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Charlotte A. Otto Susan A. Everett Richard H. Moyer Paul W. Zitzewitz 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2012,10(3):531-552
In this study, we looked at the impact of our specially designed inquiry-based science courses for pre-service elementary teachers on their science content knowledge as measured by a high-stakes state certification test for elementary education. We conducted a pre/post-analysis of the certification test scores of 1,003 pre-service teachers. Cohort 1 consisted of 424 students who took the test prior to implementation of our reformed science courses. Cohort 2 consisted of 579 students taking the test after complete implementation. We examined overall test scores, science subscores, total science credits, age, and science transfer credits. We found that the overall test score dropped significantly from cohort 1 to cohort 2, but the science subscores remained unchanged. Our results showed that students who took all 3 of the science content courses vs. none scored significantly higher on the science portion, non-traditional students (older than 25) scored similarly to traditional-aged students, and there was a negative correlation with the number of science courses transferred. Of importance is the fact that students who took the minimal number of science courses and are less interested in science passed the science portion at the same rate (over 90%) as science majors and minors. We conclude that our pre-service elementary teachers can and do learn science content using inquiry as recommended by the National Science Education Standards (NRC, 1996). 相似文献
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This research examined the relationship between content instruction and the development of elementary teacher candidates' understanding of conceptual change pedagogy. Undergraduate students (n = 27) enrolled in two sections of a science methods course received content instruction through either traditional or conceptual change methods, followed by instruction about conceptual change pedagogy. Candidates were interviewed pre- and postinstruction about their content and pedagogical knowledge and also wrote conceptual change lessons. Twelve of the 27 subjects were videotaped teaching in the field. Results indicate that prior to instruction, most candidates had weak content knowledge and held traditional pedagogical conceptions. After instruction, students in the conceptual change group had significantly larger gains in their content knowledge than those in the traditional group, gave qualitatively stronger pedagogical responses, and used conceptual change strategies more consistently in practice. These results indicate that personal experience of learning science content through conceptual change methods facilitated the development of understanding and use of conceptual change pedagogy in teaching practice. Thus if conceptual change methods are to be incorporated into teacher candidates' repertoire, science content courses that students take prior to teacher education should be taught using conceptual change pedagogy. In addition, courses in science education should use pedagogy more in line with that taught in methods courses. 相似文献
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Emily H. van Zee 《科学教学研究杂志》1998,35(7):791-809
The four standards for professional development of teachers of science from the National Science Education Standards (NRC, 1996) provided a frame for reflection upon ways in which prospective teachers engaged in research in my courses on methods of teaching science. Students learned both science content and science pedagogy by inquiry. An extended research project helped students to integrate knowledge of science, learning, pedagogy, and students, and to apply that to teaching science. Students built knowledge, skills, and attitudes for lifelong learning by participating in a research festival and presenting at conferences. I designed this science-teaching methods course in the context of a teacher education program that is attempting to implement reform approaches to instruction. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Res Sci Teach 35: 791–809, 1998. 相似文献
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Walter S. Smith 《科学教学研究杂志》1982,19(5):367-375
A random sample of 400 K-12 science educators who were members of the National Science Teachers Association were surveyed regarding their attitude toward and practice of career education in their science teaching. These science teachers rejected a narrowly vocational view, favoring instead a conception of career education which included self-perception, values analysis, and vocational skills objectives. The science educators affirmed the importance of career education for a student's education, asserted career education ought to be taught in their existing science courses, and expressed a willingness to do so. Fewer than one-third of the science teachers, however, reported incorporating career education at least on a weekly basis in their science lessons. The major impediment to including more career education in science teaching was seen to be their lack of knowledge of methods and materials relevant to science career education, rather than objections from students, parents, or administrators; their unwillingness; or their evaluation of career education as unimportant. Thus, in order to improve this aspect of science teaching, science teachers need more concrete information about science career education applications. 相似文献
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Dr. Joseph I. Stepans Patricia A. McClurg Ronald E. Beiswenger 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》1995,6(3):158-163
Conclusion To educate teachers who have adequate content knowledge, possess the necessary skills to implement effective teaching strategies,
and are confident and have positive attitudes toward science and the teaching of science, alternative teaching models are
necessary. The University of Wyoming model provides such an alternative. Based on observations and interviews of students
and the mentor teachers, it is apparent that it has created a very positive response in prospective teachers who have participated
in it.
