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Milner-Bolotin, Marina; Zazkis, Rina – LUMAT: International Journal on Math, Science and Technology Education, 2021
This study examines future secondary physics teachers' knowledge related to the teaching of sound waves, and specifically the topics of sound level and sound intensity. The data is comprised of future teachers' responses to a task in which they had to compose a script for an imaginary dialogue between a teacher and a group of students and to…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Science Teachers, Physics
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Leikin, Roza; Zazkis, Rina – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2010
In this article, we demonstrate that prospective teachers' content knowledge related to defining mathematical concepts is dependent on content area. We use the example of generation (a research tool we developed in a previous study) to investigate prospective teachers' knowledge. We asked prospective secondary mathematics teachers to provide…
Descriptors: Definitions, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematics Teachers
Zazkis, Rina; Campbell, Stephen – 1994
This study contributes to a growing body of research on the development of elementary teacher's content knowledge of mathematics. Individual clinical interviews were conducted with preservice elementary teachers (N=21) enrolled in a professional development course called "Foundations of Mathematics for Teachers." An instrument that…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Arithmetic, Concept Formation, Constructivism (Learning)