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Granström, Mikk; Härma, Eliis; Kikas, Eve – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2023
The aim of this study was to explore how pre- and in-service teachers (N = 346) evaluate different learning strategies for six scenarios, and how they justify their answers. Results showed that teachers mostly evaluate strategies found to be effective in previous empirical studies as more effective and they can provide proper scientific…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Learning Strategies, Preservice Teachers, Vignettes
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Henna Vilppu; Ville Mankki; Marko Lähteenmäki; Mirjamaija Mikkilä-Erdmann; Anu Warinowski – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2024
This study aimed to explore the admitted students of Finnish primary teacher education programmes from the viewpoint of learning strategies, and academic success. An overall view was derived from national register data, which were supplemented with questionnaire data gathered from three teacher education units (N = 216). Primary teacher programmes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Misconceptions, High Achievement, Preservice Teacher Education
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Yerdelen, Sündüs; Sungur, Semra – Science Education International, 2020
This study aimed to determine the extent of pre-service science teachers' (PTS) process and materialistic understanding of sound concept and the role of their task value beliefs in their scientific conception of sound. With this aim, the Sound Concept Inventory Instrument (SCII) was translated and adapted to Turkish. The SCII was administered to…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation
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Dewi, Safira Permata; Zen, Djunaidah; Haryani, Maefa Eka – Journal of Biological Education Indonesia (Jurnal Pendidikan Biologi Indonesia), 2019
The proper learning strategy, mainly in cellular respiration topic, can be determined as mapping teacher candidate's prior knowledge was done. This study aimed to get the profile of prior knowledge of teacher candidates in cellular respiration topic. This survey research used four-tier diagnostic test as data collection instrument. The number of…
Descriptors: Cytology, Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
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Taslidere, Erdal – Participatory Educational Research, 2021
The purpose of this study was to investigate both the individual and relative effectiveness of two conceptual change interventions, gender and their interactions on preservice science teachers' conceptual understanding and their misconceptions in mechanical waves. The interventions are conceptual change texts enriched with concept cartoons (CCTCC)…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Worksheets, Instructional Materials, Instructional Effectiveness
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Ohst, Andrea; Glogger, Inga; Nückles, Matthias; Renkl, Alexander – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2015
Psychological research on learning has brought forth many insights that are relevant for teachers (for example, knowledge about learning strategies). However, teachers sometimes have intuitive fragmentary knowledge that is partly incorrect. Such knowledge hinders the acquisition of psychological knowledge. Tried-and-tested interventions dealing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Knowledge Level, Prior Learning
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Livy, Sharyn; Vale, Colleen – Mathematics Teacher Education and Development, 2011
In this article, pre-service teachers' mathematics content knowledge is explored through the analysis of two items about ratio from a Mathematical Competency, Skills and Knowledge Test. Pre-service teachers' thinking strategies, common errors and misconceptions in their responses are presented and discussed. Of particular interest was the range…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Misconceptions, Preservice Teachers, Tests
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Taylor, Neil; Lucas, Keith B.; Watters, James J. – Research in Science Education, 1999
Finds that collaborative group work among pre-service elementary teachers stimulated increased levels of discussion and fostered deeper conceptual understanding than did traditional instructional methods. Discusses implications for science education in Fiji and similar places. (Contains 37 references.) (Author/WRM)
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Cultural Background, Elementary Education, Ethnicity
Pateman, Neil A., Ed; Dougherty, Barbara J., Ed.; Zilliox, Joseph T., Ed. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
This volume of the 27th International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education Conference includes the following research reports: (1) Improving Decimal Number Conception by Transfer from Fractions to Decimals (Irita Peled and Juhaina Awawdy Shahbari); (2) The Development of Student Teachers' Efficacy Beliefs in Mathematics during…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Mathematics Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Metalinguistics