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Kareem, Adeyinka – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2022
The study assessed preservice biology teachers' higher-order thinking skills (HOTS), scientific attitudes, and creativity in the study area. The study also evaluated how the components of HOTS and scientific attitudes predict scientific creativity to determine which elements were strong predictors of scientific creativity. The study adopted a…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Scientific Attitudes, Predictor Variables, Creativity
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Demirbag, Mehmet; Bahcivan, Eralp – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2022
This study was conducted to investigate the relationships among Turkish preservice science teachers' argumentativeness, epistemological beliefs, and achievement goals, as well as the reasons for coherencies and incoherencies among these variables. A sequential explanatory research design was applied within the 2 following studies. In Study I, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Psychological Patterns, Persuasive Discourse
Rachmatullah, Arif – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation conducted a science classroom intervention using two instructional approaches, computational modeling and paper-based pictorial modeling, in the context of food webs. A series of research papers were written on the impact of the intervention on students' attitudes and learning, and on teachers via professional development and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Food, Intervention
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Glaze, Amanda L.; Goldston, M. Jenice; Dantzler, John – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2015
Evolution continues to be a controversial topic around the world but nowhere is this more apparent locally than in the Southeastern region of the USA. In this study, we explored acceptance and rejection of evolution among pre-service science teachers in a teaching college in the rural Southeast and sought to determine (1) what relationships exist…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Scientific Attitudes
Chen, Li-Hua – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Evolution is the cornerstone of biological sciences, but anti-evolution teaching has become a global controversy since the introduction of evolutionary ideas into the United States high school science curricula in 1914. It is suggested that teachers' attitude toward and acceptance of the theory of evolution will influence their effect of teaching…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, High Schools, Science Teachers
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Yenice, Nilgün – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2015
This study has been carried out to identify the relationship between the epistemological beliefs of student teachers and their metacognitive perceptions about the nature of science. The participants of the study totaled 336 student teachers enrolled in the elementary science education division of the department of elementary education at the…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Beliefs, Student Teachers, Science Instruction
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Bulunuz, Mizrap – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2015
Problem Statement: Research studies indicate that teachers with negative attitudes toward science tend to use didactic approaches rather than approaches based on students' active participation. However, the reviews of the national academic literature in Turkey located a few research studies on the relationship between playful science experiences…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Scientific Attitudes, Science Teachers, Play
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Nieswandt, Martina; Barrett, Sarah E.; McEneaney, Elizabeth H. – Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 2013
This quantitative study (n = 247) explores whether preservice science teachers express science-specific identities that reflect multiple areas of their beliefs (e.g., purpose for science teaching, inclusion of science-technology-society-environment issues into science teaching, and nature of science) as well as other individual characteristics…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disciplines, Individual Characteristics, Multivariate Analysis, Science Teachers
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Hodson, D. – School Science Review, 1986
Reexamines the traditional role of observation in science and science education. Proposes that since observation is based on some view of the world, it is not innocent and unbiased, but theory-dependent. Discusses possible implications for the science curriculum when reconsidering the role and status of observation in science. (TW)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning, Foreign Countries