A Community Framework for Geoscience Education Research

The Geoscience Education Research (GER) community is growing. In the interest of making research efforts and resources go as far as possible, the community has come together to layout a framework of Grand Challenges facing GER that will take sustained effort over many years. The framework points to areas where individual researchers can make large contributions without prescribing particular projects that should be pursued.

Framework Development » Synthesis » Closing the Loop »

Authorship and Acknowledgements »

Research Themes

Conceptual Understanding - Solid EarthConceptual Understanding - Environment, Ocean, Atmosphere, ClimateTeacher EducationSocietal ProblemsAccess and SuccessCognitive - Spatial and Temporal ReasoningCognitive - Problem Solving, Quantitative Reasoning, ModelsInstructional StrategiesSelf-Regulated Learning, Metacognition, and AffectInstitutional Change and Professional Development

Recommendation for Citations

Downloadable pdfs with DOIs are available for the entire report as well as individual chapters.

Please cite the full framework as: St. John, K. (Ed.) (2018). A Community Framework for Geoscience Education Research. National Association of Geoscience Teachers. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.25885/ger_framework/15

Cite individual chapter using the following format: Chapter authors. (2018). Chapter title. In St. John, K. (Ed.) (2018). A Community Framework for Geoscience Education Research. National Association of Geoscience Teachers: Retrieved from DOI weblink; such as in the following example: Pyle, Eric J.; Darling, Andy; Kreager, Zo; and Conrad, Susan Howes. "Research on Students' Conceptual Understanding of Geology/Solid Earth Science Content". In St. John, K (Ed.) (2018). Community Framework for Geoscience Education Research. National Association of Geoscience Teachers. Retrieved from DOI https://doi.org/10.25885/ger_framework/2