Pre-Service Teachers Conceptual Understanding in Space Science

Pre-service teachers’ procedural and conceptual knowledge of fractions

The study examined pre-service elementary teachers and newly accepted secondary non-math and science major students at a university. The study examined weaknesses of students in conceptual and procedural understanding of fractions. It also examined whether there were differences in math fractional knowledge for both groups. The study found students’ weaknesses were in solving word fraction prob...

TPACK for Pre-service Science and Mathematics Teachers

................................................................................ Error! Bookmark not defined. CHAPTER ONE .......................................................................................................................1 Science, Mathematics and ICT ............................................................................................1 1.

Running head : PROSPECTIVE SCIENCE TEACHERS ’ UNDERSTANDING 1 Prospective Science Teachers ’ Understanding of Science and Engineering Practices

Narrative journal experience of pre-service teachers in Practicum course

The purpose of this phenomenological study was to examine eight teacher students’ experiences in using the reflective narrative journal in the process of their Practicum.  Specifically, this study focused on capturing the essence of the experiences related to reactions, feelings and thoughts about the reflective narrative journal entries in Practicum process. Qualitative analysis revealed that ...

A metacognitive strategy for training preservice teachers: collaborative diagnosis of conceptual understanding in science

Instructional models for pre-service teachers usually are split between content courses and pedagogical courses and the learners are expected to develop the pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) on their own during their practical experience in teaching. Metacognitive strategies are often used in the pedagogical courses, but not in the content courses. This study investigated how the use of metac...