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Ingrid S. Carter; Valarie L. Akerson – Research in Science Education, 2024
This study explored the use of digital notebooks in an elementary science methods course to encourage teacher candidates (TCs) to think critically about and reflect on important aspects of elementary science teaching. Framed within John Dewey's experiential education and the application of this work to science education, we examined how TCs…
Descriptors: Student Journals, Electronic Publishing, Elementary Education, Science Education
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Hammack, Rebekah; Vo, Tina – Research in Science Education, 2022
This sequential explanatory mixed methods study (quant + QUAL) examined elementary preservice teachers' conceptions of teaching engineering. Participants (n = 104) from two large western universities completed the Draw-An-Engineering-Teacher-Test (DAETT) as part of their elementary science methods course. Additionally, a subgroup of participants…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Engineering Education, Student Attitudes
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Ma, Hongming – Research in Science Education, 2021
Science education researchers have found that instructional design focusing more on learners' affective needs can be powerful in nurturing effective and exciting science learning. This paper reports a qualitative study exploring how learners' situational affective experiences are influenced by the interplay of their habitual affective attributes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Science Instruction, Methods Courses
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Barak, Miri; Yachin, Tal; Erduran, Sibel – Research in Science Education, 2023
The goal of this study was to examine the way preservice science teachers depict and develop their understanding of nature of science (NOS), from the perspective of the family resemblance approach (FRA). FRA defines NOS as a Cognitive-Epistemic and Social-Institutional system. Appling the dual-analytic approach via reflective drawing analysis, we…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Scientific Principles, Freehand Drawing
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Librea-Carden, Mila Rosa; Mulvey, Bridget K. – Research in Science Education, 2023
Limited research examines the critical intersection between science and special education (SPED), particularly on the nature of science (NOS) in science methods courses. This study addresses this gap by investigating 10 preservice SPED teachers' NOS understanding, NOS implications for SPED, and the integration of NOS into their lesson plans in a…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Intention
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Crujeiras-Pérez, Beatriz – Research in Science Education, 2022
This paper analyses the epistemic criteria that pre-service teachers consider when assessing the quality of a scientific investigation about friction force. The participants were 71 pre-service primary teachers working in 18 small groups of three or four participants (N = 18), who were enrolled in a science teaching methods course that addressed…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Preservice Teachers, Physics, Science Instruction
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Kinskey, Melanie; Callahan, Brendan E. – Research in Science Education, 2022
Two common reasons elementary preservice teachers have low self-efficacy with science teaching is their lack of content knowledge and past negative experiences with science teaching or learning. Holding low self-efficacy beliefs has negative impacts on both the method of science instruction and amount of science instruction delivered in the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Self Efficacy, Measures (Individuals), Elementary School Teachers
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Bradbury, Leslie U.; Wilson, Rachel E.; Brookshire, Laura E. – Research in Science Education, 2018
In this self-study, two science educators partnered with two elementary teachers to plan, implement, and reflect on a unit taught in second grade classrooms that integrated science and language arts. The researchers hoped to increase their pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) for elementary science teaching so that they might use their experiences…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Science Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Science Instruction
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Naidoo, Kara – Research in Science Education, 2017
This study examines the transformation and dynamic nature of one teacher candidate's (Susan) identity as a learner and teacher of science throughout an innovative science methods course. The goal of this paper is to use theoretically derived themes grounded in cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) and situated learning theory to determine the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Instruction, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Science
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Gotwals, Amelia Wenk; Birmingham, Daniel – Research in Science Education, 2016
With the goal of helping teacher candidates become well-started beginners, it is important that methods courses in teacher education programs focus on high-leverage practices. Using responsive teaching practices, specifically eliciting, identifying, interpreting, and responding to students' science ideas (i.e., formative assessment), can be used…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Formative Evaluation, Methods Courses, Teacher Education Programs