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Highly Recommended and Poorly Used: English and Spanish Science Teachers' Views of Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL) and Its Enactment
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Romero-Ariza, Marta; Quesada, Antonio; Abril, Ana Maria; Sorensen, Peter; Oliver, Mary Colette – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2020
Inquiry pedagogies provide opportunities to meet learning outcomes linked to developing scientific literacy. Within a European project intended at promoting Inquiry Based Learning (IBL), this paper presents quantitative and qualitative data about teachers' views of IBL and its enactment in England and Spain. Results show that teachers in both…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Active Learning, Inquiry
Science Teaching Reform through Professional Development: Teachers' Use of a Scientific Classroom Discourse Community Model
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Lewis, Elizabeth B.; Baker, Dale R.; Helding, Brandon A. – Science Education, 2015
This report outlines a 2-year investigation into how secondary science teachers used professional development (PD) to build scientific classroom discourse communities (SCDCs). Observation data, teacher, student, and school demographic information were used to build a hierarchical linear model. The length of time that teachers received PD was the…
Descriptors: Secondary School Science, Secondary School Teachers, Science Teachers, Professional Development