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Overview

Grady Venville is affiliated with the University of Western Australia. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, with a specialized focus on Education, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction, Sociology and Political Science, and Social Psychology.

The main topics in their research include Science Education and Pedagogy, Education and Critical Thinking Development, Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts, Conferences and Exhibitions Management, Animal and Plant Science Education, Educational Strategies and Epistemologies, and Education Methods and Practices.

Venville's recent publications cover a range of subjects related to science education and pedagogy in different educational contexts. Selected published works are:

  • Exploring participant engagement during an astrophysics virtual reality experience at a science festival, 2020, International Journal of Science Education Part B
  • Testing a methodology for the development of socioscientific issues to enhance middle school students' argumentation and reasoning, 2020, Research in Science & Technological Education
  • Developing and implementing an Einsteinian science curriculum from years 3-10: B. Teacher upskilling: response to training and teacher's classroom experience, 2024, Physics Education
  • 'Why can't people see or understand or make that effort to see who I am?': documenting the experiences of low socioeconomic students at an elite tertiary institution through a social identity lens, 2024, The Australian Educational Researcher
  • Gender response to Einsteinian physics interventions in school, 2020, Physics Education

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Venville include Magdalena Kersting, T. Kaur, D. G. Blair, David F. Treagust, and Marjan Zadnik.

The scholar has contributed to a number of publication venues, notably:

  • Physics Education
  • International Journal of Science Education Part B
  • Research in Science & Technological Education
  • The Australian Educational Researcher
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Best Publications

  • The impact of a classroom intervention on grade 10 students' argumentation skills, informal reasoning, and conceptual understanding of science

    Grady J. Venville;Vaille M. Dawson

  • A multidimensional framework for interpreting conceptual change events in the classroom

    Louise M. Tyson;Grady J. Venville;Allan G. Harrison;David F. Treagust

  • Teaching Strategies for Developing Students' Argumentation Skills About Socioscientific Issues in High School Genetics

    Vaille Maree Dawson;Grady Venville

  • High-School Students' Informal Reasoning and Argumentation about Biotechnology: An Indicator of Scientific Literacy?.

    Vaille Dawson;Grady Jane Venville

  • Exploring Conceptual Change in Genetics Using a Multidimensional Interpretive Framework.

    Grady J. Venville;David F. Treagust

  • Teaching Science Effectively With Analogies: An Approach for Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education

    David F. Treagust;Allan G. Harrison;Grady J. Venville

  • Using an analogical teaching approach to engender conceptual change

    David F. Treagust;Allan G. Harrison;Grady J. Venville

  • Curriculum Integration: Eroding the High Ground of Science as a School Subject?

    Grady J. Venville;John Wallace;Léonie J. Rennie;John A. Malone

  • An Exploration of Young Children's Understandings of Genetics Concepts from Ontological and Epistemological Perspectives

    Grady Venville;Susan J. Gribble;Jennifer Donovan

  • Effects of a cognitive acceleration programme on Year 1 pupils.

    Philip Adey;Anne Robertson;Grady Venville

  • The role of analogies in promoting conceptual change in biology

    Grady J. Venville;David F. Treagust

  • Analogies in Biology Education: A Contentious Issue.

    Grady J. Venville;David F. Treagust

  • Young Children Learning about Living Things: A Case Study of Conceptual Change from Ontological and Social Perspectives.

    Grady Venville

  • The Integration of Science, Mathematics, and Technology in a Discipline-Based Culture

    Grady Venville;John Wallace;Léonie J. Rennie;John Malone

  • Scientists Reflect on Why They Chose to Study Science

    Grady Venville;Léonie Rennie;Colin Hanbury;Nancy Longnecker

  • Looking Back, Looking Forward: Re-Searching the Conditions for Curriculum Integration in the Middle Years of Schooling

    John Wallace;Rachel Sheffield;Leonie Rénnie;Grady Venville

  • Bridging the Boundaries of Compartmentalised Knowledge: Student learning in an integrated environment

    Grady Venville;John Wallace;Léonie Rennie;John Malone

  • A comparative analysis of analogies in secondary biology and chemistry textbooks used in Australian schools

    Rodney B. Thiele;Grady J. Venville;David F. Treagust

  • Knowledge that Counts in a Global Community: Exploring the Contribution of Integrated Curriculum

    Léonie J. Rennie;Grady Jane Venville;John Wallace

  • Decision Making and Sources of Knowledge: How Students Tackle Integrated Tasks in Science, Technology and Mathematics

    Grady Venville;Léonie Rennie;John Wallace

  • Examining the construction process: A study of changes in level 10 students' understanding of classical mechanics

    James A. Shymansky;Larry D. Yore;David F. Treagust;Rodney B. Thiele

Frequent Co-Authors

Léonie J. Rennie
Léonie J. Rennie Curtin University
David F. Treagust
David F. Treagust Curtin University
David Coward
David Coward University of Western Australia
Larry D. Yore
Larry D. Yore University of Victoria

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