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Kartal, Tezcan; Dilek, Irem – International Journal on Social and Education Sciences, 2021
Science teaching efficacy belief (STEB) is of paramount importance as it motivates teachers to teach science or hinders them from teaching science. Preservice teachers' efficacy beliefs may change during their method courses. Knowing how pre-service teachers' beliefs change over time can significantly contribute to teacher educators to improve…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Science Teachers
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Djamàa, Sara – Computers in the Schools, 2020
Data from an EFL (English as a foreign language) graduate research methods course (N = 384) was used to assess the effect of flipped instruction on students' exam performance over one academic year. Participants, who were enrolled in two different universities in Algeria, were randomly assigned to a flipped course (n = 192) and a conventional…
Descriptors: Homework, Methods Courses, Graduate Students, Blended Learning
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Whillans, Ashley V.; Hope, Sally E.; Wylie, Lauren J.; Zhao, Bob; Souza, Michael J. – Teaching of Psychology, 2018
Promoting undergraduate engagement is an important and challenging obstacle at large research-focused universities. Thus, the current study evaluated whether a peer-led program of student-geared events could improve engagement among a diverse group of psychology students early on in their degrees. We randomly assigned interested second-year…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Learner Engagement, Research Universities, Psychology
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McConnell, William; Kaal, Hendrien L.; Marton, John P. – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2013
Although students in the social sciences perceive quantitative methods courses negatively, this need not mean that they devalue empirical research, or lack capacity to become informed consumers of research. To explore this possibility, we administered two measures to Canadian students (n = 194) enrolled in first-year social science courses, and to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Sciences, Investigations, Statistical Analysis
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Hussein, Hussein El-ghamry Mohammad – English Language Teaching, 2016
This study investigated the effect of Blackboard-based instruction on pre-service teachers' achievement in the teaching methods course at The Faculty of Education for Girls, in Bisha, KSA. Forty seventh-level English Department students were randomly assigned into either the experimental group (N = 20) or the control group (N = 20). While studying…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Integrated Learning Systems, Web Based Instruction, Preservice Teachers
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Kinay, Ismail; Bagçeci, Birsen – International Education Studies, 2016
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of authentic assessment, an approach used in Scientific Research Methods, on problem solving skills of prospective classroom teachers. The participant groups of the study consisted of sophomore prospective teachers who study at Dicle University in the Ziya Gökalp Education Faculty Classroom…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Performance Based Assessment, Preservice Teachers, Problem Solving
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Ogan-Bekiroglu, Feral; Belek, Deniz Eren – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2014
The purpose of this study was to examine effects of model-based teaching on students' argumentation skills. Experimental design guided to the research. The participants of the study were pre-service physics teachers. The argumentative intervention lasted seven weeks. Data for this research were collected via video recordings and written arguments.…
Descriptors: Teaching Models, Instructional Effectiveness, Persuasive Discourse, Preservice Teacher Education
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Kocyigit, Sinan; Zembat, Rengin – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2013
This study aimed to investigate the effects of authentic tasks on preschool preservice teachers' attitudes towards the course and problem solving skills. The study was designed in accordance with the pretest-posttest control group model. The data were collected by using the "Problem Solving Skills Inventory", the "Course Attitude…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Problem Solving, Methods Courses
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Ebrahim, Ali H. – Education, 2012
This study examined educational factors that positively influenced the confidence of students training to be elementary science educators (self efficacy). Specifically, it compared the impacts of a science method course and a practicum teaching course on Kuwait University students. Using a pre/post design, The Science Teaching Efficacy Belief…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Elementary School Teachers, Foreign Countries, Practicums
Chang, Sau Hou – Online Submission, 2009
The purpose of this article is to compare and contrast the elementary education programs at University of Macau and Indiana University Southeast. A comparison of the program structures looked at the program standards, credit hours, degree offered, completion requirements, and academic departments offering the courses. A comparison of the program…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Elementary Education, Comparative Analysis, Teacher Education Curriculum
Ogan-Bekiroglu, Feral – Online Submission, 2006
One of the purposes of this study was to examine the differences between knowledge of pre-service physics teachers who experienced model-based teaching in pre-service education and those who did not. Moreover, it was aimed to determine pre-service physics teachers' perceptions of modelling. Posttest-only control group experimental design was used…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Physics, Methods Courses, Preservice Teacher Education
Farrell, Thomas S. C., Ed. – TESOL International Association, 2006
The Language Teacher Research Series aims to connect research and practice by highlighting the insights that teachers themselves describe after examining their own practices. This first volume of the five-volume series presents research conducted by language teachers at all levels, from high school English teachers to English language teacher…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Researchers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning