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Dr. Marilyn Fleer 《Research in Science Education》1992,22(1):132-139
The National Statement on Technology Education will soon be released in Australia. The statement advocates adesign,make andappraise approach to technology education. The document includes Year One children and provides exemplars of curriculum activities
for early childhood children. Although much curriculum development in technology education for primary and early childhood
has taken place in the UK, little research has been conducted within the early childhood area in Australia. This paper describes
a study which sought to investigate how thedesign,make andappraise approach could be implemented within early childhood using existing materials, procedures and teaching programmes. In particular,
the pre-school programme was considered to see if the approach was suitable for young children, and if girls could be encouraged
into this newly defined area of study.
Specializations: early childhood science education, early childhood technology education. 相似文献
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Ms. R. I. Coulson 《Research in Science Education》1991,21(1):345-347
Studies of children's attitudes towards science indicate that a tendency for girls and boys to have different patterns of
interest in science is established by upper primary school level. It is not know when these interest patterns develop.
This paper presents the results of part of a project designed to investigate preschool children's interests in science. Individual
4–5 year-old children were asked to say what they would prefer to do from each of a series of paired drawings showing either
a science and a non-science activity, or activities from two different areas of science.
Girls and boys were very similar in their overall patterns of choice for science and non-science items. Within science, the
average number of physical science items chosen by boys was significantly greater than the average number chosen by girls
(p=.026). Girls tended to choose more biology items than did boys, but this difference was not quite significant at the .05
level (p=.054). The temporal stability of these choices was explored.
Specializations: early childhood science education, biological aspects of child development. 相似文献
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This pilot study set out to ascertain whether the level of dependence on resource material is related to teaching experience,
existing understanding in mechanics, and perceived self confidence in science and technology. Details of teaching experience
and qualifications were obtained from 11 experienced teachers and 10 initial teacher trainees, and understanding of mechanics
was assessed by a written test. Each teacher worked through one commercially produced inservice pack about levers, pulleys
or gears, and then prepared a 30 minute session for 4 ten year old children. Videos of the sessions were analysed with respect
to the extent to which the pack was the sole focus; the amount of integration with other teaching aids and approaches; and
the extent individual children's needs were satisfied. Although science qualifications influenced teacher confidence, they
were not accurate predictors of relevant knowledge and teaching competence. As the majority of teachers followed pack instructions
closely, the children's needs were not always well matched.
Specializations: primary science and technology, teacher education.
Specialisations: science education. 相似文献
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Colin Webb 《Research in Science Education》1993,23(1):327-336
This study examines teacher perceptions regarding professional development practices used in a region of the NSW Department
of School Education to support the implementation of the K-6 Science and Technology Syllabus. The findings from a survey of
97 teachers indicate that teachers have a preference for ‘traditional’ models of in-service which may not bring about significant
changes. Teachers also perceive that change is brought about through the influence of external factors such as in-service
and resources which are not directly the responsibillity of individual teachers. This contrasts with the perception that the
inability to change is due to internal personal qualities.
Specializations; K-6 teacher education in science and technology education, children's learning in science and technology. 相似文献
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Dr Tim Hardy Ms Margaret Bearlin Dr Valda Kirkwood 《Research in Science Education》1990,20(1):142-151
The aim of the Primary and Early Childhood Science and Technology Education Project (PECSTEP) is to improve teaching and learning
in science and technology of by increasing the number of early childhood and primary teachers who are effective educators.
PECSTEP is based on an interactive model of teaching and systematically links work on gender with the learning and teaching
of science and technology. The project involves: a year-long inservice program which includes the development of a science
curriculum unit by teachers in their schools; linking of the preservice and inservice programs; and the development of support
networks for teachers. Each phase of PECSTEP has been researched by means of surveys, interviews and the use of diaries. Research
questions have focussed particularly on changes in: teachers’ and student teachers’ attitudes to teaching science and technology;
their perceptions of science and technology; their perceptions of their students’ responses and their understandings of how
gender relates to these areas.
Specializations: primary science curriculum, science teacher education, sociology of science, technology and education.
Specializations: gender and science/science teacher education, feminist theory, curriculum theory.
Specializations: Science education research, curriculum development. 相似文献
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Alison Grindrod Andrea Klindworth Dr. Marjory-Dore Martin Russell Tytler 《Research in Science Education》1991,21(1):151-160
In 1990, a large proportion of third year primary trainee teachers at Victoria College had observed or taught very few or
no science lessons during the first two years of their course. The students felt that a lack of content knowledge, a crowded
school curriculum, and problems associated with managing resources and equipment, were the main factors contributing to the
low level of science being taught in schools. By the end of their third year significantly more students had taught science
than after the second year. There was also a change in approach to teaching science with more practical activities being included
than previously. The science method unit taught to the students in the third year of their course contributed to this increase.
The students considered the hands-on activities in class to have been the most effective aspect of the unit in their preparation
for the teaching of primary science.
Specializations: children's learning in science, primary teacher education.
Specializations: student understanding of biology, evaluation of formal and informal educational settings.
Specializations: gender, science and technology, environmental education.
