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Download full textSiegel, Marcelle A.; Lee, Julia A. C. – 2001
While increasing teachers' scientific knowledge base has been identified as a challenge for teacher education (e.g., NCES, 1996), the skills used to identify a need for knowledge and the skills necessary to search for that knowledge have been less discussed. Yet, the ability to learn for oneself is really the goal of lifelong teacher education. In…
Descriptors: Electricity, Higher Education, Physics, Preservice Teacher Education
Polanco, Rodrigo; Calderon, Patricia; Delgado, Franciso – 2001
A 3-year follow-up evaluation was conducted of an experimental problem-based learning (PBL) integrated curriculum directed to students of the first 2 years of engineering. The PBL curriculum brought together the contents of physics, mathematics, and computer science courses in a single course in which students worked on real-life problems. In…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Engineering, Foreign Countries
Settelmaier, Elisabeth – 2003
Traditionally, many science educators have taught science without addressing ethical questions. However, the inclusion of moral discourse in science teaching may help educators to bring to the fore problematic issues in relation to science, and it may offer an opportunity for students to practice their future engagement in the public discourse…
Descriptors: Biology, Foreign Countries, Instructional Materials, Learning Strategies
