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ERIC Number: EJ1310905
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021-Feb
Pages: 10
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: EISSN-2576-6767
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An Analysis of the Effect of Long-Term Professional Development on Teacher Engineering Self-Efficacy and Its Impact on Classroom Instruction
Crawford, Christina; Obenland, Carrie; Nichol, Carolyn
Journal of STEM Outreach, v4 n1 Feb 2021
Pre-college engineering education has gained traction in U.S. schools over the past twenty years. This growth is evident with engineering emerging as a crosscutting discipline in the Next Generation Science Standards. However, the scarcity of professional development (PD) for K-12 teachers who want to teach engineering and the few PD opportunities with the characteristics shown to improve teacher learning, i.e., contact time, long-term support, and follow-up, suggest a need for new and innovative PD offerings for K-12 teachers. We developed a 45-hour graduate course specifically for K-12 teachers to incorporate engineering into their classrooms and evaluated the effect of this long-term PD on K-12 teaching engineering self-efficacy. Additionally, this study looked at how the participants translated the course into their teaching practices. Forty-one in-service teachers participated either in a 2018 or 2019 semester-long course that combined nanotechnology content and Project-Based Learning pedagogy. Pre-post measures using Teaching Engineering Self-Efficacy Scale revealed significant gains in both cohort teachers' self-efficacy. Teachers found the course effective in building their technical skills and providing beneficial PD. This study's significant positive outcomes indicate that the course analyzed serves as a pre-college engineering education PD model.
Journal of STEM Outreach. PMB 0367, 230 Appleton Place, Nashville, TN 37203. e-mail: jstemoutreach@vanderbilt.edu; Web site: https://www.jstemoutreach.org/
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education; Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
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Identifiers - Location: Texas (Houston)
Grant or Contract Numbers: EEC1449500