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vanOostveen, Roland – College Quarterly, 2017
Initial plans for this project arose from a need to address issues of professional development of science and technology teachers that went beyond the norm available within school board settings. Two teams of 4 teachers responded to an invitation to participate in a collaborative action research project. Collaborative action research was chosen in…
Descriptors: Action Research, Faculty Development, Participatory Research, Science Teachers
Gustafson, Brenda; MacDonald, Dougal; d'Entremont, Yvette – Alberta Education, 2007
This report presents a literature review of elementary science and design technology education research. The review is intended to provide direction to the elementary science working groups charged with the responsibility to revise the "Alberta Elementary Science Program" (1996) by reflecting current ideas reported in research…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Science Programs, Scientific Principles, Problem Solving
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Bencze, Larry; Hodson, Derek – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1999
Describes how two teachers collaborated with a university-based researcher/teacher educator to design and implement more authentic science in a grade 7 classroom. Discusses the ways in which the teachers changed their views about science and science teaching, the anxieties they experienced, and the institutional constraints that impacted their…
Descriptors: Action Research, College School Cooperation, Educational Change, Foreign Countries