The aim of the study was to follow a group of pupils from the age of twelve until they leave lower secondary school at the age of sixteen to describe and analyse how their attitudes towards and interest in science and ...

The main purposes of this thesis were to study the students’ learning outcome and the teachers’ response to a proposed new way of teaching based on research in science education, in the field of optics. The theoretical ...

The overall purpose of this thesis is to study how upper secondary school students (grade 10-12) develop an understanding of evolutionary biology as a result of teaching. Taking students’ preconceptions as the starting ...