Valarie Akerson

Valarie Akerson

Indiana University Bloomington

H-index: 40

North America-United States

About Valarie Akerson

Valarie Akerson, With an exceptional h-index of 40 and a recent h-index of 29 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Indiana University Bloomington, specializes in the field of Nature of Science, Early Childhood Science Education, Science Teacher Education.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Third and fourth grade students’ conceptions of the nature of scientific inquiry

Peer critiquing in scientific inquiry: Enhancing preservice teachers' reasoning, epistemic knowledge, and scientific argumentation through innovative teaching strategies in an …

Elementary Teacher Candidates’ Experiences with and Ideas About Digital Science Notebooks

Elementary science teaching: Toward the goal of scientific literacy

Using Notebooks to Explicitly Distinguish Multiple Perspectives in the Elementary Science Methods Course

Classroom Discourse and Teacher-Student Interactions during the Enactment of Evolution and Human Genetics Units in a Rural High School: A Case Study of a Biology Teacher

Completing the progression establishing an international baseline of primary, middle and secondary students’ views of scientific inquiry

Internationalizing Rural Science Teacher Preparation: Action Research for Global Competency

Valarie Akerson Information

University

Position

Professor Science Education

Citations(all)

8231

Citations(since 2020)

2780

Cited By

6320

hIndex(all)

40

hIndex(since 2020)

29

i10Index(all)

80

i10Index(since 2020)

61

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University Profile Page

Indiana University Bloomington

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Valarie Akerson Skills & Research Interests

Nature of Science

Early Childhood Science Education

Science Teacher Education

Top articles of Valarie Akerson

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Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Third and fourth grade students’ conceptions of the nature of scientific inquiry

International Journal of Science Education

Valarie L Akerson

Claire Cesljarev

Conghui Liu

Judith Lederman

Norman Lederman

...

2024/2/11

Peer critiquing in scientific inquiry: Enhancing preservice teachers' reasoning, epistemic knowledge, and scientific argumentation through innovative teaching strategies in an …

Journal of Education in Science, Environment and Health

Esther Kataate Namakula

Valarie L Akerson

2024/4/1

Elementary Teacher Candidates’ Experiences with and Ideas About Digital Science Notebooks

Research in Science Education

Ingrid S Carter

Valarie L Akerson

2024/2/15

Elementary science teaching: Toward the goal of scientific literacy

Valarie L Akerson

Selina L Bartels

2023/3/17

Using Notebooks to Explicitly Distinguish Multiple Perspectives in the Elementary Science Methods Course

International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education

Ingrid S Carter

Valarie L Akerson

2023/11/21

Classroom Discourse and Teacher-Student Interactions during the Enactment of Evolution and Human Genetics Units in a Rural High School: A Case Study of a Biology Teacher

IJRES: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN EDUCATION AND SCIENCE

BANU Avşar Erümit

Valarie Akerson

2023

Completing the progression establishing an international baseline of primary, middle and secondary students’ views of scientific inquiry

International Journal of Science Education

Judith S Lederman

Selina Bartels

Juan Jimenez

Norman G Lederman

Katherine Acosta

...

2023/11/18

Internationalizing Rural Science Teacher Preparation: Action Research for Global Competency

Gayle A Buck

Vesna Dimitrieska

Valarie L Akerson

2023/12/25

Unpacking Elementary Preservice Teachers' Beliefs on Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Mathematics and Science Teaching for English Language Learners.

International Journal of Research in Education and Science

Mina Min

Ashley Whitehead

Cacey Wells

Valarie Akerson

2023

Case: The Nature of Science is an Important Aspect of Science, but Can My Third Graders Understand It?

Valarie L Akerson

Ingrid S Carter

2023/9/27

Action Research on Internationalizing Rural Science Teacher Preparation

Gayle A Buck

Valarie L Akerson

2023/11/24

STEM Teacher Education: An Overview

Youngjin Song

Lisa Martin-Hansen

Valarie L Akerson

Gayle A Buck

Sulaiman M Al-Balushi

2023/6/8

Contemporary Efforts Involving Globalization and Science Teacher Education

Banu Avsar Erumit

Valarie L Akerson

2023/11/24

US next generation science standards: Possibilities, not prescriptions for STEM teacher education

Valarie L Akerson

Gayle A Buck

2023/6/8

Exploring US Midwestern Preservice Teachers’ Understandings of Globalization in a Science Course

Tulana Ariyaratne

Valarie L Akerson

2023/11/24

Nature of Science Conceptions and Identity Development among Science Education Doctoral Students: Preparing NOS Teacher Educators.

International Journal of Research in Education and Science

Andrea Phillips

Shukufe Rahman

Qiu Zhong

Claire Cesljarev

Conghui Liu

...

2022

Novice teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge for planning and implementing mathematics and science lessons

Teaching and Teacher Education

Julie M Amador

Meredith A Park Rogers

Rick Hudson

Andrea Phillips

Ingrid Carter

...

2022/7/1

Integrated Assessments of K-12 Students' Science and Literacy Knowledge.

International Journal of Research in Education and Science

Claire Cesljarev

Valarie Akerson

2022

Developing Nature of Science Ideas and Orientations at the Graduate Level: Better Late Than Never.

International Journal on Studies in Education (IJonSE)

Jessica McClain

Claire Cesljarev

Qiu Zhong

Shukufe Rahman

Conghui Liu

...

2022/7/1

Using children’s literature in the middle school science class to teach nature of science: Preservice teachers’ development of sources

Science & Education

Banu Avsar Erumit

Valarie L Akerson

2022/6

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