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《Teaching and Teacher Education》1995,11(4):313-330
This study examines changes in middle school student teachers' knowledge structures and beliefs related to class management during the final semester of their teacher education program. Twenty-three preservice teachers drew concept maps and participated in semi-structured interviews prior, during, and following 16 weeks of student teaching. Results of the study showed that initially student teachers are concerned with establishing and enforcing rules. They expressed discomfort with their authoritarian roles. During the middle of student teaching preservice teachers began to make connections among the variables that contribute to class management. By the end of student teaching preservice teachers experienced a conflict between their beliefs in rules, their desire to be flexible and fair, and their desire to develop positive student relationships as a mechanism to promote student learning. A framework of change for class management concepts is presented and the reported influences on the changes in student teachers' knowledge organization and beliefs are discussed. 相似文献
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Are preservice teachers prepared to teach struggling readers? 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Reading disabilities such as dyslexia, a specific learning disability that affects an individual’s ability to process written
language, are estimated to affect 15–20% of the general population. Consequently, elementary school teachers encounter students
who struggle with inaccurate or slow reading, poor spelling, poor writing, and other language processing difficulties. However,
recent evidence may suggest that teacher preparation programs are not providing preservice teachers with information about
basic language constructs and other components related to scientifically based reading instruction. As a consequence preservice
teachers have not exhibited explicit knowledge of such concepts in previous studies. Few studies have sought to assess preservice
teachers’ knowledge about dyslexia in conjunction with knowledge of basic language concepts. The purpose of the present study
was to examine elementary school preservice teachers’ knowledge of basic language constructs and their perceptions and knowledge
about dyslexia. Findings from the present study suggest that preservice teachers, on average, are able to display implicit
skills related to certain basic language constructs (i.e., syllable counting), but fail to demonstrate explicit knowledge
of others (i.e., phonics principles). Also, preservice teachers seem to hold the common misconception that dyslexia is a visual
perception deficit rather than a problem with phonological processing. Implications for future research as well as teacher
preparation are discussed. 相似文献
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Diakidoy Irene-Anna N. Iordanou Kalypso 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》2003,18(4):357-368
The study examined (a) the extent to which teachers and preservice teachers understand the concept of energy and adhere to particular preconceptions associated with it; and (b) their ability to predict pupils’ knowledge and understanding of the same concept. Teachers and preservice teachers completed a test by indicating for each item what their response was and what an average sixth-grade pupil’s response might have been, and their predictions were compared to actual pupil performance. Results indicated that teachers’ and preservice teachers’ understanding of the concept was far from complete, and that teachers were, in general, more likely to overestimate pupils’ knowledge. 相似文献
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Eulsun Seung Lynn A. Bryan Malcolm B. Butler 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》2009,20(2):157-177
The purpose of this study was to investigate changes in preservice teachers’ understanding of the nature of science (NOS)
as a result of four activity-based interventions that represent three instructional approaches used in a middle grades science
methods course. Ten participants’ understanding of NOS and their perceptions about the activity-based interventions were investigated.
Data were collected using open-ended questionnaires and in-depth interviews before and after the interventions. Written artifacts
and recorded group discussions were collected during the interventions. The results of this study showed that inclusion of
various approaches to teaching NOS can contribute to developing preservice teachers’ understanding of NOS. The activities
complemented each other in the teaching of the NOS components. In addition, the preservice teachers perceived that the four
interventions were helpful in improving their understanding of NOS and in preparing them for future teaching. 相似文献
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Hari P. Koirala Marsha Davis Peter Johnson 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2008,11(2):127-138
The purpose of this paper is to share a performance assessment task and rubric designed to assess secondary school mathematics
preservice teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge and skills. The assessment task and rubric were developed in collaboration
with five education faculty, four arts and sciences faculty, and four high school teachers over a period of one year. Over
this period, the group met more than 15 times and designed an assessment task and rubric to measure secondary school preservice
teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge and skills. The assessment task and rubric were piloted at the end of the year and
extensively revised using the pilot data. The redesigned task and rubric were successfully carried out in the second and subsequent
years. Other teacher education programs can benefit from this assessment of teacher candidates’ pedagogical content knowledge
and skills. 相似文献
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Christine Lotter Jonathan Singer Jenice Godley 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》2009,20(6):553-582
This study describes the influence of a secondary science methods program on secondary science preservice teachers’ views
and enactment of nature of science and inquiry-based instructional practices. Built into the structure of this program were
three cycles of practice teaching and reflection in which the preservice teachers focused on key pedagogical ideas in classroom
settings with middle and high school students. The nine secondary preservice teachers improved both their understanding and
enactment of inquiry and nature of science throughout the program period. This study provides evidence of the importance of
incorporating multiple low-stakes practicum experiences that are closely tied to methods course goals that are highly scaffolded
through both methods instructor and cooperating teacher support and tied to analytic self-reflection. 相似文献
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Using Scientists and Real-World Scenarios in Professional Development for Middle School Science Teachers 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Middle school science teachers were involved in a problem-solving experience presented and guided by research scientists.
