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Alternate Conceptions of Preservice Elementary Teachers: The Itakura Method
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Isabelle, Aaron D.; de Groot, Cornelis – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2008
In this study, we determined the effectiveness of the inquiry-based Itakura method for mediating alternate conceptions of preservice elementary teachers (N = 38) in an integrated mathematics, science, and technology methods course. We investigated alternate conceptions in the expansion of solids due to heating. There was a significant increase in…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Methods Courses, Teacher Education Curriculum, Misconceptions
Confronting Assumptions, Biases, and Stereotypes in Preservice Teachers' Conceptualizations of Science Teaching through the Use of Book Club
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Mensah, Felicia Moore – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2009
This study focuses on the structure and theoretical foundations of the book club for promoting multicultural understandings in science teacher education. The book club was defined as an informal, peer-directed group discussion that met regularly to discuss an ethnographic, multicultural text regarding issues pertinent to science teaching and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Science, Methods Courses
Examining the Effects of Electronic Mentoring Prompts on Learners' Scientific Reasoning Skills in a Text-Based Online Conference for a Science Education Course
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Angeli, Charoula; Valanides, Nicos – Science Education International, 2008
In a science education methods course, groups of students were initially involved in a face-to-face discussion and were sensitized about certain conflicting claims regarding a puzzling observation or set of observations. They were then instructed to resolve their conflicting ideas through electronic discussion. Students had two weeks time to…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Teacher Education Curriculum, Education Courses, Computer Mediated Communication
Numerical Methods through Open-Ended Projects
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Cline, Kelly S. – PRIMUS, 2005
We present a design for a junior level numerical methods course that focuses on a series of five open-ended projects in applied mathematics. These projects were deliberately designed to present many of the ambiguities and complexities that appear any time we use mathematics in the real world, and so they offered the students a variety of possible…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Cues, Teacher Education Curriculum, Internet
Facilitating Malaysian Student Teachers' Understanding of the Biology Syllabus through Concept Mapping
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Ali, Maznah; Ismail, Zurida – Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast Asia, 2005
This article describes the outcome of an exercise carried out with one hundred undergraduate student teachers (preservice teachers) enrolled in a Biology Teaching Methods course, a third year course in a four-year Teacher Education Programme. The students, working in groups of three to four, were assigned to construct a concept map showing their…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Concept Mapping, Undergraduate Students, Student Teachers
Misconceptions about the Moon Held by Preservice Teachers in Taiwan.
Dai, Meme F.; Capie, William – 1990
The objective of this study was to assess the misconceptions held by preservice teachers about essential concepts of the moon related to information taught in elementary schools in Taiwan and to develop multiple-choice test items to identify the misconceptions about the moon. Additionally, this study considered relationships of gender, religion,…
Descriptors: Astronomy, College Science, Cultural Influences, Earth Science