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Keith S. Taber is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research activity spans key areas in social sciences and psychology with a focus on education and developmental and educational psychology. The scholar's work includes contributions to the history and philosophy of science, human factors and ergonomics, and physical and theoretical chemistry.

The main research topics covered by Keith S. Taber include:

  • Science Education and Pedagogy
  • Educational Strategies and Epistemologies
  • Education and Critical Thinking Development
  • Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
  • Innovative Education and Learning Practices
  • Educational and Psychological Assessments
  • Various Chemistry Research Topics

Notable recent publications demonstrate the scholar's active engagement in advancing science education and critical examination of educational reforms. Selected papers include:

  • "Making claims about learning: a microgenetic multiple case study of temporal patterns of conceptual change in learners' activation of force conceptions," 2020, International Journal of Science Education
  • "Comment on 'What resources do high school students activate to link energetic and structural changes in chemical reactions? - A qualitative study' by B. Pölloth, D. Diekemper and S. Schwarzer," 2023, Chemistry Education Research and Practice
  • "Educational Constructivism," 2024, Encyclopedia
  • "Scientism, creationism or category error? A cross-age survey of secondary school students' perceptions of the relationships between science and religion," 2020, The Curriculum Journal
  • "The Challenge to Educational Reforms during a Global Emergency: The Case of Progressive Science Education," 2021, Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal

Keith S. Taber's frequent co-authors include:

  • Berry Billingsley
  • Richard Brock
  • Fran Riga
  • Xinyue Li
  • Mehdi Nassaji

The scholar's work appears regularly in journals such as Chemistry Education Research and Practice, International Journal of Science Education, Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, Apollo (University of Cambridge), and Encyclopedia. This publication record reflects a multidisciplinary approach bridging education, psychology, and chemistry fields.

Best Publications

  • The Use of Cronbach’s Alpha When Developing and Reporting Research Instruments in Science Education

    Keith S. Taber

  • Revisiting the chemistry triplet: drawing upon the nature of chemical knowledge and the psychology of learning to inform chemistry education

    Keith S. Taber

  • BUILDING THE STRUCTURAL CONCEPTS OF CHEMISTRY: SOME CONSIDERATIONS FROM EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

    Keith S. Taber

  • An alternative conceptual framework from chemistry education

    Keith S. Taber

  • Classroom-based Research and Evidence-based Practice: An Introduction

    Keith S. Taber

  • Multiple frameworks?: Evidence of manifold conceptions in individual cognitive structure

    Keith S. Taber

  • Beyond Constructivism: the Progressive Research Programme into Learning Science

    Keith S. Taber

  • Case studies and generalizability: grounded theory and research in science education

    Keith S. Taber

  • Learning at the Symbolic Level

    Keith S. Taber

  • Learners’ Mental Models of the Particle Nature of Matter: A study of 16‐year‐old Swedish science students

    Karina Adbo;Keith Stephen Taber

  • Progressing Science Education: Constructing the Scientific Research Programme into the Contingent Nature of Learning Science

    Keith S. Taber

  • Learning quanta: Barriers to stimulating transitions in student understanding of orbital ideas

    Keith S. Taber

  • Chemistry lessons for universities?: a review of constructivist ideas

    Keith S. Taber

  • The Mismatch between Assumed Prior Knowledge and the Learner's Conceptions: A typology of learning impediments

    Keith S. Taber

  • Shifting sands: a case study of conceptual development as competition between alternative conceptions

    Keith S. Taber

  • Teaching and learning the concept of chemical bonding

    Tami Levy Nahum;Rachel Mamlok‐Naaman;Avi Hofstein;Keith S. Taber

  • The secret life of the chemical bond: students’ anthropomorphic and animistic references to bonding

    Keith S. Taber;Mike Watts

  • Learning Processes in Chemistry: Drawing upon Cognitive Resources to Learn about the Particulate Structure of Matter.

    Keith S. Taber;Alejandra García-Franco

  • Student Understanding of Ionic Bonding: Molecular versus Electrostatic Framework?.

    Keith S. Taber

  • Psychology for the classroom: constructivism and social learning

    Keith S. Taber

  • Constructivism in Education: Interpretations and Criticisms from Science Education

    Keith S. Taber

Frequent Co-Authors

Neil Mercer
Neil Mercer University of Cambridge
Michael Watts
Michael Watts Brunel University London
Christine Howe
Christine Howe University of Cambridge
Richard K. Coll
Richard K. Coll University of Waikato
John K. Gilbert
John K. Gilbert University of Reading
Avi Hofstein
Avi Hofstein Weizmann Institute of Science

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