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  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Fouad Abd-El-Khalick is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of social sciences and psychology, with a focus on education and its related subfields including developmental and educational psychology, management, monitoring, policy and law, as well as social psychology.

The scientist's work concentrates on various topics within education and science pedagogy. Key research areas include science education and pedagogy, education and critical thinking development, educational strategies and epistemologies, evaluation of teaching practices, environmental education and sustainability, animal and plant science education, and innovative teaching methods.

Fouad Abd-El-Khalick has participated in several publications, mainly in the "Journal of Research in Science Teaching" and "Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America."

  • The Nature of Scientific Explanation: Examining the perceptions of the nature, quality, and "goodness" of explanation among college students, science teachers, and scientists (2022, Journal of Research in Science Teaching)
  • Development of VAScoR: A rubric to qualify and score responses to the views of nature of science (VNOS) questionnaire (2023, Journal of Research in Science Teaching)
  • Editors' report: Reflections for the Journal of Research in Science Teaching (2015-2020) (2020, Journal of Research in Science Teaching)
  • INQUIRY AND TEACHING ABOUT NATURE OF SCIENCE IN COLLEGE GEOSCIENCE COURSES (2022, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America)

Frequent co-authors in their research include Jeanne L. Brunner, Sahar Alameh, David E. Brown, Ryan Summers, and Jeremy J. Belarmino.

Fouad Abd-El-Khalick's contributions to the academic community have been recognized through awards such as being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Views of nature of science questionnaire: Toward valid and meaningful assessment of learners' conceptions of nature of science

    Norm G. Lederman;Fouad Abd-El-Khalick;Randy L. Bell;Renée S. Schwartz

  • Improving Science Teachers' Conceptions of Nature of Science: A Critical Review of the Literature.

    Fouad Abd-El-Khalick;Norman G. Lederman

  • The nature of science and instructional practice: Making the unnatural natural

    Fouad Abd-El-Khalick;Randy L. Bell;Norman G. Lederman

  • Influence of Explicit and Reflective versus Implicit Inquiry-Oriented Instruction on Sixth Graders' Views of Nature of Science.

    Rola Khishfe;Fouad Abd-El-Khalick

  • Inquiry in science education: International perspectives

    Fouad Abd-El-Khalick;Saouma Boujaoude;Richard Duschl;Norman G. Lederman

  • The influence of history of science courses on students' views of nature of science

    Fouad Abd-El-Khalick;Norman G. Lederman

  • Influence of a Reflective Explicit Activity-based Approach on Elementary Teachers' Conceptions of Nature of Science.

    Valarie L. Akerson;Fouad Abd-El-Khalick;Norman G. Lederman

  • Avoiding De-Natured Science: Activities that Promote Understandings of the Nature of Science

    Norman Lederman;Fouad Abd-El-Khalick

  • Learning as conceptual change: Factors mediating the development of preservice elementary teachers' views of nature of science

    Fouad Abd-El-Khalick;Valarie L. Akerson

  • Developing and acting upon one's conception of the nature of science: A follow-up study

    Randy L. Bell;Norman G. Lederman;Fouad Abd-El-Khalick

  • Representations of nature of science in high school chemistry textbooks over the past four decades

    Fouad Abd-El-Khalick;Mindy Waters;An Phong Le

  • An Exploratory Study of the Knowledge Base for Science Teaching

    Fouad Abd-El-Khalick;Fouad Abd-El-Khalick;Saouma BouJaoude

  • Embedding Nature of Science Instruction in Preservice Elementary Science Courses: Abandoning Scientism, But...

    Fouad Abd-El-Khalick

  • Developing deeper understandings of nature of science: the impact of a philosophy of science course on preservice science teachers’ views and instructional planning

    Fouad Abd-El-Khalick

  • Teaching With and About Nature of Science, and Science Teacher Knowledge Domains

    Fouad Abd-El-Khalick

  • Turkish grade 10 students' and science teachers' conceptions of nature of science: A national study

    Nihal Dogan;Fouad Abd-El-Khalick

  • Examining the Sources for Our Understandings about Science: Enduring Conflations and Critical Issues in Research on Nature of Science in Science Education.

    Fouad Abd-El-Khalick

  • Teaching elements of nature of science: A yearlong case study of a fourth‐grade teacher

    Valarie L. Akerson;Fouad Abd-El-Khalick

  • Lebanese Secondary School Students' Environmental Knowledge and Attitudes

    Maha Haidar Makki;Fouad Abd-El-Khalick;Saouma Boujaoude

  • Pre‐service teachers’ understanding and teaching of nature of science: An intervention study

    Norman G. Lederman;Reneé S. Schwartz;Fouad Abd‐El‐Khalick;Randy L. Bell

Frequent Co-Authors

Norman G. Lederman
Norman G. Lederman Illinois Institute of Technology
Dana L. Zeidler
Dana L. Zeidler University of South Florida
Mansoor Niaz
Mansoor Niaz Universidad de Oriente
Michael R. Matthews
Michael R. Matthews University of New South Wales
Richard A. Duschl
Richard A. Duschl Pennsylvania State University
Bill Cope
Bill Cope University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mary Kalantzis
Mary Kalantzis University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
David F. Treagust
David F. Treagust Curtin University
Avi Hofstein
Avi Hofstein Weizmann Institute of Science
Caroline Haythornthwaite
Caroline Haythornthwaite Syracuse University

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