Data on the teachers’ perspectives about this professional development and any impact it may have had on their teaching practices
were collected through interviews, surveys, and classroom observations. The findings show that the professional development
experience was positive, although one concern expressed by teachers was their lack of understanding of the scientists’ vocabulary.
Using scientists and real-world scenarios was shown to be an effective strategy for encouraging middle school teachers to
teach science as a process and help them strengthen their science content understanding. 相似文献
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Inquiry-based Instruction with Archived, Online Data: An Intervention Study with Preservice Teachers 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
This mixed methods study described preservice teachers’ conceptions of tides and explored the efficacy of integrating online
data into inquiry-based instruction. Data sources included a multiple-choice assessment and in-depth interviews. A total of
79 participants in secondary, middle, and early childhood teacher education programs completed the multiple-choice assessment
of their baseline knowledge of tides-related concepts. A sub-group of 29 participants also was interviewed to explore their
understanding of tides in more detail before instruction. Eighteen of those 29 teachers participated in the instruction, were
interviewed again after the instruction, and completed the multiple-choice assessment as a posttest. The interview data sets
were analyzed via a constant comparative method in order to produce profiles of each participant’s pre- and post-instruction
conceptual understandings of tides. Additional quantitative analysis consisted of a paired-sample t-test, which investigated the changes in scores before and after the instructional intervention. Before instruction, all participants
held alternative or alternative fragments as their conceptual understandings of tides. After completing the inquiry-based
instruction that integrated online tidal data, participants were more likely to hold a scientific conceptual understanding.
After instruction, some preservice teachers continued to hold on to the conception that the rotation of the moon around the
Earth during one 24-hour period causes the tides to move with the moon. The quantitative results, however, indicated that
pre- to post-instruction gains were significant. The findings of this study provide evidence that integrating Web-based archived
data into inquiry-based instruction can be used to effectively promote conceptual change among preservice teachers. 相似文献
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Mary Wong Siew Lian 《Research in Science Education》1998,28(3):337-352
This study used concept map content analysis and interviews to gain insights into the knowledge organisation and knowledge
processing of pre-service teachers. Forty-eight preservice teachers of elementary science from a teachers’ training college
in Sarawak, Malaysia, participated in this study. Correlations between achievement and five concept map characteristics showed
that there were significant positive correlations (p<.01) between achievement and: the number of appropriate links; the average number of appropriate concepts per cluster; and,
the hierarchy score of subjects’ concept maps, and significant negative correlations (p<.01) between achievement and: the number of inappropriate links; and, the average number of inappropriate concepts per cluster.
Interviews with high-achievers and lowachievers revealed that there were differences in the way they processed knowledge during
concept mapping. The high-achievers were more thorough than were the low-achievers in cognitive processing of knowledge, taking
time to make sense of concepts, sort and group concepts, form relevant links between concepts, and organise concepts hierarchically.
Active cognitive processing of knowledge seems to be related to more complex, well-integrated cognitive structures for the
material learned. 相似文献
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Given the high attrition rate of beginning science teachers, it is imperative to better prepare science preservice teachers,
so that they can be successful during the early years of their teaching. The purpose of this study was to explore science
preservice teachers’ views of themselves as a future teacher, in particular their hopes and fears for science teaching and
the experiences that help to shape their possible selves. Employed were qualitative methods, which included open-ended surveys
and face-to-face interviews. Eleven preservice teachers who enrolled in a secondary science teacher preparation program participated.
Findings showed six categories of future selves with the most frequent category being for effective/ineffective science teaching.
