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Savas Varlik – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2024
This study examines the role of epistemological beliefs in moderating the relationship between critical and creative thinking among science teachers. It aims to explore how advancements in understanding knowledge influence these cognitive skills. The primary focus is on the extent to which epistemological beliefs impact critical and creative…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Critical Thinking, Creative Thinking
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Becerra, Beatriz; Núñez, Paola; Vergara, Claudia; Santibáñez, David; Krüger, Dirk; Cofré, Hernán – Research in Science Education, 2023
Despite the importance of evolution to understand biology, there is significant evidence that many biology teachers have difficulties to successfully teach this topic. The purpose of this study is to describe procedures by which a paper-and-pencil instrument to assess teachers' pedagogical content knowledge for evolution (PCK[subscript evo]) was…
Descriptors: Evolution, Science Instruction, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Construct Validity
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Lotta Jons; John Airey – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2024
This study reports findings from an interview study with eleven teacher educators from a physics teacher training program in Finland. They represented the four training environments that students encounter during their education, i.e. the Department of Physics, the Department of Mathematics and Science Education, the Department of General…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Education
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Shruthi Venkatesh Reddy; Anna-Leena Kähkönen; Josephine Moate – Journal of Teacher Education and Educators, 2024
Teachers are increasingly expected to incorporate Project-based learning (PBL) pedagogy to teach science. While teachers' definitions and challenges in the use of PBL are widely studied, very few studies focus on the development of a teacher's knowledge of the use of PBL over multiple projects. The current research is an in-depth case study aimed…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Concept Mapping, Critical Incidents Method
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Due, Karin; Skoog, Marianne; Areljung, Sofie; Ottander, Christina; Sundberg, Bodil – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2023
This study aims to contribute knowledge about obstacles and opportunities for pedagogical continuity in science across early childhood education. We use activity theory to analyse individual interviews and group meetings with teachers from preschool (age 1-5), preschool class (age 6) and grade 1-3 (age 7-9) in three Swedish school units. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Jens Steinwachs; Helge Martens – Science Education, 2025
Addressing student conceptions is crucial in science education. Therefore, teachers should be able to notice and interpret situations, in which student conceptions are part of the complex classroom interactions. This study analyzes the skills known as professional vision using an interpretivist research paradigm and a sociocultural perspective.…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teaching Experience, Science Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
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Corinna Mönch; Silvija Markic – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2024
Chemish - the scientific language of chemistry - is crucial for learning chemistry. To help students acquire the competencies to understand and use Chemish, chemistry teachers need to have a sound knowledge of teaching and learning Chemish: Pedagogical Scientific Language Knowledge (PSLK). But still, despite the importance of this knowledge, the…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Science Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Min, Mina; Whitehead, Ashley; Wells, Cacey; Akerson, Valarie – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2023
With an increasing number of English Language Learners (ELLs), the landscape of public schools in the United States has been rapidly changing. However, ELLs' academic performance is consistently lower than their native English-speaking peers' and many in-service teachers feel ill-prepared to teach ELLs in a culturally and linguistically responsive…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Student Attitudes, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
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Dong, Yan; Wang, Jing; Yang, Yunying; Kurup, Premnadh M. – International Journal of STEM Education, 2020
Background: China has great student participation in STEM education. Chinese society has a progressive and positive attitude towards STEM as it is considered to provide more opportunities in life. Teachers play a vital role in the success of any STEM program in K-12 schools. However, teachers are facing instructional challenges because of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, STEM Education, Teacher Role, Elementary Secondary Education
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Mazibe, Ernest N.; Coetzee, Corene; Gaigher, Estelle – Research in Science Education, 2020
This paper reports a case study of four grade 10 physical sciences teachers' PCK about graphs of motion. We used three data collection strategies, namely teachers' written accounts, captured by the content representation (CoRe) tool, interviews and classroom observations. We conceptualised the PCK displayed in the CoRe tool and the interviews as…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Grade 10, Science Teachers
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Marco-Bujosa, Lisa M.; Friedman, Audrey A.; Kramer, Allison – School Science and Mathematics, 2021
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore how science teachers who persisted in urban schools interpreted and responded to the unique features of urban educational contexts. With 17 alumni who taught in metropolitan areas across seven states, the Science Educators for Urban Schools (SEUS) program provided a research setting that…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Urban Schools, Phenomenology
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Jalal, Shumaila; Nawab, Ali – Cogent Education, 2022
This research aimed to explore the possibility of using Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approach for the development of students' Second Language (L2) skills and content in the subject of Chemistry. To achieve this purpose, action research method was used to implement CLIL approach at grade 7 consisting of 30 students. The research…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Barriers, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Native Language
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Chakour, Radouan; Alami, Anouar; Selmaoui, Sabah; Eddif, Aâtika; Zaki, Moncef; Boughanmi, Youssef – Education Sciences, 2019
The teaching of Earth Sciences (ES) is particularly delicate and seems to be problematic for both learners and Moroccan teachers for multiple reasons. Based on this observation, this study aims at identifying the difficulties related to the teaching of ES by exploring the points of view of the Moroccan teachers toward this field. As an…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Science Instruction, Secondary School Teachers, Barriers
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Büssing, Alexander Georg; Menzel, Susanne; Schnieders, Maxime; Beckmann, Valerie; Basten, Melanie – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2019
As several countries have committed themselves to the promotion of inclusive school systems, teachers might feel overwhelmed by the additional competencies needed for inclusive teaching. Beyond an increase in specialised knowledge, these competencies include a coherent belief system to facilitate the adoption of inclusive practices. Currently,…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Preservice Teachers, Inclusion, Teacher Competencies
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Izci, Kemal; Siegel, Marcelle A. – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2019
Assessing student learning to adapt instruction to support learning is an important skill all teachers need to develop. However, it is not an easy task for teachers and even more difficult for new teachers. The current study aims to explore an alternatively certified new chemistry teacher?s understanding and practices of classroom assessment to…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, Science Teachers, Chemistry, Student Evaluation
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