Specializations: children's learning in science, language and science. 相似文献
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Unattended science and technology exhibits of both static and operational types have been an integral part of museum displays
for many years. More recently interactive exhibits in which observers are encouraged to become part of the system of exhibits
have become more common. A study was commenced to explore the impact and potential of low cost, unattended, interactive exhibitsset up singly in a normal school classroom without the distractions of a multiplicity of activities as is common in ‘science museums’. Three small groups of Grade 5/6
primary school children interacted with a ‘Falling Towers’ exhibit and their voluntary activities were recorded on videotape
for later analysis. Children appeared to state the results of their activity in ways consistent with their expectations rather
than with their most recent experience with the exhibit. The responses of girls, boys and mixed groups are reported.
Specializations: primary mathematics and science education, teaching strategies.
Specializations: science education, students' understandings of phenomena in science. 相似文献
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Gender-inclusive technology materials for the primary school: A case study in curriculum development
Dr. Adrianne Kinnear Dr. David Treagust Dr. Leonie Rennie 《Research in Science Education》1991,21(1):224-233
This paper describes how an idea for technology education materials developed into a process for producing unique curriculum
modules for teaching technology in a gender-inclusive way to primary children. Using a case-study format, the paper describes
the interaction between participants, the sequential evolution of the materials themselves and the degree to which success
was achieved in terms of the original goals. The study demonstrates how an awareness of gender bias needs to be a feature
from the earliest stages of curriculum development, through to the trialling and modification stages. The curriculum materials
were a product of effective cooperation between teachers, science educators and community representatives. They utilise a
“process” approach to the teaching of technology and in this presentation, we demonstrate how this same approach is a useful
framework for describing this particular curriculum development.
Specializations: primary science and technology education, gender issues.
Specializations: diagnosis of student learning and teaching for conceptual change, technology education, curriculum evaluation.
Specializations: affective aspects of science and technology education, gender issues. 相似文献
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This paper describes research into teachers' perceptions of technology education carried out as part of the Learning in Technology
Education Project. Thirty primary and secondary school teachers were interviewed. Secondary teachers interpreted technology
education in terms of their subject subcultures as did some primary teachers. The primary teachers were also influenced by
current initiatives, outside school interests and teaching programs.
Specializations: investigations in science, science and technology education.
Specializations: learning theories, history and philosophy of science, chemical education. 相似文献
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This paper outlines work in progress on a study which is investigating what children understand about natural and processed
materials and how scientific learning on the topic could be extended and reinforced in the home. Four different interview
schedules for eliciting children's understanding were developed and tried out. Children's understandings prior to each of
the four units, and at the conclusion of the teaching program were documented through individual interviews. Family interviews
were also conducted prior to and at the conclusion to the teaching. In this paper the difficulties associated with researching
young children's thinking are explored. The rationale for a storytelling context for the interviews is presented, and there
is a preliminary discussion on the effectiveness of the methodology utilised.
Specializations: early childhood science education; the Curriculum Corporation K-3 Science Program.
Specializations: primary science education, teacher education in science, adult experiences of science and technology; the K-3 Science Program. 相似文献
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Russell Tytler 《Research in Science Education》1994,24(1):338-347
A study of primary school children's explanations of a range of phenomena concerning air pressure revealed considerable fluidity
in their use of conceptions. A measure of consistency was developed and applied to children's written and oral explanations
in a range of contexts. While the results showed a general trend with age toward more abstract, ‘generalizable’ conceptions,
the notion of parsimony was found to be problematic on a number of levels. Children do not apply a single conception to a
phenomenon, but rather operate with multiple conceptions in their explanations, complicating the whole notion of consistency.
Moreover, as they develop and apply more advanced conceptions, children inevitably display temporary reductions in consistency.
These findings suggest a rather more complex model of conceptual advance than implied in the literature on ‘conceptual change’.
Specializations: children's science explanations, conceptual change, primary science teacher education, physics education. 相似文献
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Dr Janet Burns 《Research in Science Education》1992,22(1):72-80
Growing interest in technology education in 1988 led the Curriculum Development Division of the then New Zealand Department
of Education to seek a survey of students' perceptions of technology using the internationally trialled Pupils' Attitudes
Towards Technology (PATT) questionnaire. Early in 1989 a national sample of 1,469 form 3 students completed the questionnaire
and responded to an open question about the nature of technology. Results indicated that students have generally positive
attitudes towards technology, but poor concepts of technology. The nature of these attitudes and concepts and related factors
have implications for the development of the National Curriculum Statement in Technology.
Specializations: science and technology education, gender 相似文献
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Dr Paul L Gardner 《Research in Science Education》1990,20(1):124-133
Technology encompasses the goods and services which people make and provide to meet human needs, and the processes and systems
used for their development and delivery. Although technology and science are related, a distinction can be made between their
purposes and outcomes. This paper considers four possible approaches to teaching students about the relationship between technology
and science. Atechnology-as-illustration approach treats technology as if it were applied science; artefacts are presented to illustrate scientific principles. Acognitive-motivational approach also treats technology as applied science, but presents technology early in the instructional sequence in order
to promote student interest and understanding. In anartefact approach, learners study artefacts as systems in order to understand the scientific principles which explain their workings.
