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Mr. Ray Peterson Associate Professor David Treagust 《Research in Science Education》1992,22(1):323-330
This paper discusses a preliminary investigation into primary pre-service teachers' pedagogical reasoning skills. Results
from this investigation led to the development of a problem-based learning model which focused on improving primary pre-service
teachers' pedagogical reasoning skills. The problem-based learning model uses pedagogical reasoning as the basis for creating
problem situations for the pre-service teachers to investigate. The paper reports on pre-service teachers' views on the use
of the approach to improve their pedagogical reasoning skills.
Specializations: science teacher education, learning in science, chemistry education.
Specializations: student learning, conceptual change, technology education, curriculum evaluation. 相似文献
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Preparing student teachers to teach thoughtfully and to consider carefully the consequences of their work involves creating
opportunities for these beginning teachers to learn the skills and attitudes required for reflective practive. The case study
described here explores one model of developing reflective practice and the congruent role that the source and use of knowledge
of good teaching practice has in the process of developing the reflective practices of a post-graduate pre-service science
teacher. Of particular interest are the facilitators and barriers she sees as affecting this development.
Specializations: Science education, science teacher education
Specializations: science education, science teacher education, conceptual change, learning environments, science reasoning. 相似文献
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Mr Jeffrey P. Dorman Dr Campbell J. McRobbie Dr Barry J. Fraser 《Research in Science Education》1993,23(1):61-67
Much Catholic school and church rhetoric suggests that Catholic schools possess distinctive learning environments. Research
into this aspect of Catholic schooling has been hampered by the lack of an appropriate assessment instrument. By drawing on
contemporary church literature, the perceptions of personnel involved in Catholic education and existing classroom environment
questionnaires, a new instrument was developed to assess student perceptions of classroom psychosocial environment in Catholic
schools. The use of this instrument in 64 classrooms in Catholic and Government schools indicated significant differences
on some scales. The distinctive nature of Catholic schooling did not extend to all classroom environment dimensions deemed
important to Catholic education.
Specializations: Catholic education, learning environments.
Specializations: conceptual change in students, science teacher professional development, scientific reasoning, learning environments.
Specializations: learning environments, science education, educational evaluation, curriculum. 相似文献
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Many introductory biochemistry students have problems understanding metabolism and acquiring the skills necessary to study
metabolic pathways. In this paper we suggest that this may be largely due to the use of a traditional teaching approach which
emphasises memorisation rather than understanding. We present an alternative approach to teaching carbohydrate metabolism
which is designed to promote understanding of pathways. The approach also enables regular monitoring of, and reflection on,
student progress and the identification of student reasoning and conceptual difficulties through the use of specially designed
problems. Preliminary results are presented giving examples of specific student difficulties and the extent to which they
were addressed by the alternative instructional approach. A qualitative evaluation of the approach is also presented.
Specializations: metal accumulating plants biochemical education.
Specializations: physics education, conceptual development, instructional design, improvement of tertiary science education. 相似文献
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Towards a theoretical basis for students' alternative frameworks in science and for science teaching 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Dr Brian L. Jones Professor Kevin F. Collis Dr Jane M. Watson 《Research in Science Education》1993,23(1):126-135
As there is nothing as practical as a good theory, there is a continuing need in the field of science education enquiry to
look for theories which help to interpret the findings about students' alternative frameworks and to inform the design of
teaching strategies which relate to a research focus on ‘how the student learns’. The developmental model of cognitive functioning
based on the SOLO Taxonomy (Biggs & Collis, 1982) as updated in 1991 (Biggs & Collis, 1991; Collis & Biggs, 1991) is being
applied in this way. Questionnaire data from two large studies of science learning of Australian students (conducted by ACER
and NBEET) are being re-analysed in terms of the current theory. This paper illustrates the theory and describes a plan of
further research.
Specializations: science education, students' understandings of phenomena in science.
Specializations: cognitive development, evaluation, mathematics and science education.
Specializations: mathematics education, students' understanding of chance and data concepts. 相似文献
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Summary There is some evidence from this study that reflectivity within cooperative learning groups develops over time. Preliminary
observations suggest that Slavin's third and fourth levels of skills, those of reflection and reasoning and reconception and
reformulation and Kempa and Ayob's higher levels of explanation and insight appear more advanced in groups strategically managed
by teachers for such outcomes. Later analyses will permit more detailed accounts of the relationships between the teacher's
management strategies, and reflection within groups of different gender composition.
