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Keller, Melanie M.; Neumann, Knut; Fischer, Hans E. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2017
This paper examines students' achievement and interest and the extent to which they are predicted by teacher knowledge and motivation. Student achievement and interest are both considered desirable outcomes of school instruction. Teacher pedagogical content knowledge has been identified a major predictor of student achievement in previous…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Physics, Science Teachers, Science Instruction
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Nixon, Ryan S.; Luft, Julie A.; Ross, Richard J. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2017
Many new science teachers are assigned to teach subjects in which they have not been prepared, a practice referred to as out-of-field (OOF) teaching. Teaching OOF has been shown to negatively influence instruction and constrain teachers' development. In this study, we explored the extent to which new secondary science teachers were assigned OOF…
Descriptors: Incidence, Predictor Variables, Teaching Methods, Expertise
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Keselman, Alla – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2003
Early adolescents may lack the cognitive and metacognitive skills necessary for effective inquiry learning. In particular, they are likely to have a nonnormative mental model of multivariable causality in which effects of individual variables are neither additive nor consistent. Described here is a software-based intervention designed to…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Inferences, Metacognition, Cognitive Development