The Wyoming model provided an effective process to train future elementary teachers. Even though it focused on science, the
basis is general enough that it could be successfully extended to other disciplines with only minor modifications; however,
all of the major components of the Wyoming model are vital to its success.
Content courses designed specifically for prospective teachers have been successful in giving the students the content knowledge
and providing opportunities for effective modeling. The seminars provide strong mechanisms to connect content to methodology
and make the content relevant to teaching and to children. Because of their modeling, peer coaching, and sharing their time
and students, the mentor teachers are essential partners in helping the university educate future teachers. Finally, the cooperation
of all partners—district administrators, teachers, science content and science education university faculty, and students—is
necessary to provide early and continuous experiences to prospective teachers.
This material is based upon work supported in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation (Grant No. TTE-8851105).
Any opinions, findings, conclusions, and/or recommendations expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not
necessarily reflect those of the NSF. 相似文献
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王文成 《漯河职业技术学院学报》2002,1(1):40-44
大学生文化素质教育是我国各高校面向 2 1世纪教学改革的重要课题。师范生整体素质不高的根本原因、是缺乏丰厚的文化底蕴。师范教育的人文化倾向、要求师范生会为师、会育人、会教研、会管理。这些对师范教育质的规定性 ,要求师范生文化素质教育必须走内涵式发展的路子 ,在师范大学生的政治和思想道德素质、科学文化素质、人文素质、心理素质、教师职业素质和审美素质等方面的教育和培养上下功夫 ,必须处理好人文素养和科学素养、民族文化和世界文化、先进文化与强势文化、“授业”与“传道”、政治理论课和文化专业课等方面的关系 相似文献
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传统的科学教学课堂,内容形式单一枯燥,而且受时间和空间的限制因素极大,局限了学生对科学的兴趣。素质教育要求培养德智体美劳全方位发展的综合型、应用型人才,对课程的要求更为灵活巧妙,充分体现了学生在教育活动中的主体地位。因此,在科学教学中,要激发学生的学习兴趣,引导学生主动积极地学习科学知识。 相似文献
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The purpose of this report is to outline our experiences designing and teaching a course on the nature of science to science education graduate students. By addressing questions related to the creation of a new university course, the design of the course syllabus, and the transformation of the syllabus into instruction, we hope to make our craft knowledge more accessible to others who create such courses. 相似文献
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Francis Jones 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》2017,42(5):772-787
Evaluating major post-secondary education improvement projects involves multiple perspectives, including students’ perceptions of their experiences. In the final year of a seven-year department-wide science education initiative, we asked students in 48 courses to rate the extent to which each of 39 teaching or learning strategies helped them learn in the course. Results were related to the type of improvement model used to enhance courses, class size and course year level. Overall, students perceived unimproved courses as least helpful. Small courses that were improved with support from science education specialists were perceived overall as more helpful than similar courses improved by expert teaching-focused faculty without support, while the opposite was found for medium courses. Overall perceptions about large courses were similar to perceptions of medium courses. Perceived helpfulness of individual strategies was more nuanced and context dependent, and there was no consistent preference for either traditional or newer evidence-based instructional practices. Feedback and homework strategies were most helpful in smaller courses and independently improved courses. Results indicate that students are perceptive to benefits that arise when improvements are made either by expert educators or by research-focused faculty who received dedicated support from science education specialists. 相似文献
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John M. Reveles Gregory J. Kelly Richard P. Durán 《Cultural Studies of Science Education》2007,1(3):467-495
This ethnographic study of a third grade classroom examined elementary school science learning as a sociocultural accomplishment.
