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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
34
Citations
10685
World Ranking
6820
National Ranking
3312

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association
  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Sandra K. Abell was affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States. Throughout their academic career, they focused on educational research, contributing to the field through various scholarly activities.

Abell was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2004. Later, in 2008, they were also honored as a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association. These awards mark significant acknowledgment of their professional status within the academic community.

There is no available data on their specific research papers, frequent co-authors, publication venues, or published books. Similarly, detailed information about their main fields and subfields of study or the main topics addressed in their work is not present.

Despite the limited specific information on published works and topics, Sandra K. Abell's association with Purdue University suggests a career centered on scientific and educational disciplines.

Best Publications

  • Handbook of Research on Science Education

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  • Twenty Years Later: Does pedagogical content knowledge remain a useful idea?

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  • Taking a Closer Look at Science Teaching Orientations.

    Patrica Friedrichsen;Jan H. Van Driel;Sandra K. Abell

  • DEVELOPMENT OF PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE IN LEARNING TO TEACH ELEMENTARY SCIENCE

    Lynn A. Bryan;Sandra K. Abell

  • Investigating preservice elementary science teacher reflective thinking using integrated media case-based instruction in elementary science teacher preparation

    Sandra K. Abell;Lynn A. Bryan;Maria A. Anderson

  • Does teaching experience matter? Examining biology teachers' prior knowledge for teaching in an alternative certification program

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  • What is science?: preservice elementary teachers’ conceptions of the nature of science

    Sandra K. Abell;Deborah C. Smith

  • Reconceptualizing the Elementary Science Methods Course Using a Reflection Orientation

    Sandra K. Abell;Lynn A. Bryan

  • Research on Science Teacher Knowledge

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  • "Somebody to Count On": Mentor/Intern Relationships in a Beginning Teacher Internship Program.

    Sandra K. Abell;Deborah R. Dillon;Carol J. Hopkins;William D. McInerney

  • Preparing the Next Generation of Science Teacher Educators: A Model for Developing PCK for Teaching Science Teachers

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  • College science teachers' views of classroom inquiry

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  • Constraints to teaching elementary science: A case study of a science enthusiast student teacher

    Sandra K. Abell;Marie Roth

  • Dilemmas of Teaching Inquiry in Elementary Science Methods

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  • 'That's what scientists have to do': Preservice elementary teachers' conceptions of the nature of science during a moon investigation

    Sandra Abell;Mariana Martini;Melissa George

  • Assessment Literacy: What Science Teachers Need to Know and Be Able to Do

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  • Effective Professional Development in Science and Mathematics Education: Teachers' and Facilitators' Views

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  • The Development of Prospective Secondary Biology Teachers PCK

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  • Science Education and Student Diversity: Race/Ethnicity, Language, Culture, and Socioeconomic Status

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  • Exploring the Complexity of Tree Thinking Expertise in an Undergraduate Systematics Course.

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  • Seamless Assessment in Science: A Guide for Elementary and Middle School Teachers

    Sandra K. Abell;Mark J. Volkmann

  • The inquiry level of junior high activities: Implications to science teaching

    Edward L. Pizzini;Daniel P. Shepardson;Sandra K. Abell

  • Reflections on a fifth-grade life science lesson: making sense of children's understanding of scientific models

    Sandra K. Abell;Marie Roth

  • Developing a Graduate Level Science Education Course on the Nature of Science

    David C. Eichinger;Sandra K. Abell;Zoubeida R. Dagher

  • Science Teacher Education

    J.H. Van Driel;S.K. Abell

  • Constructing science teaching in the elementary school: The socialization of a science enthusiast student teacher

    Sandra K. Abell;Marie Roth

  • From professor to colleague: Creating a professional identity as collaborator in elementary science

    Sandra K. Abell

  • Integrated Media Classroom Cases in Elementary Science Teacher Education.

    Sandra K. Abell

  • A Case for the Elementary Science Specialist.

    Sandra K. Abell

  • The Questioning Level of Select Middle School Science Textbooks

    Edward L. Pizzini;Daniel P. Shepardson;Sandra K. Abell

  • The effect of a problem solving in‐service program on the classroom behaviors and attitudes of middle school science teachers

    Sandra K. Abell;Edward L. Pizzini

  • Making the Most of Professional Development.

    Sandra K. Abell;Michele H. Leek

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolff-Michael Roth
Wolff-Michael Roth University of Victoria
George M. Bodner
George M. Bodner Purdue University West Lafayette

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