Chapter 3 Instructional Models -- cooperative learning -- inquiry, inquiry-based instruction -- structured inquiry activity -- guided inquiry activity -- open inquiry activity -- verification activities -- learning cycle -- 5E model -- REFERENCES & FURTHER INFORMATION: -- Chapter 4 Teaching Techniques -- pedagogy -- advance organizer -- anticipatory set -- discrepant event -- graphic organizers -- concept maps -- vee maps -- KWL charts -- convergent and divergent questions -- wait-time -- nonverbal behaviors -- REFERENCES & FURTHER INFORMATION: -- Chapter 5 Assessment -- formative assessment and summative assessment -- performance assessment, authentic assessment -- rubrics (grading standards) -- holistic scoring and analytic (or criterion-based) scoring -- portfolios -- criterion-referenced tests and norm-referenced tests -- REFERENCES & FURTHER INFORMATION: -- Chapter 6 Diversity -- learning styles -- multiple intelligences -- gifted and talented -- SDAIE/sheltered instruction -- ESL, LEP, ESOL -- inclusion, mainstreaming -- REFERENCES & FURTHER INFORMATION: -- Chapter 7 Learning Theories -- Piaget -- cognitive development -- concrete reasoning, formal reasoning -- developmentally appropriate curricula -- constructivism.

misconceptions -- conceptual change -- zone of proximal growth/zone of proximal development -- scaffolding -- REFERENCES & FURTHER INFORMATION: -- Chapter 8 Research Concepts -- qualitative research -- quantitative research -- action research -- validity -- reliability -- Likert scale -- sample, sampling -- (statistically) significant difference -- REFERENCES & FURTHER INFORMATION: -- Chapter 9 Teacher Education -- preservice teacher -- inservice teacher -- supervising, cooperating, or mentor teacher -- professional development schools -- induction -- clinical supervision -- professional development -- modeling -- National Board Certification -- REFERENCES & FURTHER INFORMATION: -- Chapter 10 Documents -- National Science Education Standards -- Project 2061: Science for All Americans Project 2061: Benchmarks for Science Literacy -- Scope, Sequence, and Coordination project -- "alphabet soup" curricula -- REFERENCES & FURTHER INFORMATION: -- Chapter 11 Nature of Science -- "the" scientific method -- inference (versus observation) -- induction -- deduction -- epistemology -- empirical, direct evidence, indirect evidence -- variable -- experimental designs (randomized, prospective, retrospective) -- hypothesis -- theory -- law -- REFERENCES & FURTHER INFORMATION: -- I N D E X -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.