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50 Years of ERIC
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Evaluating Science Education Reform via Fourth-Grade Students' Image of Science Teaching
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Yilmaz, Hulya; Turkmen, Hakan; Pedersen, Jon E. – Science Education International, 2008
The purpose of this study was to investigate fourth-grade students image of current science teaching by using a Draw-A-Science-Teacher-Test Checklist (DASTT-C), and give a glance whether the new restructured science education reform in Turkey is implemented successfully or not. Fifty-five (34 girls and 21 boys) fourth-grade students from three…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Science Education, Grade 4
Making the Invisible Visible: The Oklahoma Science Project.
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McCarty, Robbie; Pedersen, Jon E. – Science Education International, 2002
Reports that teachers in preservice education programs still view the teaching of science much in the same traditional ways as our predecessors. "The Oklahoma Science Project (OSP) Model for Professional Development: Practicing Science Across Contexts" will build discourses and relationships that can be extended across contexts to establish…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Science Instruction, Science Projects
Experience Is the Best Teacher: An International Study of Episodic Memory in Elementary Science Teacher Preparation.
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Thomas, Julie; Pedersen, Jon E. – Science Education International, 2000
Elementary school science teachers experience long histories of stereotypical science learning activities that impact the way they understand science and their teaching methods. Examines the perceptions of preservice elementary teachers as reflected in drawings of themselves teaching in various international settings. (Contains 18 references.)…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Science Education, Teacher Attitudes