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How Do Beginning Primary School Teachers Cope with Science? Toward an Understanding of Science Teaching Practice.
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Appleton, Ken – Research in Science Education, 2003
Analyzes the ways in which some beginning primary school teachers cope when faced with teaching science. Examines aspects of a group of beginning primary teachers' science teaching practices in order to better understand the basis of their practice. Finds that activities that work have a close relationship with science Pedagogical Content…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Knowledge Base for Teaching
Problem Solving in Science Lessons: How Students Explore the Problem Space.
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Appleton, Ken – Research in Science Education, 1995
Examined how elementary students in three classes using different teaching strategies, presented with discrepant event problems in science, begin the problem-solving process by exploration of the problem space. Because of the constraints imposed by each teaching strategy, none of those used was considered entirely satisfactory. Appendix contains…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Intermediate Grades