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Juuti, Kalle; Lavonen, Jari; Salonen, Visajaani; Salmela-Aro, Katariina; Schneider, Barbara; Krajcik, Joseph – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2021
We present teacher-researcher partnership (TRP) as a way of fostering teachers' professional learning. Teachers' participation as research group members is an essential aspect of the partnership. Teachers and researchers share the same goal, which is to improve their understanding of and enhance students' engagement in science. Project-based…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Researchers, Faculty Development, Teacher Researchers
Menon, Deepika; Azam, Saiqa – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2021
The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate preservice elementary teachers' science teacher identity development during their participation in the field-based science methods course and a year after. Grounded within the Feiman-Nemser's thematic framework of learning to teach, this study utilized a case study approach aimed to examine…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Instruction, Cross Cultural Studies, Preservice Teacher Education
Olson, Joanne K.; Tippett, Christine D.; Milford, Todd M.; Ohana, Chris; Clough, Michael P. – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2015
This article provides a description of science teacher education policy in Canada and the USA. We focus on qualifications and procedures to obtain an initial teaching license, requirements for license renewal, and trends in our respective countries. In both countries, science teacher education is the responsibility of the province or state, rather…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Teacher Education, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries
Aydeniz, Mehmet; Southerland, Sherry A. – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2012
This study explored American high school and middle school science teachers' attitudes toward the use of standardized testing for accountability purposes, their justification for the attitudes they hold and the impact of standardized testing on their instructional and assessment practices. A total of 161 science teachers participated in the study.…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Testing, Standardized Tests, Program Effectiveness
Smith, M. Cecil; Darfler, Anne – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2012
US educators express concern that students are turning away from the study of science and have little interest in pursuing science careers. Nationally, science achievement scores for 8th graders are unchanged since 1996, but 12th graders' scores have significantly decreased. A shortcoming of education reform efforts is lack of attention to…
Descriptors: Science Careers, Teacher Characteristics, Science Achievement, Standardized Tests
Crippen, Kent J. – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2012
Using a case study method, the experiences of a group of high school science teachers participating in a unique professional development method involving an argue-to-learn intervention were examined. The participants (N = 42) represented 25 different high schools from a large urban school district in the southwestern United States. Data sources…
Descriptors: Evidence, Teacher Characteristics, Professional Development, Science Instruction
Coleman, Julianne M.; McTigue, Erin M.; Smolkin, Laura B. – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2011
The purpose of this study was to obtain data on United States K-5 elementary school teachers' self-reported instructional practices with graphical representations. Via an electronic survey, 388 elementary teachers, from throughout the US, reported about their teaching of the interpretation and the production of graphics within science. The main…
Descriptors: Graphs, Elementary School Teachers, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
Koch, Janice; Appleton, Ken – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2007
This study describes an elementary science model of professional development through mentoring by university science education professors working with teachers at a private elementary school in a regional city in Queensland, Australia. A cross-cultural collaboration involving professors from the United States and Australia resulted in the socially…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Science Education, Faculty Development