Katherine L. McNeill is an Assistant Professor of science education at Boston College. A former middle school science teacher she received her doctorate in science education from the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on helping students with diverse backgrounds become interested in science and learn both science content and scientific inquiry practices. Specifically she has recently focused on how to support students in engaging in scientific explanation and argumentation in both talk and writing. Her research has been generously funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). She has published numerous book chapters and journal articles from this work including articles in the Journal of Research in Science Teaching Science Education The Journal of the Learning Sciences and International Journal of Science Education. Joseph Krajcik a Professor at the University of Michigan develops classroom environments in which students find solutions to important intellectual questions that subsume essential learning goals. He is a fellow of AAAS and AERA served as president of National Association for Research in Science Teaching in 1999 and received guest professorships from Beijing Normal University and the Weizmann Institute of Science. In 2009 he was named a distinguished professor at Ewha Woman's University in South Korea and served as a faculty member in the Institute for Global Science Technology and Society Education. In 2010 he received the Distinguished Contributions to Science Education Through Research Award from NARST. . Language: English