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R. Tanner Oertli – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Socioscientific issues (SSI) such as COVID-19 and climate change often highlight the inequalities that structural racism creates. If we ever wish to equitably solve these issues, we require a population that has the scientific literacy and the sociopolitical consciousness to do so. Yet, the push for culturally relevant education has had little…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Social Problems, Political Issues, Knowledge Level
Bitner, Betty L. – 1992
The purpose of this causal-comparative study was to compare reasoning level, American College Test (ACT) science, process skills, and physical science misconceptions of preservice elementary and secondary science teachers and to investigate gender differences. The stratified randomly drawn sample (n=68) consisted of preservice elementary and…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Logical Thinking