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Direct linkLederman, Judith; Lederman, Norman; Bartels, Selina; Jimenez, Juan; Akubo, Mark; Aly, Shereen; Bao, Chengcheng; Blanquet, Estelle; Blonder, Ron; Bologna Soares de Andrade, Mariana; Buntting, Catherine; Cakir, Mustafa; EL-Deghaidy, Heba; ElZorkani, Ahmed; Gaigher, Estelle; Guo, Shuchen; Hakanen, Arvi; Hamed Al-Lal, Soraya; Han-Tosunoglu, Cigdem; Hattingh, Annemarie; Hume, Anne; Irez, Serhat; Kay, Gillian; Kivilcan Dogan, Ozgur; Kremer, Kerstin; Kuo, Pi-Chu; Lavonen, Jari; Lin, Shu-Fen; Liu, Cheng; Liu, Enshan; Liu, Shiang-Yao; Lv, Bin; Mamlok-Naaman, Rachel; McDonald, Christine; Neumann, Irene; Pan, Yaozhen; Picholle, Eric; Rivero García, Ana; Rundgren, Carl-Johan; Santibáñez-Gómez, David; Saunders, Kathy; Schwartz, Renee; Voitle, Frauke; von Gyllenpalm, Jakob; Wei, Fangbing; Wishart, Jocelyn; Wu, Zhifeng; Xiao, Huang; Yalaki, Yalcin; Zhou, Qiaoxue – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2019
Although understandings of scientific inquiry (as opposed to conducting inquiry) are included in science education reform documents around the world, little is known about what students have learned about inquiry during their elementary school years. This is partially due to the lack of any assessment instrument to measure understandings about…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Middle School Students, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Download full textWilberforce, Cheryl; Pratt, Andrea – Teacher Education Advancement Network Journal, 2019
As a teacher educator, feedback from students is important to ensure there is time for my own reflection to inform and develop my practice and curriculum design within formal expectations of initial teacher education. This paper considers the perceptions and expectations of a sample of student teachers, situated in a Higher Education Institution…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Knowledge Level, Teacher Competencies, Preservice Teachers
Subramaniam, Karthigeyan; Esprívalo Harrell, Pamela – Educational Research, 2015
Background: Literature contends that a teacher's knowledge of concept map-based tasks influence how their students perceive the task and execute the creation of acceptable concept maps. Teachers who are skilled concept mappers are able to (1) understand and apply the operational terms to construct a hierarchical/non-hierarchical concept map; (2)…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Concept Mapping, Knowledge Level, Elementary Education
Catalano, Amy; Asselta, Lauren; Durkin, Alana – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2019
Elementary school teachers are commonly known to have low self-efficacy in mathematics and science. Previously conducted research on science teaching self-efficacy and content knowledge has often focused on whether methods courses, professional development or other interventions improve both self-efficacy and content knowledge among elementary…
Descriptors: Correlation, Knowledge Level, Science Instruction, Self Efficacy
Gresnigt, Rens; Taconis, Ruurd; van Keulen, Hanno; Gravemeijer, Koeno; Baartman, Liesbeth – Studies in Science Education, 2014
Integrated curricula seem promising for the increase of attention on science and technology in primary education. A clear picture of the advantages and disadvantages of integration efforts could help curriculum innovation. This review has focused on integrated curricula in primary education from 1994 to 2011. The integrated curricula were…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Technology Education, Elementary Education, Integrated Curriculum
Swanson, James E. – 1977
This study investigates the effects of adapting elementary science instruction to students' entering achievement levels on three dependent variables: (1) performance on tests of science content knowledge; (2) mastery of lesson objectives; and (3) attitude toward science. Subjects were 235 sixth graders from four elementary schools in a small,…
Descriptors: Achievement, Attitudes, Cognitive Measurement, Educational Research
Peer reviewedPines, A. Leon; Novak, Joseph D. – Science Education, 1985
Propositions expressed by students during interviews prior to and after audiovisual instruction served as the basis for Concept Propositional Analysis (CPA) to assess cognitive structure. CPAs for two students are reported and aspects of Ausubelian principles are discussed. The method showed that new learning can be linked to previous…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science
Hampton, Belinda; And Others – 1995
This paper describes the development of a diagnostic test to assess teachers' understanding of the learning cycle and highlights common misconceptions identified through the administration of the diagnostic instrument. The Learning Cycle Test was administered to 28 undergraduate students enrolled in elementary science methods who had received…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Higher Education
Peer reviewedRowe, Mary Budd, Ed. – Science and Children, 1984
Describes research on the effectiveness of "3-2-1 CONTACT," a Public Broadcasting System children's television science series. In the study, 15 of the shows designed for the series' second season were pilot-tested with fourth and fifth graders (N=192) by examining changes in student knowledge using pre- and post-tests. Conclusions are…
Descriptors: Childrens Television, Educational Television, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science
Taiwo, Adediran A. – 1975
This study was designed to examine the amount of incidental physical science knowledge possessed by fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade students in elementary schools in Western State of Nigeria, and to determine what relationship exists between the amount of such knowledge and the pupils' performance on science-related Piagetian tasks. The pupils…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Conservation (Concept), Correlation, Doctoral Dissertations
Peer reviewedSmail, Barbara; Kelly, Alison – Research in Science and Technological Education, 1984
Results from three cognitive tests revealed few sex differences among 11-year-old students (N=2065). Neither question style (multiple-choice or structured) nor content (masculine or feminine) has any great effect on sex differences in performance. However, boys performed markedly better than girls on tests of spatial ability and mechanical…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Tests, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science
Harmon, David Jerome – 1977
This study was designed to determine the relationships of student anxiety and dependency to the effects of teaching structure on the acquisition of science knowledge and processes within inductive/discovery learning. Teaching structure refers to the relative amounts of teacher and/or student control within the tasks. Randomly assigned fifth- and…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Discovery Learning, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research
Peer reviewedMorehouse, Richard E.; And Others – Journal of Staff Development, 1991
Describes a five-week summer program for elementary teachers designed to develop content knowledge in physics through immersion in the subject and cooperative learning. Teachers indicated they changed their science teaching orientation toward process and content and increased their awareness of the power of demonstrations and student-generated…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Inservice Teacher Education
Savesky, Kathy – Humane Education, 1984
Provided are synopses of selected presentations and discussions that evaluated and provided an understanding of the role of empathy in human behavior toward animals. Factors hampering such empathy, origin of empathy and altruism, and childrens' attitudes toward and knowledge of animals were among the areas explored. (BC)
Descriptors: Altruism, Animals, Attitude Change, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedStrickland, A. W.; Staver, John R. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1979
Compares responses of preservice and current elementary teachers in Indiana on the Ecological Attitudes and Knowledge Test. Results indicate that preservice teachers possess more positive attitudes and higher knowledge scores than current elementary teachers. Confirms geographical nonspecificity of the test by comparing results with an earlier,…
Descriptors: Ecology, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science
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