This book brings together international researchers to consider what constitutes evidence of high quality science teaching, on what basis such evidence can be judged, and how such evidence reflects the knowledge basis of the modern day science teacher.

Sandra K. Abell - Science Classroom Assessment: What Teachers Need to KnowGlen Aikenhead - A Cultural View of Quality Science Teaching .- Amanda Berry & John Loughran - Making a case for improving practice: What can be learned about high quality science teaching from teacher produced cases?.- Debbie Corrigan & Dick Gunstone - An approach to elaborating aspects of a knowledge base for expert science teaching .- Maria Evagorou & Justin Dillon - Considering teachers’ instructional practices in argumentationPeter Fensham - Science teachers and the knowledge society.- Helmut Fischler - Didaktik – An appropriate framework for the professional work of science teachers?.- Beverley Jane and Jill Robbins – Teacher professional knowledge for foundation physics: Block play in early childhood education .- Alister Jones & Bronwyn Cowie – Enhancing teachers’ knowledges to enhance quality classroom interactions..- Stephen Keast & Rebecca Cooper – Developing the knowledge base of preservice science teachers – starting the path towards expertise .- Hongming Ma - Chinese teachers’ views of teaching culturally related knowledge in school science.- Alex Manning - Teachers’ views and experiences of working in an urban science department.- Sandy Martinuk, Anthony Clarke & Gaalen Erickson - Re-interpreting the teaching of Physics for non-majors: Motivations, constraints, and evolutions in curricular change.- Masakata Ogawa - RIKA (Japanese school science) Teachers’ Indigenized Professional Knowledge of RIKA Teaching: From Analysis of Their Discourses on Notions of RIKA Teaching.- Debra Panizzon – Teaching secondary science in rural and remote contexts: Developing appropriate pedagogical knowledge and classroom practice.- Léonie J. Rennie - Moving Beyond the Classroom: What Professional Knowledge Underpins Quality in Science Teaching?.- Lynn Uyen Tran & Heather King – Science educators in informal environments: Pedagogicalknowledge for educational professionals working outside of schools.

Over the past twenty years much has been written about the knowledge bases claimed to be needed for teaching science. Aspects of this knowledge have changed over the last 20 years because of shifts in curriculum thinking. There is sharply increasing significance for the knowledge bases for science teaching in current trends in school science education. With the development of a standards-based approach to the quality of science teaching becoming increasingly common in the Western world, and phrases such as evidence-based practice becoming the catch-cry of attempts to "measure" such quality, it is timely to look at what constitutes evidence of quality science teaching, on what basis can such evidence be judged and how does such evidence reflect the knowledge basis of the modern day professional science teacher.

The time is ripe for a collection of writings (an edited book) that considers the knowledge bases seen to be required for science teaching. This book will bring together an international group of researchers who have researched and worked with science teachers in a number of ways and at the full range of educational levels/contexts in an attempt to make more explicit what can constitute valid evidence for making judgements about what is quality science teaching.