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Plummer, Julia D.; Tanis Ozcelik, Arzu – Science Education, 2015
For students to attain deep understanding of scientific practices, they will need to have opportunities to participate in sustained engagement in doing science. Such opportunities begin with elementary teachers implementing coherent and well-sequenced inquiry-based investigations in their classrooms. This study explored how preservice teachers (N…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Methods Courses, Elementary School Science, Astronomy
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Abell, Sandra K.; Bryan, Lynn A.; Anderson, Maria A. – Science Education, 1998
Investigates preservice elementary teachers' theories about science teaching and learning through their reflections on integrated media case-based instruction. Constructs a profile of the teachers' images of themselves as future science teachers. Contains 43 references. (DDR)
Descriptors: Case Method (Teaching Technique), Elementary Education, Higher Education, Learning Theories
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Abd-El-Khalick, Fouad; Akerson, Valarie L. – Science Education, 2004
This study assessed, and identified factors in participants' learning ecologies that mediated, the effectiveness of an explicit reflective instructional approach that satisfied conditions for learning as conceptual change on preservice elementary teachers' views of nature of science (NOS). Participants were 28 undergraduate students enrolled in an…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Reflective Teaching, Instructional Effectiveness, Preservice Teachers