When their hoped-for and feared selves were not balanced, participants articulated more fears. Regarding the primary influence
in shaping their hopes and fears, diverse past experiences related to teaching and learning appeared to be more salient factors
than science teacher education program. Given the enriched understanding of the science preservice teachers’ perceptions,
we provided suggestions for science teacher educators. 相似文献
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Feral Ogan-Bekiroglu Hatice Akkoç 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2009,7(6):1173-1199
The purposes of this study were to determine preservice physics teachers’ instructional beliefs and to investigate the relationship
between their beliefs and practices. The theoretical framework was based on the combination Haney & McArthur’s (Science Education, 86(6):783–802, 2002) research and Ford’s (1992) motivation systems theory. A multicase study design was utilized for the research in order to focus on a belief–practice
relationship within several examples. Semistructured interviews, observations, and preservice teachers’ written documents
were used to collect data. Results showed that most preservice teachers held instructional beliefs aligned with constructivist
philosophy. Some of the preservice teachers’ beliefs were consistent with their practices while some of them presented different
practices from their beliefs in different placements. 相似文献
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The purpose of this study was to assess the development and changes in preservice science teachers' subject matter and pedagogy knowledge structures as they proceeded through a professional teacher education program. Twelve secondary preservice science teachers were asked to create representations of their subject matter and pedagogy knowledge structures periodically (four times spanning the entirety of their subject-specific teacher education program) and participate in a videotaped interview concerning the eight knowledge structure representations immediately following student teaching. Qualitative analyses of knowledge structure representations and transcribed interviews within and between subjects were performed by one of the researchers and “blindly” corroborated by the other two researchers. Initial knowledge structure representations were typically linear and lacked coherence. Both types of knowledge structure representations were highly susceptible to change as a consequence of the act of teaching. Although there was some overlap between subject matter and pedagogy knowledge structures, they were reported to exert separate influences on classroom practice, with the pedagogy knowledge structure having primary influence on instructional decisions. Furthermore, the complexity of one's subject matter structure appeared to be a critical factor in determining whether the structure directly influences classroom practice. 相似文献
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Valarie L. Akerson Cary A. Buzzelli Jennifer L. Eastwood 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》2012,23(2):133-157
This study explored preservice teachers’ views of their own cultural values, the cultural values they believed scientists
hold, and the relationships of these views to their conceptions of nature of science (NOS). Parallel assignments in a foundations
of early childhood education and a science methods course required preservice teachers to explore their own cultural backgrounds
and their perceptions of the cultural backgrounds of scientists. The Schwartz Values Inventory was used to measure preservice teachers’ personal cultural values and those they perceived of scientists. The Views of Nature of Science version B questionnaire and interviews assessed teachers’ conceptions of NOS. Copies of student work were collected and sought for
themes indicating how preservice teachers perceived scientists’ cultural values and how those perceptions changed over time.
We found that from the beginning to the end of the semester, preservice teachers perceived fewer differences between their
own cultural values and those they perceived scientists held, though they did not change their own cultural values. We found
that preservice teachers’ NOS conceptions improved, and that they were related to both their cultural values and those they
perceived scientists held. Preservice teachers who indicated the fewest differences between their own cultural values and
those they perceived scientists held the most informed conceptions of NOS. 相似文献
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Helena P. Osana Guy L. Lacroix Bradley J. Tucker Chantal Desrosiers 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2006,9(4):347-380
The objective of this study was to examine the nature of preservice teachers’ evaluations of elementary mathematics problems using the Mathematical Tasks Framework (MTF), a model designed to discriminate among tasks according to their cognitive complexity. We also tested the relationship between mathematics content knowledge and problem length on the preservice teachers’ evaluations. Twenty-six undergraduate students enrolled in an elementary mathematics methods course at a large urban university were introduced to the MTF and cognitive complexity during a class lecture and were subsequently required to sort 32 mathematics problems according to the framework. Results demonstrated that overall, the preservice teachers had more difficulty accurately classifying problems considered to represent high levels of cognitive complexity compared to problems that were less complex. Those with strong mathematics content knowledge, as measured by a standardized test, were able to sort the problems more accurately than those with weaker content knowledge. Two open-ended items assessing content knowledge were not related to sorting performance. Finally, the preservice teachers were influenced by the surface characteristic of task length; the data indicated that the teachers tended to label short problems as less cognitively demanding and long problems as more so. Implications for preservice professional development include an increased emphasis on mathematics content knowledge as well as expert modeling of the identification of deep conceptual principles at the heart of the mathematics curriculum. 相似文献
