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Park, Mihwa; Flores, Raymond – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
The purpose of this study was to develop a questionnaire to measure elementary preservice teachers' emotions about teaching science and mathematics. To achieve this goal, a questionnaire, Teacher Emotion for teaching Science and Mathematics (TESaM), was designed and pilot and field tested with a sample of preservice elementary teachers in the…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Affective Measures, Test Construction, Test Validity
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Lambert, Julie L.; Bleicher, Robert E. – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2017
Findings of this study suggest that scientific argumentation can play an effective role in addressing complex socioscientific issues (i.e. global climate change). This research examined changes in preservice teachers' knowledge and perceptions about climate change in an innovative undergraduate-level elementary science methods course. The…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Climate, Persuasive Discourse, Science Education
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Basturk, Savas – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2016
The courses "school experience" and "teaching practice" are undoubtedly among the central courses to be received by pre-service teachers who will be future teachers. Through them, pre-service teachers obtain the realistic information about their profession. Therefore, the aim of this study was to examine pre-service teachers'…
Descriptors: Elementary School Curriculum, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes
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Hughes, Bob; Arbogast, Janet; Kafer, Lindsey; Chen, Julianna – Adult Learning, 2014
Teaching graduate students to conduct evaluations is typically relegated to evaluation methods courses. This approach misses an opportunity for students to collaboratively use evaluation skills to explore content. This article examines a graduate course, Issues in Adult Basic Education, in which students learned evaluation methods concurrently…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Graduate Students, Evaluation Methods, Methods Courses
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Zeybek, Zulfiye – International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, 2016
This study aimed to document pre-service elementary teachers' (PSTs'), who are going to teach K-5, ability to construct as well as evaluate justifications varied in terms of levels of sophistication. Additionally, this study aimed to investigate how PSTs' knowledge of content in which they were being asked to prove influenced their ability to…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Skills, Mathematical Logic
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Lee, Carole K.; Shea, Marilyn – Science Education International, 2016
This study examines how pre-service elementary teachers (PSETs) view inquiry-based science learning and teaching, and how the science methods course builds their confidence to teach inquiry science. Most PSETs think that inquiry is asking students questions rather than a formal set of pedagogical tools. In the present study, three groups of PSETs…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Inquiry, Science Instruction
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Zhang, Li; Beach, Richard; Sheng, Yue – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2016
As computers and the Internet are increasingly employed in language teaching and learning, preparing teachers for the impending reality of online teaching is of paramount importance. This study investigated 10 in-service teachers participating in an online role-play as part of a digital education methods course to acquire an understanding of the…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Case Studies, Persuasive Discourse, Mixed Methods Research
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Jaipal-Jamani, Kamini; Angeli, Charoula – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2017
The current impetus for increasing STEM in K-12 education calls for an examination of how preservice teachers are being prepared to teach STEM. This paper reports on a study that examined elementary preservice teachers' (n = 21) self-efficacy, understanding of science concepts, and computational thinking as they engaged with robotics in a science…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Elementary School Teachers
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Bilican, Kader; Ozdem-Yilmaz, Yasemin; Oztekin, Ceren – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2014
The present article aimed at understanding those unvoiced biases pre-service teachers may have that conflicts with their integration of nature of science in their science lessons. Three senior pre-service science teachers' views on NOS with regard to their decision making on critical incidents and their reflections about how they…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Parsons, Seth A.; Malloy, Jacquelynn A.; Vaughn, Margaret; La Croix, Leslie – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2014
The current high-stakes educational context compels many schools and school systems to encourage teachers to use restrictive literacy teaching practices, which are unlikely to meet students' diverse needs. These restrictions typically fall on novice teachers, who enter the field through various preparation routes, because they often work in…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Literacy, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
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Buchanan, Lisa Brown – Social Studies, 2015
This article describes how elementary preservice teachers used four documentary films to think historically about the United States Civil Rights Movement. The author situates the descriptive case study within research about historical thinking and documentary film, identifying the need for using documentary film to think historically in the…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, United States History, History Instruction, Social Studies
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Nganga, Lydiah – Journal of International Social Studies, 2016
The teaching force in the United States of America is still predominantly white and monolingual. Yet, the U.S. population is rapidly becoming culturally and ethnically diverse. As a result, white teachers have expressed doubt in their efficacy in teaching students whose cultures are different than theirs (Helfrich & Bean, 2011). The purpose of…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Preservice Teachers, Teaching Methods, Childrens Literature
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Bang, EunJin – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2013
This study explores the impact of a semester-long science methods course examining pre-service elementary teachers' views on the nature of science (NOS). Also examined were NOS characteristics that pre-service teachers incorporated into their science lesson plans and peer teachings, during the course. Data used for this study were obtained from 21…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Scientific Principles, Interviews
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Moru, Eunice Kolitsoe; Qhobela, Makomosela; Maqutu, Tholang Z. – Teacher Development, 2014
The quality of mathematics teaching in Lesotho primary education remains one of the vexing problems in the education system. The study investigated how teachers viewed the impact of instruction on enhancing their knowledge of teaching. Data for the study were elicited from the second-year students enrolled for a Bachelor of Education in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Teachers
Çaliskan, Ilke – Online Submission, 2014
The aim of this study was to identify the needs of third grade classroom teaching students about science teaching course in terms of Parlett's Illuminative program evaluation model. Phenomographic research design was used in this study. Illuminative program evaluation model was chosen for this study in terms of its eclectic and process-based…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Elementary School Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Science Instruction
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