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Direct linkManassero-Mas, María-Antonia; Vázquez-Alonso, Ángel – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2021
Nature of science (NOS) is a key component of scientific literacy, so science teacher education on NOS is critical to ensure students' scientific literacy. According to mainstream NOS literature, explicit and reflective interventions are recommended to effectively teach NOS. This paper presents an experience for the initial education of secondary…
Descriptors: Science Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Graduate Students, Young Adults
Mim, Shamnaz Arifin; Rahman, S. M. Hafizur; Jahanara, Quazi Afroz – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2017
Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) refers to certain knowledge of teacher in a particular topic, considered as an act of teaching to deal with students in a particular way. Since PCK allows a science teacher to provide quality teaching, this qualitative multiple case study aims to explore the nature of science teachers' PCK on the topic…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Science Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Genetics
Buaraphan, Khajornsak; Abedin Forhad, Ziaul – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2014
Understanding of nature of science (NOS) serves as one of the desirable characteristics of science teachers. The current study explored 55 Thai and 110 Bangladeshi in-service secondary science teachers' conceptions of NOS regarding scientific knowledge, scientific method, scientists' work, and scientific enterprise, by using the Myths of Science…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis
Halai, Nelofer; Khan, Manzoor Ali – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2011
The aim of this study is to analyze the action research undertaken by Khan as a teacher researcher in a private school as part of the degree requirement of his M.Ed. program in Teacher Education at the Aga Khan University, Institute for Educational Development. The purpose of this analysis undertaken by the first author and supervisor of the study…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Private Schools, Action Research, Foreign Countries
Toh, Tin-Lam – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2006
It has been five years since the chapter on relative velocity was first introduced into the Singapore Additional Mathematics curriculum. This paper reports some general findings on the teaching of relative velocity in mathematics classrooms and the pupils' learning difficulties on relative velocity. Some implications to the teaching of this topic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Motion, Learning Problems, Mathematics Instruction
Toh, Tin-Lam – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2005
This paper reports a preliminary study on in-service Additional mathematics teachers' knowledge of kinematics concepts. A survey consisting of TRUE/FALSE questions was issued to the participating teachers. The questions were collations of the common misconceptions identified by some local Physics teachers among the local Physics students. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Mechanics (Physics)