The research focused on how a teacher helped his students acquire psychological tools for learning to think and engage in
scientific practices as locally defined. Analyses of classroom discourse examined both how the teacher used mediational strategies
to frame disciplinary knowledge in science as well as how students internalized and appropriated ways of knowing in science.
The study documented and analyzed how students came to appropriate scientific knowledge as their own in an ongoing manner
tied to their identities as student scientists. Implications for sociocultural theory in science education research are discussed.
John Reveles is an assistant professor in the Elementary Education Department at California State University, Northridge. He received
his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2005. Before pursuing his Ph.D., he worked as a bilingual elementary
school teacher for 3 years. His research focuses on the development of scientific literacy in elementary school settings;
sociocultural influences on students' academic identity; equity of access issues in science education; qualitative and quantitative
research methods. Within the Michael D. Eisner College of Education, he teaches elementary science curriculum methods courses,
graduate science education seminars, and graduate research courses.
Gregory Kelly is a professor of science education at Penn State University. He is a former Peace Corps Volunteer and physics teacher. He
received his Ph.D. from Cornell in 1994. His research focuses on classroom discourse, epistemology, and science learning.
This work has been supported by grants from Spencer Foundation, National Science Foundation, and the National Academy of Education.
He teaches courses concerning the uses of history, philosophy, sociology of science in science teaching and teaching and learning
science in secondary schools. He is editor of the journal Science Education.
Richard Durán is a Professor in the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara. His research and publications
have been in the areas of literacy and assessment of English Language Learners and Latino students. He has also conducted
research on after school computer clubs, technology and learning as part of the international UC Links Network. With support
from the Kellogg Foundation, he is implementing and investigating community and family-centered intervention programs serving
the educational progress of Latino students in the middle and high school grades. 相似文献
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Carol Springer Sargent 《高等教育研究与发展》2015,34(3):624-640
This study investigated how individual and course-level variables across the curriculum at a four-year college (college here refers to a higher education institution that offers undergraduate education but not graduate degrees) in the southeastern US impacted student reflective thinking as measured by Kember and colleagues' [2000. Development of a questionnaire to measure the level of reflective thinking. Assessment &; Evaluation in Higher Education, 25(4): 381–395] scale. The measure includes four constructs: (1) non-thinking (i.e., habitual action), (2) understanding, (3) reflection, and the deepest level (4) critical reflection. The construct of understanding – students' assessment of their thoughtful use of knowledge – was the only measure that increased with credit hours completed. Students (n?=?802) reported more thinking to comprehend in science courses compared to business and humanities courses. An interaction of subject areas and gender showed that males reported more reflection in business courses than the humanities or science courses, and females reported the opposite (i.e., more reflection in humanities and science courses and less in business courses). All students, and especially older ones, were more likely to report thinking habits as the result of an overall college experience than from an individual course. A small set (6.23%), however, who did not report reflecting critically as the result of college did indicate that the current course prompted them to do so. Deeper habits of thinking were reported in students who were awarded course credit for participation and for those enrolled in courses taught by more experienced faculty. 相似文献
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Iyah Romm Susannah Gordon-Messer Melissa Kosinski-Collins 《CBE life sciences education》2010,9(2):80-86
