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Teaching for Understanding: The Complex Nature of Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Pre-Service Education
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Nilsson, Pernilla – International Journal of Science Education, 2008
This paper explores the development of student-teachers' pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) during pre-service education. Four student-teachers in mathematics and science participated in a project teaching physics to students aged 9-11 years once a week over a 12-month period. One-third of the lessons were videotaped and the student-teachers were…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teachers, Physics
Primary Teachers' Changing Attitudes and Cognition during a Two-Year Science In-Service Programme and Their Effect on Pupils. Research Report
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Jarvis, Tina; Pell, Anthony – International Journal of Science Education, 2004
Changes in 70 teachers' confidence, attitudes and science understanding were tested before and after a major in-service programme. Attitudes were assessed using a 49-item Likert-scale test that probed attitudes to practical science teaching and in-service training. Multi-choice and open-ended questions measured understanding of electricity;…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Inservice Teacher Education, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Primary Teachers' Changing Attitudes and Cognition during a Two-Year Science In-Service Programme and Their Effect on Pupils. Research Report
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Jarvis, Tina; Pell, Anthony – International Journal of Science Education, 2004
Changes in 70 teachers' confidence, attitudes and science understanding were tested before and after a major in-service programme. Attitudes were assessed using a 49-item Likert-scale test that probed attitudes to practical science teaching and in-service training. Multi-choice and open-ended questions measured understanding of electricity;…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Inservice Teacher Education, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers
Learning by Doing? Prospective Elementary Teachers' Developing Understandings of Scientific Inquiry and Science Teaching and Learning. Research Report
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Haefner, Leigh Ann; Zembal-Saul, Carla – International Journal of Science Education, 2004
This study examined prospective elementary teachers' learning about scientific inquiry in the context of an innovative life science course. Research questions included: (1) What do prospective elementary teachers learn about scientific inquiry within the context of the course? and (2) In what ways do their experiences engaging in science…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Teaching Methods, Science Experiments, Science Curriculum