Andrew T. Kinslow

TL;DR: This paper developed a modeling-centered socio-scientific issue (SSI) based curriculum unit to support secondary students in understanding carbon cycling and reasoning about the relationships between carbon cycle and climate change.

TL;DR: The development and validation of the Quantitative Assessment of Socio-scientific Reasoning (QuASSR) in a college context is described, finding that the four sub-constructs represent a one-dimensional progression of ideas, and that SSR is largely independent of declarative knowledge.

TL;DR: The authors studied how teachers formed curriculum design teams and how they selected focal issues for socio-scientific issues for SSI-based curriculum units and developed substantiative grounded theory to explain these processes.

TL;DR: The complex environmental challenges humanity faces require citizens who are scientifically and environmentally literate as discussed by the authors, and many environmental education programs are situated in the field where stude...,...

TL;DR: Socio-scientific reasoning (SSR) is key to helping students take informed positions around socio-scientific issues as discussed by the authors, which comprises four competencies: recognising complexity of SSI's, multiple...