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Karademir, Abdulhamit; Yildirim, Bekir – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2021
This study aimed to determine the views of thirty preservice preschool teachers recruited using convenience sampling on STEM education and engineering. Phenomenology was the design of choice. Data were collected using a semi-structured interview form and analyzed using inductive content analysis. Participants offered different definitions of STEM…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Preservice Teachers, Preschool Teachers, Phenomenology
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Basaran, Semra Tican; Sidekli, Sabri – European Educational Researcher, 2021
The purpose of this study is to reveal the views and recommendations of the preschool and primary school teachers on the literacy preparation in Turkish preschool education. The study is designed as phenomenological research. The participants of the study are 12 preschool and 9 primary school teachers who have been teaching actively in the western…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy Education, School Readiness, Preschool Children
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Yagmur-Kolcu, Emel; Öztuna-Kaplan, Aysun – African Educational Research Journal, 2020
The purpose of this study is to determine how adequate preschool teachers considered themselves in the field of science, to determine their awareness on this subject and to find out how adequate they are in the field of science. This study was planned by using a phenomenological approach among the qualitative research methods and was carried out…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Science Education
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Nurnberger-Haag, Julie – Early Education and Development, 2017
Research Findings: Children's conceptions of shapes, including misconceptions, are quite robust by 6 years old and persist into adulthood, so it is important to inspect early sources of these conceptions. This study aimed to uncover whether children's books about shapes could be a source of inaccurate initial learning that remains with many adults…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Misconceptions, Geometric Concepts, Content Analysis
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Dös, Bülent; Bay, Erdal; Aslansoy, Ceyda; Tiryaki, Betül; Çetin, Nurgül; Duman, Cevahir – Educational Research and Reviews, 2016
Questioning has been utilized as a critical assessment tool for centuries. It has been thought that there is a relationship between asking good questions and effective teaching. In order to analyze teachers' questioning strategies from various aspects, this study was conducted during the 2014-2015 academic year with 170 primary school teachers…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Primary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Foreign Countries
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Çaliskan, Ilke – Educational Research and Reviews, 2014
The purpose of this study was to identify the perceptions of pre-service science teachers about using vee diagrams and preparing electronic portfolios in physics laboratuary course. 103 first grade pre-service science teachers who took general physics laboratuary course were the participants of the study. Pre-service teachers constructed vee…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Visual Aids
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Hu, Xiangen, Ed.; Barnes, Tiffany, Ed.; Hershkovitz, Arnon, Ed.; Paquette, Luc, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2017
The 10th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2017) is held under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society at the Optics Velley Kingdom Plaza Hotel, Wuhan, Hubei Province, in China. This years conference features two invited talks by: Dr. Jie Tang, Associate Professor with the Department of Computer…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Graphs, Data Use