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Direct linkAntonio García-Carmona; Granada Muñoz-Franco; Ana M. Criado; Marta Cruz-Guzmán – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
Basic science process skills (SPSs) constitute a key dimension of the scientific competence that should be developed from an early age. Therefore, preservice elementary teachers (PETs) who are preparing to teach science should have a sufficient mastery about it. This study presents a questionnaire that allows gradual levels of performance in SPSs…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Science Education, Preservice Teachers, Foreign Countries
Reinoso Tapia, Roberto; Delgado-Iglesias, Jaime; Fernández, Itziar – International Journal of Science Education, 2019
In this paper, we analyse the conceptual and procedural difficulties that university students of the Primary Education Degree have about respiratory physiology. To carry out this study a questionnaire was designed in order to assess the knowledge of these future teachers before and after studying the first subject of natural sciences of the…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Knowledge Level, Undergraduate Students, Misconceptions
Guisasola, Jenaro; Almudi, Jose M.; Zuza, Kristina – International Journal of Science Education, 2013
This study examined engineering and physical science students' understanding of the electromagnetic induction (EMI) phenomena. It is assumed that significant knowledge of the EMI theory is a basic prerequisite when students have to think about electromagnetic phenomena. To analyse students' conceptions, we have taken into account the fact that…
Descriptors: Scientific Literacy, Scientific Concepts, Questionnaires, Interviews
Garcia-Mila, Merce; Andersen, Christopher; Rojo, Nubia E. – International Journal of Science Education, 2011
The present study examines the mutual interaction between students' writing and scientific reasoning among sixth-grade students (age 11-12 years) engaged in scientific inquiry. The experimental task was designed to promote spontaneous record keeping compared to previous task designs by increasing the saliency of task requirements, with the design…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Inquiry, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Science
Garcia-Carmona, Antonio; Criado, Ana Maria – International Journal of Science Education, 2009
The present article presents a didactic proposal oriented to teaching notions of semiconductor physics in secondary education. The methods and the results of a pilot study designed to analyse the effectiveness of a teaching sequence on the topic are also described. The subjects were 60 students, aged 14-15 years, of a secondary school in Seville,…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Physics, Cooperative Learning, Foreign Countries
Saez, Maria J.; Nino, Angela Gomez; Carretero, Antonio – International Journal of Science Education, 2008
The rapid growth of biotechnology knowledge during the past decades has made it necessary to rethink the contents of the school curriculum and has provoked a consideration of the ethical and social issues related to the use of biotechnological applications. With the financial assistance of the European Union, the European Initiative for…
Descriptors: Biotechnology, Student Attitudes, Social Values, Science Curriculum
