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Teresa Lynette Leavens – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this study was to explore four elementary preservice teachers' (PSTs) learning outcomes based on "affective characteristics," "science knowledge," and "pedagogical content knowledge" during a science methods course that incorporated "explicit instruction on drawing-to-reason" about…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Methods Courses
Weaver, Joanna P. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This study tested the hypothesis that exploratory learning, with and without analogous problems, would improve students' ability to make connections between conceptually-related topics. In this randomized experiment, undergraduates in introductory physics (N = 171) studied a new topic under three different instructional conditions. Order and type…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Science Instruction, College Science, Physics