Specializations: science teacher education.
Specializations: studies in twentieth century science education in Australia, teacher education. 相似文献
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While constructivism has emerged as a major reform in science education from the last decade, wide-spread adoption of constructivist
practices in school laboratories and classrooms is yet to be achieved. If constructivist approaches are to be utilised more
widely, teachers will need to accept a more active and constructivist role in their own pedagogical learning. One experienced
junior science teacher was able to implement constructivist approaches in her classroom by using a personally constructed
metaphor to guide her practice.
Specializations: science education, teaching of thinking, professional development.
Specializations: constructivism, professional development. 相似文献
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Despite the almost mandatory inclusion of a laboratory component in the school curriculum very little has been reported about
the effects of laboratory instruction upon student learning and attitudes. The present study was undertaken to investigate
the thinking of students in a chemistry laboratory. An interpretive research method was adopted in collecting and analysing
data gathered from observations, general interviews and stimulated recall interviews. Four high school students were studied
during their participation in a week-long university summer school program. This study reports how the four students responded
differently to the same laboratory experience.
Specializations: chemistry and biochemistry education, thinking in science and industry.
Specializations: science education, teacher learning and preparation, teaching thinking. 相似文献
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The premise that underlies the pre-service science teacher education program at Monash University is the need to focus on
the nature of learning in ways that encourage student-teachers to reconsider their conceptions of learning and how this relates
to their view of teaching. The purpose of teaching portfolios is to act as a prompt for student-teachers to reconsider these
conceptions and as a way of helping them to better articulate their professional knowledge. The Science (Stream 3) student
teachers construct a portfolio of teaching strategies, episodes, ideas, etc. that demonstrate how they see their role as science
teachers. The portfolio is ungraded, openended and organised as a dynamic assessment task, not just a static end product.
This paper reports on student-teachers' understanding of, and approach to portfolios as they come to understand its purpose
and value.
Specializations: chemistry and science education, technology and industry links with science curriculum
Specializations: science education, reflection, curriculum and evaluation 相似文献
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John O'Brien 《Research in Science Education》1993,23(1):214-221
The emphasis in classroom learning research has moved from process-product models to the mediating process paradigm. The stimulated-recall
interview and thik aloud techniques are the two main processes that have been used in attempts to find out what goes on inside
students' heads while they are learning. For example, this researcher has used the stimulated-recall interview technique to
identify the workplace thinking of a marine science researcher, and the in-class thinking of a year eleven biology student.
Such studies as these have produced findings with important implications for the classroom teacher in the role of action researcher.
This paper describes how to conduct stimulated-recall interviews and discusses some classroom implications from the two studies.
Specializations: secondary science teacher education, classroom thinking during instruction, direct teaching of thinking skills. 相似文献
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Beverley Jane Associate Professor Marjory-Dore Martin Russell Tytler 《Research in Science Education》1991,21(1):188-197
A study of primary teacher trainees' perceptions and attitudes to science in 1990, has been useful in designing a semester
unit aimed at increasing the confidence and interest of first year students at Victoria College. This paper outlines the background
survey and discusses some, of the results and how they were used to develop the Professional Readiness Study-Understanding
Science. This unit attempts to change attitudes by focussing on metacognition and encourages students to understand and control
their own learning. Discussion involves teaching and learning strategies and alternative assessment approaches including the
student's journal-the Personal Record.
Specializations: technology for learning, health education.
Specializations student understanding of biology, particularly genetics, evaluation.
Specializations: children's learning in science, language in science. 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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This study explored the interactions of a highly motivated group of students doing traditional practical work in science.
Interest focussed on the social construction of understanding and how this could be described. Despite considerable collaboration
in constructing an understanding of the task the students rarely focussed on the concepts the practical work was intended
to illustrate. Collaboration was described in terms of social behaviours and discourse moves which supported the use of cognitive
strategies.
Specializations: science practical work, collaborative group work, role of language.
Specializations: science teacher education, conceptual change, learning environments, science reasoning. 相似文献
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Carmel McNaught Dianne Raubenheimer Margaret Keogh Rob O'Donoghue Jim Taylor 《Research in Science Education》1992,22(1):291-298
This paper describes an ongoing process of participatory curriculum development. It outlines some of the tensions which need
to be explored in science curriculum development: debates about the nature of science, of society, of school science content
and of learning theories. The process whereby action can arise from this debate is also explored. An example will be outlined
of a network of science curriculum action which has developed from the work of a range of science education projects in Natal,
South Africa.
