Objective. : The aim of the study was to evaluate the knowledge of Physical education (PE) teachers in Chennai regarding tooth avulsion and its emergency management. Materials and methods: The study was conducted among 131 Physical education teachers from randomly selected schools in Chennai using selfadministered questionnaires. Results: A total of 131 PE teachers, in which 120(91.6%) male tea...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: The aim of this cross-sectional study was to evaluate the knowledge and attitude of school teachers regarding root canal therapy (RCT) in Kerman, Iran. METHODS: 403 teachers participated in this study (49.9% were female and 46.9% were male). Data collection was performed by a researcher-made questionnaire. After checking the validity and reliability of the questionnaire, it ...

This report focuses on a research project that combines three aspects of a curriculum concerning teachers’ planning, teachers’ classroom practice, and their students’ statistical knowledge. The theoretical framework and methodology will be sketched. Next, the planning and classroom practice of four statistics teachers will be outlined. Finally, the report documents the knowledge and beliefs con...

Knowledge sharing is a complex behavior. To show this complexity and ways of improving it, the intermediary role of attitudes, cognitive norms, and motivation seem to be important when considering the interaction between this complex behavior and personality traits. To show this relationship, a sample of 357 teachers from among all 570 high school teachers in Birjand was selected and then giv...

This study examines a national sample of 1127 computer science teachers who teach algorithms and programming in upper secondary education; it measures their knowledge with respect to three key domains as described by the TPACK framework: technology, pedagogy, content, and the combination of these areas. According to the results in the TPACK subscales, teachers state that their knowledge is betw...

This paper illustrates consideration of multiple facets of mathematics teacher knowledge through interviews, demonstrates how teachers have different knowledge profiles, and discusses the implications for professional development. This study focuses on interviews with eight teachers, which were analyzed using Ball, Thames, and Phelps’ (2008) framework of teacher knowledge, assigning knowledge t...

The purpose of this study is to investigate pre-service teachers’ technological, pedagogical and content knowledge (TPACK) in Turkey. By using the “Survey of Pre-service Teachers’ Knowledge of Teaching and Technology” developed by Schmidt et al. (2009), the study sought to determine if significant differences could be found in pre-service teachers’ perceptions of TPACK when examined by gender, ...

This study investigated the impact of Iranian EAP teachers’ familiarity with or knowledge of alternative assessment (AA), teaching experience, academic degree and gender on their assessment literacy. To this end, 106 EAP teachers (74 males and 32 females) holding PhD degree (N=77) or MA/MSc degree (N=29) in different fields of study selected based on convenience sampling, participated in the st...

In an efort to understand why recent initiatives to promote learnercentred pedagogy in science teaching made a little change in the actual teaching practices of science teachers, this study explored pre-service science teachers’ beliefs about science knowledge and their teaching practices. Six pre-service science teachers were interviewed to explore their beliefs. Moreover, lessons taught by pr...