Finally, atechnology-as-process approach emphasises the role of technological capability; in this approach, scientific concepts do not have privileged status
as a basis for selecting curriculum content.
Specializations: science and technology education, educational evaluation, measurement of attitudes and interests. 相似文献
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Dr. Susan Rodrigues 《Research in Science Education》1994,24(1):280-286
The National Curriculum programme of study for Science 1 in England and Wales states that pupils should be encouraged to develop
investigative skills and understanding of science through activities which “promote the search for patterns in data and the
ability to make simple predictions based on findings” (Department of Education and Science, 1991, p. 14). In order to search
for patterns children have to first understand the purpose of graphs and the relationship of variables. This paper describes
some of the preliminary findings of the Data Handling in Primary Science Project. The majority of primary school children,
involved in a data handling project (Rodrigues, 1994), see graphs in science as an end product to be displayed. In addition
the children appeared to have a very limited understanding for the type of graph employed being determined by the variable
involved. Furthermore whilst some of the children were able to read information from a graph, the language used had a marked
effect on cueing the response.
Specializations: use of information technology in primary science, chemistry curriculum development. 相似文献
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Brian L. Jones 《Research in Science Education》1990,20(1):161-170
The term ‘concept’ is used in different ways within educational literature and has at least two different, although related,
referents in relation to science knowledge, namely, public knowledge and private understandings. A taxonomic structure for
‘science concepts’ (public knowledge) has been developed to provide a rationale for the choice of phenomena to be used in
the investigation of students’ ‘concepts’ and also to act as a frame of reference for generating insights about the data to
be collected. Furthermore, it may be a useful heuristic to predict other science concepts likely to be highly problematic
in school teaching situations and thus worthy of detailed research. The taxonomy, called a ‘Scale of Empirical Distance’ (SED),
enables science concepts to be mapped according to their degree of closeness to concrete realities. The scale shows a recognition
of the empirical basis of science concepts and the role of human senses in the perception of the material world even though
“absolute objectivity of observation is not a possible ideal of science” as Harre (1972) has noted. The scale uses two binary
variables, namely, ‘visual’ and ‘tactile’, to generate four categories of science concepts ranging on a continuum from concrete
to abstract. Some concepts related to ‘matter’ will be classified and discussed.
Specializations: science teacher education, primary science curriculum and methods, students’ personal meanings of phenomena. 相似文献
17.
Gilda Segal 《Research in Science Education》1992,22(1):348-357
To address expected negative attitudes to studying science and technology held by primary school student teachers, we devised
a learning model which combined cooperative group strategies with a learners' questions approach in a context which allowed
for pluralism in methodology and epistemology. The model was used in a teacher education elective subject studied by final
year Diploma of Teaching students at the University of Technology, Sydney. We found that some students were inexperienced
in participating in the planning and design of their learning and that for many students, being responsible for their learning
in a science and technology context aroused reactions of alarm and determined avoidance so that alternative pathways for achievement
in the subject had to be offered. Some students reported feelings of satisfaction in their successful learning despite initial
anxiety, low confidence or indifference.
Specializations: children's learning in science and technology; inclusion; contexts, teaching models. 相似文献
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Rachel Wood 《Research in Science Education》1993,23(1):337-344
Genetics is an area of science that causes problems for children. This paper reviews initial findings from research into children's
views of how inheritance works and the role this plays in their overall view of genetics. The implications these results have
for the traditional approach to genetics education are outlined. An alternative approach is proposed.
Specializations: teacher development, science and technology curriculum development. 相似文献
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Ms Beverley L Jane 《Research in Science Education》1990,20(1):152-160
In Victoria, schools are adopting one common certificate, the VCE (Victorian Certificate of Education) which encompasses two
years of study (Years 11 and 12) and comprises 44 subject areas or Studies, each of one semester duration. Amongst the compulsory
subjects is Australian Studies (Units 1 and 2) with its focus on Work in Australian society. This paper discusses concerns
about the teaching of the compulsory subject Australian Studies in the new VCE. The purpose is to consider whether the science
and technology component in the Australian Studies course can raise the students’ level of scientific and technological literacy.
The discussion is based on one semester’s teaching experience of Year 11 Australian Studies and consequent reflections on
practice.
Specializations: science and technology teacher education, technology in the curriculum. 相似文献
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MS Yvonne Zeegers 《Research in Science Education》1994,24(1):358-365
Research into teacher inservice in primary science generally focuses on evaluating the objectives of each program in terms
of the immediate outcomes. Little research appears to have been conducted into the long term effects of interactive inservice
programs on the classroom practice of the participants. During 1993 the long term effects of participation in the Primary
Science/Technology Project (Sci-Tec), as perceived by the teacher participants, were investigated. Focus teachers who had
participated in Sci-Tec between 1988–1991 were asked to provide information about their current science teaching practice,
and about the influence that Sci-Tec had had on their current practice. Six of these teachers were then interviewed to determine
which specific aspects of the project they believed had most influenced the development of their current classroom practice
in teaching science.
Specializations: inservice and preservice in primary science and technology. 相似文献