One Course Is Not Enough: Preservice Elementary Teachers' Retention of Improved Views of Nature of Science

Autor/inn/en	Akerson, Valarie L.; Morrison, Judith A.; McDuffie, Amy Roth
Titel	One Course Is Not Enough: Preservice Elementary Teachers' Retention of Improved Views of Nature of Science
Quelle	In: Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 43 (2006) 2, S.194-213 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-4308
DOI	10.1002/tea.20099
Schlagwörter	Scientific Principles; Science Teachers; Preservice Teachers; Methods Courses; Elementary School Science; Preservice Teacher Education; Surveys; Interviews; Pedagogical Content Knowledge; Retention (Psychology); Higher Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Science; Teacher; Teachers; Science teacher; Wissenschaft; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Methodisch-didaktische Anleitung; Lehramtsstudiengang; Lehrerausbildung; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Pädagogische Kompetenz; Merkfähigkeit; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen
Abstract	This study examined the views, and the retention of these views, of 19 preservice elementary teachers as they learned about nature of science (NOS). The preservice teachers participated in a cohort group as they took a science methods course during which they received explicit reflective instruction in nature of science. Through Views of Nature of Science version B (VNOS-B) surveys and interviews it was found that most preservice teachers held inadequate ideas of nature of science prior to instruction, but improved their views after one semester of instruction in the science methods course. However, 5 months after instruction, the graduate preservice teachers were again interviewed and it was found that several of the students reverted back to their earlier views. The results are interpreted through Perry's scheme, and implications and recommendations for elementary science teacher education are made. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10