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ERIC Number: EJ520758
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1996
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-1090-185X
An Investigation of Preservice Teachers' Science Process Skills and Questioning Strategies Used during a Demonstration Science Discovery Lesson.
Downing, Jan E.; Gifford, Vernon
Journal of Elementary Science Education, v8 n1 p64-75 Win 1996
Investigates preservice elementary teachers' science process skills and the questioning strategies used during a discovery science lesson. Results indicate that subjects with a high level of competency in the science process skills asked significantly more questions and demonstrated an increased use of divergent, high-level, and divergent/high-level questions in their teaching performance. Contains 24 references. (Author/JRH)
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Elementary Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Questioning Techniques, Science Process Skills, Science Teachers
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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