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Fulden Güler Nalbantoglu; Jale Çakiroglu; Özgül Yilmaz Tüzün – Online Submission, 2023
The study aimed to explore the integration of lesson study into science teacher education programs to enhance preservice science teachers' pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) for STEM. The lesson study cycle encompassed planning, teaching, reflecting, re-teaching, and re-reflecting phases, and the participants' experiences regarding PCK for STEM…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Teacher Education Programs
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Gencer, Sinem; Akkus, Huseyin – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2022
The purpose of this study is to examine pre-service chemistry teachers' orientations towards chemistry teaching during chemistry teaching method courses. This study was conducted with ten pre-service chemistry teachers for 28 weeks. The Draw-A-Science-Teacher-Test Checklist (DASTT-C), card-sorting activity, interviews, observations, and reflection…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Chemistry, Student Attitudes
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Saritas, Davut; Yenen, Emin Tamer – Open Journal for Educational Research, 2020
In this study, it was aimed to determine the harmony and integration levels of the material prepared by the science teacher candidates with the methodical approach they adopted. In this case study, the data was obtained from observations of material practices and documents introducing the materials. In the study of 41 teaching materials prepared…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Science Education
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Uçak, Esra; Saka, Ceren – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2022
The purpose of the current study is to investigate the effect of using Web 2.0 tools in the teaching of socioscientific issues on pre-service science teachers. A total of 24 senior pre-service science teachers attending a state university in the spring term of the 2021-2022 academic year participated in the study. The study was conducted with the…
Descriptors: Web 2.0 Technologies, Technology Uses in Education, Technology Integration, Science and Society
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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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Atasoy, Volkan; Cakiroglu, Jale – Educational Studies, 2019
This study investigated how preservice teachers develop collective efficacy when preparing lesson plans for a science methods course, and how this collective efficacy changed over time. The data were collected from four preservice science teachers working in a group to fulfil the requirements of the course. Findings revealed that four factors,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Self Efficacy
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Buldur, Serkan – International Journal of Science Education, 2017
The aim of this longitudinal study was to investigate the changes in preservice science teachers' beliefs about science teaching during a science teacher training programme. The study was designed as a panel study, and the data were collected from the same participants at the end of each academic year during a four-year period. The participants…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Science Instruction
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Murat Bursal – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2015
Thirty-nine American and 78 Turkish preservice elementary teachers' personal science teaching efficacy (PSTE) beliefs were investigated during science methods courses with standard and retrospective pre-post testing methods. Significant differences in the PSTE gain scores, which indicate the changes in the mean PSTE scores from…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Self Efficacy, Methods Courses
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Karakas, Mehmet – Science Activities: Classroom Projects and Curriculum Ideas, 2012
This article provides an example of an innovative science activity applied in a science methods course for future elementary teachers at a small university in northeastern Turkey. The aim of the activity is to help prospective elementary teachers understand the density concept in a simple way and see an innovative teaching example. The instructor…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Science Activities, Drama, Role Playing
Çaliskan, Ilke – Online Submission, 2014
The aim of this study was to identify the needs of third grade classroom teaching students about science teaching course in terms of Parlett's Illuminative program evaluation model. Phenomographic research design was used in this study. Illuminative program evaluation model was chosen for this study in terms of its eclectic and process-based…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Elementary School Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Science Instruction
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Demirdögen, Betül; Uzuntiryaki-Kondakçi, Esen – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2016
The purpose of this case study was to investigate how pre-service chemistry teachers' science teaching orientations change during a two-semester intervention designed to enhance their pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) for teaching the nature of science (NOS). Moreover, the way that pre-service chemistry teachers translated their change in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Theory Practice Relationship, Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes
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Bulunuz, Mizrap – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2012
This research studied the development of preservice teachers' understandings and attitudes about teaching science through playful experiences. Subjects were 94 senior preservice teachers in two sections of a science methods class on teaching preschool children. Data sources were semi-structured interviews and open-ended questionnaire at the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Play, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children