Although undergraduates have long held a role as teaching assistants for introductory science courses at liberal arts colleges and universities, educational institutions often do not provide these students with opportunities to explore science teaching and pedagogy. At Brandeis University, we designed an internship course to help increase the motivation, understanding, and knowledge of teaching pedagogy for undergraduate teaching assistants that is offered concurrently with their teaching responsibilities. Weekly sessions with faculty mentors are guided by readings in current science education literature, and throughout the semester students are asked to develop new course material based on the pedagogical frameworks discussed. To evaluate the effectiveness of this course, we surveyed students at the close of the semester. We found an overall increase in student confidence levels with regard to teaching and better awareness of the difficulties faced in science education. All students who participated in the course expressed interest in participating in future educational internships. We believe that the Educating Young Educators internship has the potential to be a catalyst for personal and professional growth from a novice into an informed young educator. 相似文献
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CAI Qi-yong 《课程.教材.教法》2008,(9)
开展科学的本质教育是培养学生科学素养的核心内容。正确的科学本质观建立在科学知识、科学方法以及科学情感态度与价值观的形成基础之上。通过实施新的科学教育理念,改革科学课程的教学内容,转变教师教学策略,使学习科学成为学生主动探究的过程,必将进一步引导学生加深对科学本质的认识和理解,促进学生科学本质观的形成与发展。 相似文献
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邹强 《湖北第二师范学院学报》2014,(5):65-69
通过对湖北省属6所高校小学教育本科专业课程设置与实施情况进行调查,结果发现：学生对课程设置的总体满意度不高,现有课程设置对个人发展影响不大,实践中较少运用所学课程知识,对技能类课程的价值有较高的认可度,认为现有课程设置理论性较强实践性不足,应增加实践性课程设置和加强实践教学环节。据此,应结合教师教育发展趋势,改革和调整小学教育专业现有课程设置,以更好地促进专业人才培养目标的实现。 相似文献
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Sutton R. Williams Kenneth L. Thompson Andrew J. Notebaert Allan R. Sinning 《Anatomical sciences education》2019,12(2):173-180
Due to the current trend of decreasing contact hours and less emphasis being given to the basic science courses in the pre-clinical years of medical education, it is essential that new approaches to teaching gross anatomy are investigated to ensure medical students are being adequately exposed to anatomical content. This study retrospectively analyzed practical examination data from four medical gross anatomy classes (N = 569) to ascertain which pedagogical approach, student participation in the dissection process, or interaction with prosected specimens is best for teaching the anatomy of the hand and foot. Data analysis involved the use of propensity score matching, a nonparametric preprocessing statistical approach which ensures accurate representation of the true treatment effect by balancing cohorts prior to statistical analysis. Statistical analysis indicated that those students who were exposed to the anatomy of the hand through interactions with prosected specimens performed 5.6% better (P = 0.012) while for the foot, students who interacted with prosections performed 13.0% better (P < 0.001). Although limited, data from this study suggest that utilizing prosections of the hand and foot seems to be a more advantageous pedagogical approach for teaching these regions than requiring students to dissect them. 相似文献
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Petra Kranzfelder Alexander T. Lo Marin P. Melloy Lindsey E. Walker 《International Journal of Science Education》2013,35(14):1944-1961
ABSTRACTTheoretically, organisational culture, instructor training, and learning space design influence how faculty teach STEM courses. Previous studies have used classroom observation protocols to characterise the range of teaching practices in mostly teacher-centered, traditional STEM classrooms. In this study, we examined the classroom behaviour of 13 STEM faculty teaching biology courses in a reformed undergraduate STEM learning environment. Our findings indicate that instructors teaching in this reformed environment guided student learning (58.4?±?1.9%) almost three times more than they presented information (20.0?±?2.2%). Students worked individually or in groups and talked to the whole class (57.1?±?1.8%) 1.5 times more than they received information (35.5?±?1.9%). We found significant positive correlation between ‘instructor presenting’ and ‘students receiving’ information (r?=?0.743, p?=?1.4?×?10?4) and ‘instructor guiding’ and ‘student working and talking’ in class (r?=?0.605, p?=?7.2?×?10?5), suggesting that instructors can change their own classroom behaviours and expect concurrent change in their students’ behaviours. Finally, sequencing teaching practices in high active-engagement classrooms showed instructors move and guide student group work and lead whole class discussions before lecturing to students, which could lead to deeper learning of conceptual knowledge. We discuss insights from these findings that have implications for acculturating evidence-based teaching practices in STEM departments. 相似文献