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ERIC Number: EJ661382
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2002
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ISSN: ISSN-0047-2395
Factors Contributing to Preservice Teachers' Discomfort in a Web-Based Course Structured as an Inquiry.
Spector, Barbara S.; Burkett, Ruth S.; Steffen, Cherry O.
Journal of Educational Technology Systems, v30 n3 p293-310 2001-2002
Reports on a qualitative emergent design study of a preservice teacher's Web-enhanced course on science, technology, and society interaction. Highlights include intellectual scaffolding needed to develop understanding through open-ended inquiry; students' discomfort; paradigm shifts in science education and distance education; metacognition; and grounded theory. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Distance Education, Inquiry, Metacognition, Preservice Teacher Education, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Science and Society, Science Education, Student Attitudes, Web Based Instruction
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Design Research; Grounded Theory; Paradigm Shifts