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Cigdemoglu, Ceyhan; Köseoglu, Fitnat – Science & Education, 2019
The present study specifically focuses on science teachers' views about scientific inquiry and their use of scientific inquiry in their lesson plans, which were prepared at a professional development workshop designed for better utilization of science centers (SCs). As an impact evaluation research, qualitative data was collected from 41…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Inquiry, Lesson Plans
Aydin-Gunbatar, Sevgi; Oztay, Elif Selcan; Tarkin-Celikkiran, Aysegül; Ekiz-Kiran, Betül – Online Submission, 2019
In this study, 24 experienced in-service teachers' science process skills (SPSs) development and their use of SPSs in their lesson plan through a week-long professional development (PD) supported by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (#117B302) were studied. SPSs are important part of scientists' work, scientific literacy,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Experienced Teachers, Science Teachers, Chemistry
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Knippels, Marie-Christine P. J.; van Harskamp, Michiel – School Science Review, 2018
We present a sequence of professional development sessions to support science teachers in designing socio-scientific inquiry-based learning (SSIBL) lessons to foster democratic citizenship. We focus on seven stages for enacting SSIBL: (1) introducing a dilemma; (2) initial opinion-forming; (3) creating a 'need to know'; (4) inquiry; (5) dialogue;…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Science Teachers, Science and Society, Inquiry
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Holmqvist, Mona O.; Olander, Clas – International Journal of Science Education, 2017
The aim of the study is to analyse teachers' efforts to develop secondary school students' knowledge and argumentation skills of what constitutes scientific theories. The analysis is based on Leontiev's three-level structure of activity (activity, action, and operation), as these levels correspond to the questions why, what, and how content is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Science, Science Education, Secondary School Students
French, Debbie Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2016
In this dissertation, the researcher describes authentic scientific inquiry (ASI) within three stages of teacher preparation and development: a1) undergraduate STEM courses, b2) preservice secondary science education methods courses, and c3) inservice teacher professional development (PD). Incorporating (ASI)--pedagogy closely modeling the…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Inquiry, Teacher Education Programs, Undergraduate Study
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Marsigit – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2007
Observable practices of mathematics teaching in the period of the year 2001-2003 also indicated that many teachers still have difficulty in elaborating the syllabus; a number of mathematics topics are considered to be difficult for teachers to teach; a significant number of children consider some mathematics topics as difficult to understand;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Teachers, Faculty Development, Lesson Plans