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Hammack, Rebekah; Vo, Tina – Research in Science Education, 2022
This sequential explanatory mixed methods study (quant + QUAL) examined elementary preservice teachers' conceptions of teaching engineering. Participants (n = 104) from two large western universities completed the Draw-An-Engineering-Teacher-Test (DAETT) as part of their elementary science methods course. Additionally, a subgroup of participants…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Engineering Education, Student Attitudes
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Shaw, Edward L., Jr. – School Science and Mathematics, 1992
Reports a study of 12 preservice elementary and 12 preservice secondary science teachers to determine the effects of methods instruction on their beliefs about the teaching/learning process. Results indicate that secondary teachers may have more complex belief structures than elementary teachers and that slight structural changes occurred for both…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitude Measures, Beliefs, Cognitive Structures
Peck, Donald M.; Connell, Michael L. – 1991
Elementary school teacher candidates typically enter their professional training with deficiencies in their conceptual understanding of the topics of elementary school mathematics and with a reliance upon procedural (algorithmic) approaches to the solutions of mathematical problems. If elementary school teacher candidates are expected to teach…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, College Mathematics