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Gabriel J. Stylianides Andreas J. Stylianides George N. Philippou 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2007,10(3):145-166
There is a growing effort to make proof central to all students’ mathematical experiences across all grades. Success in this goal depends highly on teachers’ knowledge
of proof, but limited research has examined this knowledge. This paper contributes to this domain of research by investigating
preservice elementary and secondary school mathematics teachers’ knowledge of proof by mathematical induction. This research
can inform the knowledge about preservice teachers that mathematics teacher educators need in order to effectively teach proof to preservice teachers. Our analysis is based
on written responses of 95 participants to specially developed tasks and on semi-structured interviews with 11 of them. The
findings show that preservice teachers from both groups have difficulties that center around: (1) the essence of the base
step of the induction method; (2) the meaning associated with the inductive step in proving the implication P(k) ⇒ P(k + 1) for an arbitrary k in the domain of discourse of P(n); and (3) the possibility of the truth set of a sentence in a statement proved by mathematical induction to include values
outside its domain of discourse. The difficulties about the base and inductive steps are more salient among preservice elementary
than secondary school teachers, but the difficulties about whether proofs by induction should be as encompassing as they could
be are equally important for both groups. Implications for mathematics teacher education and future research are discussed
in light of these findings.
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Kristin L. Gunckel 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》2011,22(1):79-100
This paper reports on one preservice teacher’s use of the Inquiry-Application Instructional Model (I-AIM) to plan and teach
an instructional sequence on photosynthesis to 5th-grade students. Analysis of the preservice teacher’s planned and enacted
instructional sequences and interviews shows that the preservice teacher was successful in leveraging the conceptual change
but not the inquiry aspects of the I-AIM. The mediators of this preservice teacher’s use of the I-AIM included her approach
to teaching science, the curriculum materials she had available, and the meanings she made of the underlying frameworks. Understanding
the mediators of preservice teachers’ uses of instructional models can inform teacher educators’ approaches to supporting
preservice teachers in using instructional models for organizing science instructional sequences. 相似文献
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The purpose of this study was to examine the experiences of preservice elementary teachers in a content-specific field-based
experience with elementary science specialists. Data collected from electronic discussions, interviews, and observations in
the field revealed preservice teachers experienced a wide range of instructional and assessment strategies in specialists’
classrooms, but failed to generalize aspects of the specialist model of science instruction to traditional models for delivery
of science instruction at the elementary level. Implications for supporting preservice teachers’ learning to teach science
through participation in a field experience with specialists are discussed. 相似文献
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This study explored the influence of university-based teacher education courses on preservice teachers as they engaged in the field-based portion of their preparation. Forty-two preservice teachers contributed reflective writings about the successes and challenges they faced during field experiences in light of knowledge and skills learned during their university-based coursework. Participants’ self-reflective writings were coded and analyzed for emerging themes that cut across all responses. The results indicated a shift from concerns about performance of teaching tasks in the classroom to concerns about the performance of students in terms of learning. This shift was consistent with a goal of the preservice program, namely, helping preservice teachers focus on student learning. 相似文献
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Jacqueline Leonard Joy Barnes-Johnson Scott Jackson Dantley Charles Kimber 《The Urban Review》2011,43(1):124-150
This paper reports on a study of elementary preservice teachers’ inquiry-based practices, their efficacy beliefs, and the
role beliefs had on two preservice teachers’ practices in urban classrooms. Results show inquiry-based practices can be cultivated
through field-based experiences and preservice teachers’ efficacy beliefs, as it relates to practice in urban settings, are
malleable. Specifically, personal efficacy beliefs about teaching science improved or were sustained for one cohort of preservice
teachers. However, beliefs about students’ ability to learn science, that is outcome beliefs, were less stable. The results
of two case studies show that science content knowledge was a factor in preservice teachers’ inquiry-based practices. However,
why preservice teachers’ beliefs about student learning declined is less clear. More research is needed, along with follow-up
data on teacher induction, to learn how preservice teachers’ beliefs impact urban students’ science education. 相似文献