Teachers Learn about Computers in Physics Education

Pre-service Physics Teachers and Physics Education Research

Training pre-service teachers requires, among other things, content knowledge, pedagogical skills and pedagogical content knowledge. Teacher preparation programs have little, if any spare time to add more courses/activities to their program. However, I argue in this paper that we, as educators, must enhance the amount of physics education research in our pre-service physics teacher training pro...

[Perceptions of Portuguese teachers about sex education].

OBJECTIVE To assess perceptions and attitudes regarding sex education among middle and high school teachers in Portugal. METHODS A study comprising 371 middle and high school teachers, both female and male, was conducted in Portugal in February and March 2006. Data was collected through snowball technique. The questionnaire was made up of two parts: the first collected data on demographics, c...

Resource letter CPE-1: Computers in physics education

Can Computers Learn Faster?

Ever since computers were invented, mankind wondered whether they might be made to learn. In the field known as data mining, text categorization has been extensively studied by the machine learning community, as it is a classic example of supervised learning by machines. In supervised learning, computers learn from a categorization function which is calculated using the information from the lab...

Pre-service teachers’ views about their mathematics teacher education modules

How to cite this article: Gierdien, F. (2012). Preservice teachers’ views about their mathematics teacher education modules. Pythagoras, 33(1), Art. #134, 10 pages. http://dx.doi. org/10.4102/pythagoras. v33i1.134 This article reports on the views of intermediate and senior phase pre-service teachers (PSTs) enrolled in mathematics education modules that attempt to teach both content and pedagog...