Specializations: science curriculum development from primary to tertiary level.
Specializations: inservice primary science teacher development.
Specializations: inservice teacher development, biology education.
Specializations: environmental education, teacher development.
Specializations: environmental education, teacher 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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Intuition was one of the four key themes for science education that emerged from the Woods Hole Conference in 1957. Despite
the considerable influence of this conference on a generation of curriculum projects the intuition theme was almost completely
ignored. Recent studies of intuition, including an analysis of Nobel laureates' views of scientific intuition, are considered.
This enables several conceptions of the nature and role of intuition in science to be defined, and its importance to be assessed.
The assumption that it is also important in science education is examined by considering conditions in science teaching and
learning that may encourage intuitive thinking in the light of current research developments that could lead to a new agenda
for school science.
Specializations: science and technology curriculum, environmental education, educational disadvantage.
Specializations: phenomenography, ways of knowing, higher education—teaching and learning. 相似文献
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MS. Christine Chin DRS. Ngoh-Khang Goh Lian-Sai Chia Kam-Wah Lucille Lee DR. Kay-Cheng Soh 《Research in Science Education》1994,24(1):41-50
The use of problem-solving in science instruction implies a change in the teacher's role from dispensing content information
to encouraging critical reflective thinking in the student. For problem-solving to become an integral part of the science
curriculum, teachers must make it the focus of their instruction. This study investigated the extent to which pre-service
primary teachers used the problem-solving approach in their science instruction. It also identified the factors affecting
their efforts to teach science using this approach. The issues considered are important in whether problem-solving becomes
part of the science curriculum, as teaching behaviour influences student learning outcomes.
Specializations: science eeducation
Specializations: educational measurement, research methodology. 相似文献
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Constructivist views of learning have been applied to science education largely as a response to attempts to understand the
origins of students' misconceptions in science, and therefore the learning process. As part of this effort to understand learning
in science lessons, Appleton (1989) proposed a learning model drawn mainly from Piagetian (1978) ideas and generative learning
theory (Osborne & Wittrock, 1983). This paper explores the development and evolution of the learning model as other constructivist
view were applied, and as the model was tested against students' responses in science lessons. The revised model finally arrived
at is then examined. It was found to be a useful means of describing student's learning processes during a science lesson.
Specializations: primary teacher education, teaching strategies in science, cognitive change and learning theories.
Specializations: secondary science teacher education, chemical education. 相似文献
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Dr Lynda J. Creedy 《Research in Science Education》1993,23(1):34-41
This paper examines the continuation of a study investigating senior secondary students' understanding of concepts in biology.
In this study, year 11 student understandings of natural selection were examined by questionnaire using different question
formats. The SOLO taxonomy of Biggs and Collis (1982) was used as the theoretical framework with which the quality of student
learning was assessed.
This paper puts forward the usefulness of the SOLO taxonomy in assessing student understanding in biology in general and in
examining student understanding of the concept of natural selection in particular. The paper goes on to examine the implications
of these results and raises issues which have applicability to criterion-based assessment in secondary science.
Specializations: science and technology education, biology teacher education, applications of multimedia to science education 相似文献
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Jane Butler Kahle Ph.D. Andrea Anderson M.A.T. Arta Damnjanovic M.S. 《Research in Science Education》1991,21(1):208-216
A study, originally don in Australia in 1983, was replicated in an urban-suburb in the Unitd States. The Australian project
vivolved matched pairs of year-fiv teachers in one of two workshops. One workshop taught the skills of teaching electricity,
while the other one discussed issues in gender equity in science education (active participation of both girls and boys, comparble
student-teacher interactions, and research findings concerning equity). The U.S. study provided three types of workshops (skills,
equity and skills, and equity) for comparable groups of fourth and fifth grade teachers. All teachers and their students were
subsequently obseved during lessons involving an electricity unit, queried both students and teachers concerning the appropriateness
of different fields of science for boys and girls and their interest and aptitudes in doing various types of science. Results
from both studies suggest that gender differences in student attitudes toward science may be amellorated by specific types
of teacher workshop.
Specializations: Gender research, science teacher education, science education national policy.
Specializations: Elementary and middle school science education, classroom research.
Specializations: Secondary science education, data analysis. 相似文献