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Valarie L. Akerson

Valarie L. Akerson

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
34
Citations
6067
World Ranking
6894
National Ranking
3346

Best Publications

  • 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

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

    Fouad Abd-El-Khalick;Valarie L. Akerson

  • Teaching nature of science through inquiry: Results of a 3‐year professional development program

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

    Valarie L. Akerson;Fouad Abd-El-Khalick

  • The Influence of Metacognitive Training on Preservice Elementary Teachers' Conceptions of Nature of Science.

    Fouad Abd-El-Khalick;Valarie Akerson

  • One course is not enough: Preservice elementary teachers' retention of improved views of nature of science

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  • Elementary teachers' pedagogical content knowledge for teaching the nature of science

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  • Fostering a community of practice through a professional development program to improve elementary teachers' views of nature of science and teaching practice

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  • Teaching nature of science explicitly in a first‐grade internship setting

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  • Teaching Nature of Science to K‐2 Students: What understandings can they attain?

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  • The Influence of Primary Children's Ideas in Science on Teaching Practice

    Valarie L. Akerson;Lawrence B. Flick;Norman G. Lederman

  • "How Should I Know What Scientists Do?—I Am Just a Kid": Fourth-Grade Students' Conceptions of Nature of Science

    Valarie L. Akerson;Fouad S. Abd-El-Khalick

  • The Importance of Teaching and Learning Nature of Science in the Early Childhood Years

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  • Exploring the Use of Lesson Study to Develop Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Teaching Nature of Science

    Valarie L. Akerson;Khemmawadee Pongsanon;Meredith A. Park Rogers;Ingrid Carter

  • Integrating nature of science instruction into a physical science content course for preservice elementary teachers: NOS views of teaching assistants

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  • The Influence of Guided Inquiry and Explicit Instruction on K–6 Teachers’ Views of Nature of Science

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  • Environmental argumentation as sociocultural activity

    Alandeom W. Oliveira;Valarie L. Akerson;Martha Oldfield

  • On the nature of teaching nature of science: Preservice early childhood teachers' instruction in preschool and elementary settings

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  • Exploring Indian Secondary Teachers' Orientations and Practice for Teaching Science in an Era of Reform

    Vanashri Nargund-Joshi;Meredith A. Park Rogers;Valarie L. Akerson

  • Disentangling the Meaning of STEM: Implications for Science Education and Science Teacher Education

    Valarie L. Akerson;Angela Burgess;Alex Gerber;Meize Guo

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