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Yang, Yang; Liu, Xiufeng; Gardella, Joseph A., Jr. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2020
Situated in the context of an in-service professional development (PD) program focused on Interdisciplinary Science Inquiry, this quantitative study tests the validity of and further explores the theoretical model adapted from Desimone's (2009), "Educational Researcher," 38, 181-199 conceptual framework on effectiveness of PD. The…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Program Effectiveness, Science Teachers, Scientific Concepts
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Gunnarsson, Robert; Hellquist, Björn; Strömdahl, Helge; Zelic, Dusan – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2018
How do secondary school science teachers justify the model of a particulate nature of matter, and how do the arguments they use relate to historical arguments? To find out, we individually interviewed 11 in-service secondary school science teachers (certified to teach chemistry and/or physics in secondary school, and with 2 to 30 years of teaching…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Persuasive Discourse