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Wahbeh, Nader; Abd-El-Khalick, Fouad – International Journal of Science Education, 2014
This study (a) assessed the influence of an integrated nature of science (NOS) instructional intervention on inservice secondary science teachers' understandings, retention of those understandings, and their NOS instructional planning and practices; and (b) examined factors that mediated the translation of teachers' NOS understandings into…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Secondary School Science, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Abd-El-Khalick, Fouad; Akerson, Valarie – International Journal of Science Education, 2009
This study assessed the influence of training in, and use of, metacognitive strategies on the development of prospective elementary teachers' views of nature of science (NOS). Participants were 49 students (92% female) enrolled in two sections of an elementary science methods course. The sections were randomly assigned to an intervention group and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Science, Methods Courses, Teacher Education Curriculum
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BouJaoude, Saouma; Salloum, Sara; Abd-El-Khalick, Fouad – International Journal of Science Education, 2004
The purposes of this study were: to compare students' performance on conceptual and algorithmic chemistry problems; to investigate the relationships between learning orientation, formal reasoning, and mental capacity and students' performance on conceptual and algorithmic problems; and to investigate interactions among learning orientation, formal…
Descriptors: Grade 11, Logical Thinking, Chemistry, Comparative Analysis