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Peer reviewedGess-Newsome, Julie; Lederman, Norman G. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1995
Investigated the nature of biology teachers' global content understandings, and sources and formation of subject matter structures (SMSs). Reports that the initial formation of SMSs was credited to college content courses and modified by the act of teaching. Variables that differentially affected SMS translation included teacher intentions,…
Descriptors: Biology, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Structures, Course Content
Download full textGess-Newsome, Julie; Lederman, Norman G. – 1991
Current reform efforts in the teaching of high school biology demonstrate the need for a synthetic treatment of prominent concepts. There exists insufficient research that delineates the global content understandings--in this paper designated subject matter structures (SMS)--of biology teachers; or that assesses whether these SMS do, in fact,…
Descriptors: Biology, Case Studies, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Techniques
